Brian Hanley

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

Northern Prime Minister Terence O'Neill and the the Southern Tok Sean Lamas actually meet.

This is the first time since partition.

But Charles Hoy entertains Harry West, who's his unionist opposite number in the Department of Agriculture at his home in Dublin.

Neil Blaney goes to Stormont, meets Bill Craig and and they're photographed together and and their meeting is about linking the motorway between North and South.

So Neil Blaney is not in Stormont complaining about what's been done to northern nationalists in nineteen sixty five.

He's behaving as a fairly you know, what was seen as as a very modernizing FINAFL administration.

But here

Personalities are important and also ambition is important because by nineteen seventy one, seventy two, the idea

of a United Ireland is is a real one again.

And there still is a popular mood in the South to do something about what's happening again by seventy one to Northern Nationalists.

So, you know, there's political mileage in becoming far more publicly Republican.

And it didn't do Charles Hohey any c harm in his career.

to have had that idea that he'd been involved in nineteen sixty nine, nineteen seventy in setting up the provost.

And you do find, you know, north of the border

A lot of northern nationalists take it at face value if they if they have to think about politicians who cared about them.

They'll say, Well, Charles Hohee and Blaney, they did they did care.

They wanted to do something.

When in actual fact there's a lot of I I would be quite cynical here about their

their motivations because both of them had been in government during the border campaign where they'd overseen internment of Republicans, for example, and and Charles High's, you know, established special criminal courts was credited by the Guardi with with really bringing the IRA's activities in the South to an end.

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