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Provos: The IRA and Sinn Fein

Second Front

First broadcast: on BBC One CambridgeshireLatest broadcast: on BBC One Wales

In the second episode of his series looking at the history of the Irish Republican Movement, Peter Taylor traces the emergence of Sinn Fein as a political force in Northern Ireland. He looks at the hunger strikes and dirty protest in the Maze prison and the election of Bobby Sands and Gerry Adams as MPs. Show less

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