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‘They asked for arms to defend themselves and we could not give them. They might shoot some of the English who were coming to beat them up’ - IRA veteran’s anger …
He was particularly disturbed when Taoiseach Jack Lynch dismissed two of his ministers over an alleged plot to import arms to ...
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The Secret Army: the IRA propaganda film forgotten for almost 50 years
A new BBC documentary tells how in 1972 the Irish Republican Army (IRA) allowed an American TV crew to film the inner workings of "Europe’s deadliest guerrilla force". It's "The Troubles meets a ...
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IRA leader Liam Lynch's tragic love story
The young Irish Republican Army leader died on April 10, 1923, leaving behind a local girl he'd promised to marry when hostilities had ceased Irish history is littered with tragic love stories ...