Once Upon A Time In Northern Ireland
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- Episode
- Episode 4 - Loose Talk Costs Lives
- Broadcast Info
- 2023 (62 mins)
- Description
- By the late 1980s, the news in Northern Ireland is a daily list of the dead. But 14 bloody days in March 1988 mark a new level of harrowing savagery. When a car reverses at speed into an IRA funeral cortege, mourners are convinced it’s another attack - a repeat of a grenade and gun strike by a lone loyalist that had killed three at an IRA funeral just days earlier. The car contains two British soldiers who are lynched and shot dead by a baying mob. The incident is captured on camera and becomes headline news.
- Genre
- History; Social Science; Religion; Politics; Government
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The Open University, "Once Upon A Time In Northern Ireland". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ou/search/index.php/prog/245291 (Accessed 09 Jan 2025)