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Romanticising Northern Ireland’s history is a deadly mistake

4 May 2019

9:00 AM

4 May 2019

9:00 AM

For those of us who grew up in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, there is a pungent but negative sense of time travel around New IRA statements. The New IRA spokesman is a ‘T. O’Neill’ — which, you might notice, is just a consonant and some bad blood away from the old Provisional IRA spokesman ‘P.

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