The IRA? Why was it set up by Pearse, Connolly and White?

 The IRA was established in 1913 in response to unionist vigilanteeism and Carson's rabble rousing activities. In its heyday,the IRA comprised tens of thousands of people of no property.

 In those days,Irish fools were attracted to sentimental nationalism which the IRA endeavoured to combat with gritty determination and realistic if extravagant plans of action. It was nationalist politicians appeals to sentimental moralising and loyalists resort to 'country cousin' familiarity or boisterous speechifying which sustained republicans more materialist and better grounded approach.

 Always needing to be combatted by Irish thinkers and politicians is the mob mentality encouraged by the Catholic Church's foolish come-all-ye universalism.

"We are not all in this together". 

Despite a long history of common government, Ireland and England have little that unites their differing economic and financial interests.

On the streets of Dublin the IRA,after its foundation, had to deal with British soldiers tarts and unauthorised publishers who were sustained by private charities and government doles and to deal with drunken sportsmen and ex-soldiers making a nuisance of themselves.

 This pro-British coterie had their bon litterateurs and they were spies in the pay of the Dublin Metropolitan Police. 

The riffraff was schooled by old whores who wanted to marry a rich man and loose women trawling their wares around the backstreets of Dublin. 

In public affairs republicans encountered professional nuisances, the type of loose tongues who turn up at your door unexpectedly and without invitation looking for comfort, wisdom,money or something  belonging to you or a member of your family..

In my experience,two such people were Cahal M. and Paddy 'Carty',not forgetting the pro-British social workers such as Dan Blake and Free State doctors such Mc Conville...all of them with no use to either man or beast....idiots chasing after rainbows and looking for some form of deliverance from legal proceedings...

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28.8.2022

The police were quick to respond to the formation of a democratic movement and as a  consequence the IRA has had to deal with touts and informers from the beginning. 

Take note,all you followers of old-fashioned views and searchers for casuistic knowledge, that a true informer is a cipher for at least two others,the one who 'carries the gun' and a priest or clergyman. His father often brings him up to resort to the use of force in some police or military endeavour.

The alternative,the IRA's resort to force was due to what the Pope Emeritus refers to as terror and state oppression. Those attracted to republicanism are sometimes referred to by clergymen as products of an "over-strict upbringing".