well I'm guessing you mean "in America" Irish Republicans aren't seen as romantic in say the UK.
any ways there was a time when the US was very anti-Catholic and very racist too, I'm unsure how one might hold back the seat-change in views in the US, but if you did there would be more support for both in the US, unsure if that'd "romantic" or not.
In Continental Europe too.
While it is hard to truely symphatisise with the Afrikaners, I actualy consider them more "romantic" (all the last stand and lost cause stuff).
Might have to do with the fact, that I only learned about the affair, after they lost, and so picture them as the underdogs.
Sidestory: I was around 10, when the Bosian war was in full swing and it got a lot of tv coverage in Germany. Funny is that I (and the boys my age, I remember talking too about it) were strongly pro-serbian.
The rag-tag clad, bearded young serbian paramiltiary, firing his AK into the night image, that was probably intended to vilanize them in the eyes of adult Germans was ultra-cool to us.