BICO and Stalino-Unionism
Ideas of two Irelands have long been common. In the Provo war from 1971 to the 1990s, they were common on the nationalist side, only the Protestant Unionists were condemned by some of their characteristics as a bad Ireland, as “pro-imperialists”. They were thus condemned by the sometimes openly sectarian “left”, in the Irish National Liberation Army, members of which gunned down people at random in a Pentecostal church in Darkley, Co Armagh, in 1983. They were in fact so condemned by the Provos, whose “devils” were Unionist shibboleths. It was strange to see the Unionists as only “pro...