Brian Hanley

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

That's been the law since the nineteen forties.

But you keep calling them the IRA and you're giving them lots of publicity.

And we'd like you to give them less.

Stop glamorizing them, basically.

So again, that's interesting in terms of

What are the arguments against

The conspiracy theory is that the IRA were so pathetic and weak that nobody cared about them anyway before August nineteen sixty nine.

But the evidence suggests that actually the powers that be in the South did see them as an irritant, certainly.

And again,

IRA had been burning foreign owned farmhouses and so on.

This was raised in the German parliament, you know.

The government are looking at Europe and saying, Well what you know, what are they going to say about us?

We wanna join the European economic community and yet we've got these armed

Gangs going around the place, burning farms.

So he and and he says this to the the the media.

So that would point towards again a degree of

of of worry about the IRA.

However, what Berry and Lynch aren't saying is that what we want is a dynamic armed IRA that's going to take the war to Britain and that's going to reunify Ireland once and for all.

Peter Berry had spent all his life trying to destroy the IRA in all its shapes and sizes.

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