Veteran Republican says making of access-all-areas IRA film The Secret Army was madness
A veteran republican says it was “madness” that the IRA allowed an access-all-areas film to be made about the organisation in 1972.
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A veteran republican says it was “madness” that the IRA allowed an access-all-areas film to be made about the organisation in 1972.
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