Brian Hanley

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1,140 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 16 Sep

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The battening of civil rights protesters in Derry and elsewhere is shown in RT television, and most people

have televisions by the late nineteen sixties and they see this.

This had happened in the forties and thirties as well, but it's very visible now.

And

Northern radicals who travel south are talking about how they're getting a good reception from people.

You know, there is this sense that that there is a justified movement taking place.

But then when the violence happens, particularly what's seen as this, you know, the loyalist backlash and the state clampdown.

There's overwhelming popular sympathy in the South for a period with northern nationalists.

So thousands of people on the streets in Dublin and elsewhere in August nineteen sixty nine demanding the government do something.

And this popular movement, I think.

is really important because you have a government that has an overall majority is pretty comfortable, but suddenly

It's being challenged, you know, to do something about something that it's supposed to have an interest in.

It's a Fina Fall government.

They're the Republican Party.

And

You know.

For decades.

they'd paid lip service to this idea of United Ireland.

And now it's kind of been questioned, Well, what are you gonna do?

And and they don't know whether this is going to get worse or not.

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