‘I wanted to just be like everybody else … Our life was living a lie all of the time about who we were …’ Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland s1e4: Loose Talk Costs Lives
‘The Irish Republican Army this morning made its most audacious and potentially most devastating attack yet on the British government. Just after 3 a.m. this morning they attempted to assassinate the prime minister, members of her cabinet and other leading Tory politicians.’ ibid. BBC news
‘The bodies of the three IRA volunteers shot in Gibraltar were taken from their homes draped in the Irish Tricolour followed by a growing procession of mourners …’ ibid.
‘Michael Anthony Stone, a 32 year old Unemployed builder, appeared in a Belfast magistrates court this afternoon charged with the murders of three people.’ ibid.
‘It was something I had to do.’ ibid.
Rather than paying protection to Loyalist paramilitaries … [and] chairman of the Gaelic football club … Reason enough for them to kill him. Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland s1e5: Who Wants to Live Like That? son re father
‘People dying on the Shankhill Road … A bar had just been sprayed … ‘and shot dead seven people’ … ‘in between more people were killed … forgotten’ … ibid.
All we want is peace.’ ibid. protest rally lady
‘The IRA has announced a ceasefire that will start at midnight tonight.’ ibid. BBC news
In August 1994 the IRA called a ceasefire. Loyalist paramilitaries followed six weeks later. ibid. caption
April 1998: ‘An historic agreement for peace in Northern Ireland has been reached in the past few minutes …’ ibid. BBC news
‘The Struggle was my life.’ ibid. woman
The Rock of Gibraltar: the last outpost for the British empire … In 1987 British Intelligence learned that the Irish Republican Army, the IRA, was planning a terrorist attack on the parade. Its target – the band. Its weapon – Semtex explosives. Its method – a car bomb. Army spotters had observed an IRA woman mingling with the crowd on several occasions. By early 1988 the British authorities were ready and waiting. On March 6th a suspicious car had been parked. Mairead: The Life and Death of an IRA Martyr aka Death of a Terrorist, 1989
The three members of this active service unit were passing a gas station on Winston Churchill Avenue when the British made their move. ibid.
The last body to be driven away was that of the young woman called Mairead Farrell … The story of her life is the story of Northern Ireland’s twenty years of violence. And of the political and moral dilemmas posed to Britain. ibid.
In 1971 the Army began rounding up some 10,000 alleged Republicans. ibid.