Cmv: the irish troubles were a black and white conflict and the catholic republicans should have just moved to the republic of ireland.:
I come from a family where my family was involved and to an extent still is involved with the troubles in Northern Ireland. While I have not been explicitly told that the IRA and Sinn Fein are evil people, I have been given a very negative view of them.
It seems to me that the IRA were blowing up the Unionists because they wanted the Republic of Ireland to have territorial expansion into Northern Ireland and them wanting to be part of Northern Ireland was blantantly false. The Republic of Ireland has more or less existed by since WW1, so moving there was not out of the question for the IRA and sympathisers.
I also think that IRA supporters should be tried as criminals who are acting against the UK government and are thus guilty of treason.