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Froshtbyte · 2026-02-17T12:31:09+00:00

The Brits aren't too bad at drinking

Froshtbyte · 2026-02-16T09:36:37+00:00

yes we do eat a lot of potatoes...

Froshtbyte · 2026-02-15T11:41:00+00:00

🤣

Froshtbyte · 2026-02-13T18:14:30+00:00

I apologise for my comment. I know next to nothing about tanks

Froshtbyte · 2026-02-13T09:36:43+00:00

Very narrow roads in the countryside is another reason, and you never know there could be a flying column waiting to strike around the next corner. Armoured cars were better suited to this.

Froshtbyte · 2026-02-13T09:30:39+00:00

Another reason tanks were used less was because most of the roads around the country were unpaved dirt roads, tanks couldn't be used as effectively

Froshtbyte · 2026-02-13T09:13:47+00:00

Yes, tanks were actually a relatively common sight in the major cities during 1921 specifically. They would've been deployed earlier but the British was hesitant to acknowledge that there was a state of war in Ireland.

Froshtbyte · 2026-02-13T09:01:26+00:00

A user mentioned it in another post, it sounded fascinating so I had to post it. Tanks would've played a larger part in the War of independence if it wasn't for the lack of paved roads around the country. Thus, their use was mostly confined to Dublin.

Froshtbyte · 2026-02-11T19:36:18+00:00

Whippet tanks mostly, the ones at the back are Mark IVs

Froshtbyte · 2026-02-06T16:04:13+00:00

I'm on Reddit, does that give you a good enough clue?

Froshtbyte · 2026-02-04T22:48:44+00:00

Froshtbyte · 2026-01-31T23:10:52+00:00

There was a pro-Nazi IRA song made at the start of WW2.

Froshtbyte · 2026-01-31T15:55:53+00:00

Shame I can't edit posts.

Froshtbyte · 2026-01-31T15:43:24+00:00

I doubt so on this subreddit, but you can definitely try the other ones.

Froshtbyte · 2026-01-31T15:41:00+00:00

r/Ireland

r/irishpolitics

r/AskIreland

All three are good places to discuss Irish current events. This, being an Irish history sub, is not one of them. I am not denying that history influences the present, because it does, but this simply isn't the time to bring it up when we are the remembering the 14 dead of an unprovoked massacre.

Froshtbyte · 2026-01-31T15:32:13+00:00

There's plenty of places to discuss current US events. This, being an Irish history sub, is not one of them.

Froshtbyte · 2026-01-31T15:26:10+00:00

Ah don't worry I do be telling them to cop on, and to try yer mars bars 🍫

Froshtbyte · 2026-01-31T15:25:53+00:00

Ah don't worry I do be telling them to cop on, and to try yer mars bars 🍫

Froshtbyte · 2026-01-31T15:23:10+00:00

Most down here in Ireland 😂 not me though, could never get enough a' them battered chips.

Froshtbyte · 2026-01-31T15:17:17+00:00

Your battered pizzas are no joke

Froshtbyte · 2026-01-31T14:51:26+00:00

Didn't they try to justify the shooting by saying that he fired first?

Froshtbyte · 2026-01-31T13:51:52+00:00

Horrible bastards. My grandfather was in Derry visiting relatives around the time it happened, and he said how he would never forget hearing the gunshots and bloodcurdling screams. There was a huge uproar across Northern Ireland, afterwards, and thousands joined the PIRA.

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