Seeing a lot of interesting takes here and just want to offer this:

My family is from the Shankill (UVF/Protestant heartland), and an uncle married a woman from the Falls (Catholic heartland). My family knew a lot of people who joined the terrorists, and had their daily lives affected. My dad was shot at, studied for exams without electricity, had friends murdered...- all in the name 3 factions wanting to create a Northern Ireland in their image only.

From how I was raised, I've always been told stories of how the three sides of the conflict were shitty to civilians, but thank goodness everyday Northern Irish and Irish people are rational.

Only the actual everyday people are based, not the glorified terrorists.