Brian Hanley

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

There is in a in a crisis.

It is important that people do act

do have agency, they'll do things that are, you know, sometimes that will backfire, other times will will look a lot different in later decades.

But nobody

I think in in in August nineteen sixteen nine knew what was going to happen next.

Everybody's thinking on their feet.

That what becomes the officials and the provisionals and the Irish government.

And they're also being pushed by what's happening on the ground north and south.

Yeah, and I think it also then

It it can satisfy diverse constituencies.

So if you despise Charles Sahe, as a big chunk of opinion in Southern Ireland, does because they see him as this epitome of the corrupt, you know, politician and so on.

You can also then say, and he set up the provost.

I mean, you know, when when people and when in their heads then people see car bombs in Belfast, they see devastation, which is not the way things looked in nineteen sixty nine or nineteen seventy, even when when these government ministers are talking about sending money to defence committees.

And if you are an ordered nationalist who feels the South betrayed you and you want someone to

to be the you know, you can say, Well, there were some decent politicians.

There was something.

He tried to do something.

He at least tried to send money.

There's a there's a theory which is put forward by by the defenders of of of Charles Hyde to some extent that

If the Irish government had done more, the provost would never have emerged because nationalists would have felt comfortable that there was a government that was actually sending them arms.

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