The Derry Brigade IRA Roll of Dishonour

The IRA “Roll of Honour” has for decades simply been a list of IRA Volunteers who were almost always ‘killed in action’ – that is, shot dead or blown up while on IRA active service.

As with everything republican, the “Roll of Honour” has also been subject of manipulation.

IRA members with more ‘pull’ or ‘influence’ could be added to the “Roll of Honour” even though they didn’t “die in action” and merely died in their beds after a long illness or dropped dead of a heart attack – the disparity was decided by well-placed friends of the more important deceased IRA volunteer.

Since the IRA is not and never was a democratic organisation, the disparity and manipulation were never protested by the obedient slaves of the cult, until recently in Derry/Londonderry where an unseemly row broke out a few years ago about the corrupted mechanism whereby names were or were not added to the Derry Brigade IRA “Roll of Honour”.

However, what that row entirely missed was that the Derry Brigade’s entire Roll of Honour should have been re-named as the “Roll of Dishonour“.

Why so?

The entire IRA organisation in the end betrayed all those young IRA men and women who lost their lives in pursuit of a United Ireland, Brits Out, Smash Stormont, ‘Saoirse 1973’ – the Derry Brigade IRA largely under the influence of IRA Army Council chief Martin McGuinness betrayed all those on the “Roll of Honour” when it decided to become an Agent of British Rule in Northern Ireland – having for years called the SDLP “Quislings” for participating in British Rule via Stormont – the IRA went even further than the SDLP ever did in not only disbanding the IRA, but in giving support to British police, army and security services operating against IRA dissidents.

The IRA consciously decided to become Quislings in pursuit of power and money.

The Derry Brigade’s Roll of Honour is now for ever The Roll of Dishonour.

Sinn Féin – the Party of Betrayal

The IRA’s leadership in the 1990s sought to achieve above all two outcomes – a guarantee of immunity from prosecution for the IRA leadership as it sought a way out of ‘armed struggle’ – a way out of failed IRA terrorism – and a general amnesty leading to the release of all of its prisoners.

The IRA leadership had concluded pragmatically that the IRA’s campaign of terrorism was failing to achieve its aims of the previous 25 years and had decided to petition the Brits for a painless Way Out.

If the IRA had a Ten Commandments during its 25 years of murders and bombings, they looked like this:

1. A British “declaration of intent to withdraw” from Ireland completely.
2. A British recognition that Only the people of Ireland and All the people of Ireland should decide the future of Ireland without outside interference, particularly from the Brits [and from the European SuperState].
3. A Withdrawal of British Armed forces to barracks pending withdrawal to Britain.
4. Release of all IRA prisoners from all forms of detention – an amnesty for those still ‘on the run’.
5. A timid, embarrassed, unclear reference to the establishment of a 32 County Socialist Republic which should not alarm the small farmers, big farmers, small entrepreneurs and large entrepreneurs [esp. American] who supported the IRA but were totally opposed to all forms of Communism aka Socialism.
6. The perpetual right of Irish people to use force of arms to oppose British interference in Irish affairs – the ‘armed struggle’ – should always be a legitimate option for Irish people, while the Irish Republican Army was and would always be the TRUE Óglaigh na hÉireann [armed forces of the Irish Republic].
7. The Irish language should be promoted and harnessed to create a sense of Irishness distinct from that diluted and polluted by Irish people who only spoke English – even if most of the IRA could not speak Irish, had never bothered to learn Irish and were never going to learn or speak Irish fluently.
8. Workers, small farmers and fishermen – and Irish cultural and political independence – were all to be protected from the ravages of the European SuperState which intended also to erase Irish Neutrality.
9. Sinn Féin – the IRA’s political front – was to be developed and promoted to its rightful place as the ultimate Republican Government of All of Ireland.
10. Stormont – the British/Unionist mini-parliament in Northern Ireland – was to be “SMASHED” while the partitionist Free State parliament – Dáil Éireann – was to be SPURNED pending its development as the rightful Republican Parliament for All Ireland under, of course, a Sinn Féin government.

As the IRA leadership sidestepped into Sinn Féin clothing with the support and blessing of the Three Governments – the British Government under Tony Blair, the Irish Government and the United States Government – it effected the total betrayal of everything that hundreds of IRA Volunteers had died for and THOUSANDS of IRA Volunteers had been imprisoned for.

Now expressing itself through Sinn Féin, the IRA leadership betrayed everything the IRA had shed blood for:

GONE was any Brit “declaration of intent to withdraw” from Ireland.

GONE was any Brit recognition that ONLY the people of Ireland and ALL the people of Ireland should decide Ireland’s future.

GONE was the legitimate right of Irish people to always wage ‘armed struggle’ while the Brits governed any part of Ireland.

GONE was the Irish Republican Army as the TRUE Óglaigh na hÉireann [armed forces of Ireland] – the IRA was to be mostly disbanded, its weapons’ dumps destroyed and its volunteers ordered to ‘stand down’.

GONE was the 25 year attempt to SMASH STORMONT – the IRA leadership and its Sinn Féin front were to surrender and enter Stormont on the British payroll – paid agents of British Rule in Northern Ireland.

GONE was the 25 year spurning of the FREE STATE partitionist parliament Dáil Éireann – the IRA leadership and its Sinn Féin front were to surrender and enter Dáil Éireann on the Free State payroll – anathema to decades of Irish Republicans.

GONE was opposition to the European SuperState and defence of Irish workers, small farmers and fishermen – with recognition of Ireland’s dependence on Britain’s armed forces for defence of Ireland’s airspace, its seafloor interests and its anti-terrorism forces in Northern Ireland.

GONE finally was any notion of the Establishment of any form of Socialist Republic – the IRA and Sinn Féin were intent on becoming the Establishment.

The IRA leadership and Sinn Féin were to fully support Britain’s police and security services in Northern Ireland as they waged war on dissident IRA forces.

Sinn Féin embodies the Greatest Betrayal of Irish Republican Aims in Irish History.

Under the IRA leadership of Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness, Sinn Féin has betrayed every single Irish Republican principle.

Sinn Féin has become a true Loyalist Party in the pay of the British Government – a true Lundy party – a position unthinkable in the 1970s and 1980s.

Vote Sinn Féin – for Dishonour, for Stormont, for Borders, for the PSNI, for MI5, for British Government of Northern Ireand and for Free State Partionist Dáil Éireann in “the South”!