BBC - Spotlight on the Troubles - A Secret History - 2 of 8

Tells the story of the spiral of Northern Ireland into violence in the late 1960s, the attempts of the British Government to get control of the situation, the growth of the provisional IRA, the murky relationship between the security forces and Loyalist paramilitaries and the long, tortuous path to to the end of the violence after almost three thousand deaths over a period of a quarter of a century of violence.

The IRA anticipated that 1972 would be their 'year of victory', only to be countered by a massive British military response in the midst of what became the bloodiest period of the conflict.

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