Massive uprising in NI?

What if sometime after the peace accords, there was a massive uprising of the IRA/PIRA/NIRA that rivaled early Troubles levels of combat? What would be the international effect? What would Ireland do?
 
What if sometime after the peace accords, there was a massive uprising of the IRA/PIRA/NIRA that rivaled early Troubles levels of combat? What would be the international effect? What would Ireland do?

Why would there be a Republican uprising after the peace accords? And why would it have been massive - the IRA was tiny even at its height during the Troubles?
 
I must agree. A massive uprising in NI is unlikely. The Catholic population were the minority, and the militants were a minority of those.

Let's not forget as well, as soon as this 'massive uprising' kicks off, the Protestants (particularly Paisley's possé) won't sit idly by. It's more likely to be nearly civil war rather than a one sided uprising.
 
What if sometime after the peace accords, there was a massive uprising of the IRA/PIRA/NIRA that rivaled early Troubles levels of combat? What would be the international effect? What would Ireland do?

Considering that:

-At their peak the various Republican paramilitary groups were able to draw on a couple of thousand people, tops, making a general uprising of any sort (massive or otherwise) very unlikely

-That the Good Friday Agreement was accepted by a huge margin by the people of Northern Ireland (71% for it on an 81% turnout)

-That since the aforementioned agreement there have been only a relative handful of successful attacks by dissident Republicans, growing increasingly pitiful as time goes by

This is very little likelihood of this occurring at any time between 1998 and 2012
 
It also has to be remembered that this would a slap in the face to Eire and the USA bot of home endorsed and helped negotiate the deal. You aren't going to get more than the lunatic fringe who just need an excuse for killing 'rising up'.
 
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