• Flax@feddit.uk
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    9 days ago

    Literally how my mum talks about the troubles in Northern Ireland

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      8 days ago

      The whole community really supported each other, all the he families came together to help each other make something special out of a bad situation. Mostly we made ANFO and molotovs, but sometimes pie and roast beef.

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        8 days ago

        It’s more like “Oh yeah, it was great craic. I was in this shop when an incendiary went off” “We got to have soldiers around for Christmas dinner!” “Sometimes I’d be playing in the garden and there’d be a soldier taking position behind our garden wall”