Episodes

  • BONUS: Full Interview with Richard Moore

    BONUS: Full Interview with Richard Moore
    Jul 16 2021
    As a mid-season bonus, I wanted to release this full interview with Richard Moore. The Richard Moore episode, called Children of the Troubles, received a lot of positive feedback and comments. But the full interview with Richard is a good bit longer than what made it into the episode. So here is the entire interview, virtually unedited. Thanks again and see you in season three.
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    1 hr and 20 mins
  • Pat Finucane: A Murder With Collusion At Its Heart

    Pat Finucane: A Murder With Collusion At Its Heart
    Jun 15 2021
    Pat Finucane was a solicitor who defended a number of high-profile republican paramilitaries. It was for this reason he was targeted and killed by loyalist paramilitaries. I may have said it before about previous episodes, but this is up there as being one of the most complicated legal cases in British history. The basic argument is that the 4 main loyalists who killed him were all informants for various branches of intelligence services and that the intelligence services knew about the plots to kill Pat and did nothing. So the question is raised... Does that make them in a sense responsible? And were these tactics known at the highest level of the British Government? That's what will be unpacked in this episode.
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    55 mins
  • Children of the Troubles: Richard Moore

    Children of the Troubles: Richard Moore
    Jun 1 2021
    Many children were killed and injured in the conflict known as the Troubles in Northern Ireland. This episode will first focus on the children who lost their lives during the conflict and then will be featuring an interview with Richard Moore, who was blinded at a young age after he was hit in the face with a rubber bullet fired by a British soldier.
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    51 mins
  • The Ballymurphy Massacre

    The Ballymurphy Massacre
    May 18 2021
    It’s August 9th, 1971 in Northern Ireland. The British Army had just launched Operation Demetrius, which was an operation aimed at completely smashing the IRA. Ultimately, the operation was a complete failure, and, in the district of Ballymurphy in Belfast, 11 people would lose their lives at the hand of British soldiers. But it would be almost 50 years later, that the families of the victims would ever get some sort of closure. This is the story of the Ballymurphy massacre.
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    33 mins
  • People of the Troubles: Dolours Price

    People of the Troubles: Dolours Price
    May 4 2021
    Dolours Price grew up in a staunchly republican family. From an early age, she joined the Provisional IRA and took part in a number of campaigns before being imprisoned and in later years turning completely against the Provisional IRA. At one stage, Dolours and her sister, Marion were two of the most infamous people in the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom.
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    29 mins
  • Why Is There Rioting In Northern Ireland In 2021?

    Why Is There Rioting In Northern Ireland In 2021?
    Apr 20 2021
    In this episode we’re going to talk a little bit about the Good Friday Agreement, what life in Northern Ireland has been like since the Agreement, the impact of Brexit, the Northern Irish Protocol, coronavirus and how all of these things culminated with the rioting that occurred in early April of 2021.
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    27 mins
  • The McGurk's Bar Bombing

    The McGurk's Bar Bombing
    Apr 6 2021
    It was a Saturday evening in the New Lodge area of Belfast. There was a jovial atmosphere in the Catholic Owned McGurk's Bar. Outside the pub, a man appeared and placed a parcel at the pub entrance and rushed back to their car before driving off. Moments later the bomb exploded. causing the whole building to collapse, killing and injuring most of the patrons inside.
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    23 mins
  • The Disappearance of Jean McConville

    The Disappearance of Jean McConville
    Mar 23 2021
    It was around 7 in the evening in the Divis Flats when there was a knock on the door of the McConville’s. The children answered the door to a number of individuals. They asked ‘where’s Jean’ and when she appeared they told her to put on a coat and they took her out into the night. They told the children that she would be back in 30 mins. That was the last time Jean McConville was seen alive. In the days following her abduction, no neighbours called over to check on the children and no investigation was ever opened up. Jean simply vanished and no one wanted to know where she’d gone.
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    37 mins