It didn't just go away. It started eroding in the 1990s. Can't mention the IRA without talking about the UVF on the other side, which was often much more brutal and less discriminant. What really started happening is in the 1980s when the world started opening up to people and became smaller, millions of younger Irish people saw that their way of life, the ways of hate, were not normal - that the world did not operate that way. As those younger people in the 1980s started to rise to more powerful positions they started pushing out the old guard, the bitter people who lived, breathed and thrived on this ongoing civil war. Those old bastards are dying off, and there aren't many left and when they die off, so does this appetite for hatred. The saddest part of The Troubles is that the vast majority of Irish people didn't care about Catholic/Protestant nonsense, they just wanted better jobs and better opportunities and didn't care for the divisions. Took a long, long time, but they won out. We will too. After most of us are gone. This vitriol, which started with Limbaugh and Gingrich, is peaking right now and it will peak awhile longer, but it will start to fade as people realize this is getting them nowhere. We're going to have to go through a few more Charlottesvilles/January 6/George Floyd moments to get there, but we will.