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> Actually, they did, back when Ireland as a whole voted for independence. Can you point to a vote by the Irish people in favour of independence? I'm pretty s
by disgruntledphd2 4y ago
> Actually, they did, back when Ireland as a whole voted for independence.
Can you point to a vote by the Irish people in favour of independence?
I'm pretty sure you can't given that no such vote has ever taken place.
- argentier 4y agoThere's this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918_Irish_general_election https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918_Irish_general_election The IRA derived their 'legitimacy' from it.
- iso1631 4y agoThe one where the votes for unionists in Ulster outweighed nationalists 2:1?
- argentier 4y agoUlster didn't exist as a polity at the time.
- disgruntledphd2 4y agoThat's an election, not a referendum. And to be quite frank, you are probably thinking of the Provisional IRA when you put legitimacy in quotes, where as this was the original IRA, who basically have nothing in common with the Provos (as they were called when I were a lad) except the name.
- argentier 4y agoThat's an interesting debate to have, definitely.