Sunday Bloody Sunday — how U2 responded to a grim day in Northern Ireland’s Troubles
The band adopted a title used by John Lennon’s Plastic Ono Band in a song that became a staple of their live shows ...
The incredible true story of the Irish Americans who smuggled the first ArmaLites to the IRA
David Roy speaks to US journalist Ali Watkins about her book The Next One is For You, which reveals how IRA weapons made ...
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Philly gun smugglers helped the Irish Republican Army during the Troubles. A new book uncovers their operation.
The conflict exploded into the Troubles in 1969 ... first-generation immigrants from Northern Ireland, where the violence between the IRA, British soldiers and paramilitaries loyal to the English ...
The Americans Who Ran Guns for the I.R.A.
One-party rule by Ulster unionists, Watkins writes, left Catholics with “few jobs, poor housing and threadbare resources.” In ...
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What Irish and British spies got up to during the Troubles
Gerard Lovett discusses his book Ireland's Special Branch: The inside story of their battle with the IRA, 1922–1947 Perhaps conscious of McCann’s views, Mulloy suggested to the two Germans ...
End of segregation in Northern Ireland is a long way off, report finds
More than two-thirds of parents in Northern Ireland want their children to be educated alongside those from the other ...
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'I was in the IRA but then they sentenced me to death'
A former IRA leader who plotted bank robberies and ... murdered and secretly buried by republicans during Northern Ireland's Troubles. Despite extensive searches, the bodies of four of the victims ...
Government to challenge coroner’s finding that SAS were not justified in killing IRA gang at Clonoe
The Government is to seek a judicial review of a coroner’s finding that the SAS was not justified in killing four IRA men at ...
Son of Irish prison officer shot dead by IRA writes new book
The son of a Portlaoise prison officer shot dead by the IRA has launched a new book in memory of his father. Brian Stack was ...
First look at Gillian Anderson in Channel 4’s new Northern Ireland-set period drama
Trespasses, the upcoming Channel 4 period drama starring Gillian Anderson, has released its first images. The series, based ...
The Next One is for You by Ali Watkins: Shining a light on Noraid
Ali Watkins’s book looks closely at Conlon and Noraid in Philadelphia during the early 1970s. That city was an important ...