Brian Hanley

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

So it's it's in the winter of nineteen sixty nine you do have all kinds of people

Including members of the state forces, you know, soldiers and guardian and so on.

who think that our our job is to protect our people.

That's what they're always referred to as Nord Northern nationalists at this this point.

And and

that really the government should be doing more.

So there is that popular sense, which again unionists would expect, I suppose unionists would say, Well, this is what we think of the South anyway.

It dissipates relatively quickly.

And the government in general realizes that the key thing here is to keep the South intact and stable and that there is absolutely no prospect of us, you know

Maybe we'll come back to this because, you know, a lot of the question arises about were the South going to intervene with arms in August.

And and the government uh ultimately decides that that isn't simply not a possibility.

It's it's not a realistic choice at all.

So they step back.

And there's a perceptible, you know, cooling in in the kind of nationalist feeling among a lot of people by nineteen seventy.

And it goes up and down then.

and and really intensifies again in nineteen seventy one, seventy two and then drops back again, which is a a a debate for another day, although people have conspiratorial

you know, theories about why that happens too, you know.

But nevertheless, these facts on the ground are ultimately more important really in in what evolves north of the border.

split was coming, I think, and I think Barry was right about that, that there was widespread disenchantment among the broader Republican movement about what seemed to be this major move towards the left.

And a lot of the Republican constituency were as impacted by the idea of of how bad communism was and what would likely come with it as as other members of the public.

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