Rather than leaning in to what looks like nationalist anti-English racism, have you considered how other European countries behaved during the 1000 years of history you referred to?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_wars_of_religion

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rise_of_nationalism_in_Europe

More recently:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosnian_War

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_Ukraine

so were the Scottish plantations, but thats counter to the narrative.

> from the massacres of Drogheda

The civil war was utterly destructive, the scale of murder rape and pillage was astronomical. The wars of the three kingdoms were ripped apart. it wasn't until well into charles II that things settled.

look, we have a choice. We can either rake over tensions, or try and forge peace. Yes the troubles were _heinous_. the UK did nasty shit, but its not like the provos were golden angels either.

I am sorry for what the UK did. But I have no control over history, only now. We can either work together to stop another generation loose their male relatives, or slide into another civil war. Yes, we must acknowledge what happened, but we cannot let it define our collective fates.

Gerry Adams condones the murder Lord Mountbatten, and very likely ordered it. Why isn't he in jail?

Here's what they sing:

“13 dead and not forgotten, we got 18 and Mountbatten.”