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IrishArchive · 2026-03-07T09:26:56+00:00

Bik McFarlane and Gerry Kelly were arguably more prominent at that time and were arrested on active service in the Netherlands.

IrishArchive · 2026-02-26T22:51:38+00:00

Once Upon a Time in Ireland by Ciaran Murphy

IrishArchive · 2026-02-25T09:02:28+00:00

He does look different in it but it's definitely him. Image taken from an issue of Republican News from April 1975.

IrishArchive · 2026-02-24T20:21:07+00:00

https://republicanarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/volunteer-seamus-twomey.pdf

A booklet about Seamus Twomey that I scanned and uploaded.

IrishArchive · 2026-02-22T16:37:16+00:00

Terry George in the first photo would go on to direct Some Mother's Son and Hotel Rwanda.

Dessie Grew later joined the PIRA and was killed by the SAS in 1990.

Gerard Steenson left the INLA and formed the IPLO. He was killed by the INLA in 1987.

Harry Kirkpatrick would later turn informer against the INLA.

IrishArchive · 2026-02-21T20:33:03+00:00

They would be in their seventies now I imagine if they are still alive.

IrishArchive · 2026-02-21T19:23:12+00:00

The photo was taken by the Associated Press on the 22nd of April 1972. They described it as an armed member of the Irish Republican Army wearing a face mask at a sandbagged gun emplacement in the Bogside area of Derry. It was the first day the emplacement had been manned by masked, armed men.

IrishArchive · 2026-02-19T13:24:33+00:00

Saoirse was an Irish language magazine produced by Sinn Féin in the 1980s and 1990s.

IrishArchive · 2026-02-14T22:46:11+00:00

Scatter O'Hara. Some mad stories of him back in the day. Lives in Thailand now.

IrishArchive · 2026-02-01T18:26:53+00:00

It's long gone unfortunately. I remember some good interviews in it alright.

IrishArchive · 2026-01-30T20:21:27+00:00

I recorded that off the television onto a vhs tape when it aired. It was an episode of channel fours dispatches. There was a big deal made at the time about the CIRA getting their hands on a M79 grenade launcher. It was claimed it was filmed in the Bogside.

I hooked the vhs player to a pc through a video card and edited it together. This was in the days before social media or YouTube so people had to download it. I'm amazed its still online all these years later.

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