The Troubles: Return of the IRA (Part 3)

*Tom Holland & Dominic Sandbrook* Holland, shifting registers entirely from his Sherwood Rangers work, joins Sandbrook to cover the Provisional IRA's emergence and the violent escalation that turned the Troubles from civil rights crisis into urban warfare, including the Short Strand battle and the spiral of attacks on civilians. The British Army's role is central here, making this the most militarily relevant instalment of the series so far. 🎙 *Veterans' accounts: The Irish Bureau of Military History holds 1,773 witness statements on the Irish independence struggle and civil war (1913-1921) —