Brian Hanley

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

and had a certain amount of influence in media and academia and therefore elements of that

view are still expressed.

You know, uh very recently Ono Malley has a book about Charles I and Desmond O'Malley, and he's not looking at it at all from a left-wing point of view, but he nevertheless makes the allegation in that that of course elements within FINA Fall in the FINAFAL government in nineteen sixty nine were funneling money towards what became the provost.

People say they they helped set up the visuals.

And then from a non-left wing point of view,

Many unionists in Northern Ireland also fervently believe that the Dublin government was centrally involved in establishing the Provisional IRA.

And their their story is is is essentially the same that, you know, that the Dublin government wanted to cause trouble in Northern Ireland, and therefore there's a whole series of events where they provide money and arms which help establish the provisionals in nineteen sixty nine, nineteen seventy.

Yes, it would.

And and the general unionist view up to the nineteen sixties had been that every government in Dublin was intent

on ultimately invading the North or or bringing an an end to partition.

But also it fitted in with a a view among unionists that civil rights had no rational basis.

So in nineteen sixty eight Bill Craig, unionist minister at Stormont, says that the civil rights movement is a republican communist conspiracy.

And he actually used that term.

And and therefore civil rights demands could be rejected because they were coming from people who were intent on destroying Northern Ireland.

Now, again you could argue

By the nineteen seventies, unionists would say there was no basis for an armed struggle in Northern Ireland.

There was no injustices that needed to be rectified by armed force.

So therefore, somebody had to establish this organization and they wouldn't have been established, they wouldn't have got off the ground without support from Dublin.

And that tallies to some extent with the the official Republican

conspiracy, you know, which is which is that it's undermined them.

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