“…By the same token, veteran mobilisation also channels anger, largely understood as an umbrella of expressive emotions provoked by a perceived or real sense of injustice, betrayal or insult (Schieman, 2006: 496), towards those veterans believe are ‘reclassifying’ the past The primary outlet for their anger has been Irish republicans (i.e., Sinn Féin as the political wing of the Irish Republican Army (IRA 4 )), and, to a lesser extent, human rights groups and lawyers (Hearty, 2020) dismissed by veterans as the ‘human rights proxies of the republican movement’ (Justice for Northern Ireland Veterans, 2020). With these legacy case prosecutions ‘being driven by Irish Republicans’ (Rolling Thunder, n.d.b), they are, according to NIVM (NIVM, n.d.d) at least, part of a ‘propaganda exercise to discredit the British Government by rewriting the history of Operation Banner and to further the Nationalist cause’.…”