Brian Hanley

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Irish History Podcast · The Rise of the Provisional IRA: Conspiracy vs Reality · 16 Sep 2026 podcast

They're looking at the radicalism that's sweeping.

Seems to be sweeping the globe and they're saying

Well, we've got inklings of this here.

Student protests in U C D and Trinity, these housing action campaigns, the IRA are starting to burn buses during strikes and so on.

You know, is this

possible here.

So I think you have to factor in

An exaggerated fear.

Along with maybe a degree of realism too, that this works well with our constituency.

If you tell voters that the Labour Party are going to introduce abortion, which is another allegation made in nineteen sixty nine, you know, it'll put people off them and and it seems t to work.

But

Secretly, they are also very interested in the IRS.

And they're interested in the IRA, partially 'cause the IRA do have access to some weapons and that makes them a bit more dangerous than than a socialist society in

in a in a university.

And they're also aware that the IRA obviously w operate on an all Ireland basis and they don't know what they're they're gonna do next.

So in the spring of nineteen sixty nine

Peter Berry, who's a veteran civil servant, had been there since the 1930s in the Department of Justice, who'd written major reports on the IRA in the 30s, for example.

He writes two documents for the Minister for Justice analyzing what the IRA had been doing, their intervention in all these protest movements, and also then his own views on the subject.

And he said,

It is clear that the IRA are divided about these tactics and about

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