From: "Phil Payne" 

> I'm not familiar enough with the IRA to know whether they consider
> themselves Christians, but everything I ever read about them indicated
> they were Irish nationalists as opposed to e.g. agitating for the
> practice of Catholicism over Protestantism.

Read their manifesto.  Dedicated, radical communists commited to the
overthrow not only of British administration of Northern Ireland but also
the government of Eire, replacing both with a fundamental Marxist state.

Always amazed me that they got so much support from the USA.

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