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by pjc50 989 days ago
50 years after the civil war, Ireland would not particularly keen to start up the random violence again.

I suspect everyone assumed normality would resume "tomorrow", for a lot of tomorrows. Which is the other reason you can't just start up the lynchings, this isn't America and you'll have to live with these people and their families on a comparatively small island.

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>Which is the other reason you can't just start up the lynchings, this isn't America and you'll have to live with these people and their families on a comparatively small island.

By this logic neither the Troubles nor the Irish Civil War would never have occurred in the first place. Yet they did.

(And the latter was more fierce than the war that forced London to acknowledge the Republic's independence.)

50 years is a looong time. I don't think that was it.