On Mon, 29 Aug 2016 00:37:17 -0000 (UTC), Recliner
wrote:

Clive D.W. Feather wrote:
On 28/08/2016 21:24, bob wrote:
Yup, it's hard for an outsider to make any sense of it. But at least they
don't seem to hate each other with the same murderous passion as the Shias
and Sunnis.

Perhaps you need to read up on what went on in Western Europe between 1618
and 1648.

Or Northern Ireland in much of the last century.

Not nearly the same level of hatred as between the different flavours of
Islam. Much of it was Irish nationalism, not religion anyway (how many IRA
terrorists were acting on behalf of religion?).

Wolfe Tone, often regarded as the originator of modern Irish
nationalism was a Protestant.