Brian Hanley
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Irish History Podcast · The Rise of the Provisional IRA: Conspiracy vs Reality · 16 Sep 2026
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So what he wants is the IRA to split over politics into two.
weakened factions.
And he says that this has happened in the thirties when the Republican Congress split away in nineteen thirty four.
You were left with a divided Republican movement and both sections of that then were weakened.
And that's what I think Berry was hoping for.
in in nineteen sixty nine.
And Lynch is also hoping that the media will simply just, you know
play down these guys, not talk about them, refuse to call them the IRA even.
And interestingly, the only newspaper that actually goes along with that is the Irish press, which was the
Historically the FINA Fall Supporting Daily Paper, which in August nineteen sixty nine, you know, talks about the activities of an illegal organization in Belfast.
You know, which is you know, is is almost ridiculous, but it's they're actually doing what what Lynch had had said.
They tended to to to do what Fina Fall
wanted in in a lot of ways at that stage.
So there is some evidence there that the government is is interested and worried.
But on the ground, once the crisis erupts, you have a situation where the old rules don't seem to apply anymore.
So Republicans have told me that, you know, people who supported finegale, people who supported Labour, particularly in border areas,
offer to, you know, give them money.
have shotguns and so on line around the place, just turn up and say, take these, you need them.
There's a real sense that the question of of the border is coming to, you know, a final.
a finality in some way.
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