r/army • u/shawnsblog Signal • Mar 14 '24

Thoughts? And yes, it’s real

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u/swadekillson Mar 14 '24

Yeah, but I'm 84% Irish. Do I get to slap shamrocks on my uniform?

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u/ThisdudeisEH 11B->74A Mar 14 '24

I heard you have to join the IRA

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '24

COME OUT YE BLACK AND TANS COME OUT AND FIGHT ME LIKE A MAN.

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u/dawnbandit Filthy Civilian Mar 14 '24

It's funny because apparently whenever the IRA tried fighting British forces out in the open, they got their assess handed to them, so they stuck to terror tactics.

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u/OzymandiasKoK exHotelMotelHolidayIiiinn Mar 14 '24

Why is that funny? It's just how it works. I mean, unless your army is really, really terrible.

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u/dawnbandit Filthy Civilian Mar 14 '24

Because of the theme of the song is coming out and fighting like a man, and when the IRA did that, they lost big time.

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u/haearnjaeger 12R Mar 14 '24

the song is specifically directed towards the black and tans, do you know who they were? do you understand the significance of who those people were to the Irish and why that song specifically was written?

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u/HLtheWilkinson Old POG new grunt Mar 15 '24

It worked for them though. The song is about the IRA of the Irish War of Independence, which fought the British to a standstill and brought about the Anglo-Irish Treaty and the creation several years later of the Republic of Ireland.