Brian Hanley

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

And, you know

That's publicly being talked about, but

Again, the reality in his political history and what had went on was a lot more complicated by that point.

Yeah, and it's also I mean, in in many ways it is a myth and and it's one that, you know, Charles Hahe in particular to just to to note Rosetta Sweetman's book, because in her little profile of him, she says, you know, comes from family originally from County Derry, which is true, father in the anti treaty IRA.

And so on.

Now, Charles Hawley's father wasn't in the anti Treaty IRA.

Charles High's father was one of many Northern Republicans who supported the treaty.

Charles High's father was an officer in the Free State Army.

But a lot of people who admired him as an unreconstructed Republican would have thought his father must have been anti treaty.

But Hoy came from quite a Yeah, yeah.

But he came from quite a complex background.

And until nineteen sixty nine, he was not associated publicly with the hard line on the north.

You know, he he was very much one of the new

Wing of Fina Fall.

They sometimes call the men in the mohair suits who are very comfortable with business, very comfortable with with the the growing prosperity of the

in terms of economics, and certainly seen as

A moderniser in some ways, but also somebody who was not in the least bit interested in in the old pieties about a United Ireland.

Again, even you know

The f that Free Nefall government had gone much further than any other in terms of a kind of, you know, ending the Cold War with the North.

So it it isn't until ninety sixty four, sixty five that the

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