The lost revolution: the story of the Official IRA and the Workers’ Party

Brian Hanley and Scott Millar (Penguin Ireland, €20) ISBN 9781844881208   The front page of the September 1971 Official Republican paper The United Irishman displayed a photograph of a gunman crouched under a Starry Plough flag and silhouetted against a blazing truck. (See ‘Second glance’ on pp 46–7.) The headline read ‘Army of the People’, ... Read more

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