Does the Irish Republican Army target Americans?

Answer 1

The IRA are a based on religion (a war between Catholics and protestants). It is not an issue of nationality although they do tend to have an issue with the British.... as the British are the people At Fault for the war in the first place. The IRA however are no longer active and the conflict in Northern Ireland is no longer an issue to worry about

-Well actually the Protestants vs Catholics is a minor confict in the overall picture of ousting British authority from North Ireland, it is the British are the imperialistic force that took over all of Ireland many years ago and were defeated by the Irish Republican Brotherhood who regained the south portion of Ireland however the IRA is merely a continuance of those brave men. Some Irish do not like Americans however it is Irish Americans who helped to arm and fund the IRA and the IRB during the war of independance and still do to some extent today

You are right about the 'many years ago' part .

The issue started when the Pope declared via a Papal Letter that Ireland was a possession of England . This was in 1155. It was initially ignored by the then King of England - Plantagenet Henry 2

By 1171 a Norman Leader had become a Lower King of Ireland -this threatened H2 so he went in with the Norman warriors.The 1155 letter was used as justification

A deal was done :

a) Ireland was to partitioned. Normans one area -Gaelic tribes in the other

b) He made himself Lord of Ireland

This last part had unforeseen consequences.

This title was not passed to his No1 son Richard who subsequently succeeded his father. . If Richard had have had offspring then outcomes would be very different.

In the event he gave the title to his 2nd son -John. H2 attempted to make John the King of Ireland -Thus separating England From Ireland. The Pope said No!

No body foresaw that John would ever be King of England.

John became King(1199) and retained the Lordship of Ireland title.

This was subsequently passed to future English Kings.

The net affect was that English Kings had Rights over Ireland and No balancing Responsibilities.

Ireland was mostly ignored by Future Plantagenet Kings.

That all changed in 1485 when the Plantagenet dynasty suddenly ended.

The new King H 7 was Welsh and his successor H8 was English in the true sense.

Power without Responsibility will invariably end in tears.

Such was and maybe still is the case in Ireland

Answer 2

No i don't think so because some if the IRA's children went to America and another reason was that almost half of the American's supported the old Ira and not the 1960's one