FinnMacCool
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I just finished reading a book 1921 by Morgan Llywelyn and I must say the Anglo-Irish war is a very interesting topic, though hardly anyone ever knows about it. I can actually claim this piece of history as a part of my own heritage as my own great great Grandfather was a member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood (later the IRA) and was deported from Ireland during the Orange Order's march where he jumped through one of their bass drums. If the first thing you think of when you think about the IRA is carbombings, Irish radicals marching with guns, and pro-IRA slogans plastered all over belfast, I think you'll be surpirsed when you read it.