Ireland / Éire

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/225150

I would like to learn more about Ireland and it's history, namely about the troubles, bombings, what the British were doing in there, and the anti-Irish sentiment, etc. Maybe also about it's foundations and general history.

Basically I have a friend talking to me about it, saying that the Northern Irish were terrorists and how the majority of them did not consider the British their oppressors, but simultaneously how the bombings were done to force the British government to withdraw. But I simply do not know enough about the topic, so I'd like to ask for some in-depth reading materials so I can understand the current hot-spot between the British/Irish/Northern Irish from a non-reactionary perspective.