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Ireland's Long War

Ireland's Long War

By: J D
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Documenting history, strategy, operations and legacy of Ireland’s armed conflict.

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  • Robert Nairac: Britain's Dirty War in Ireland

    Robert Nairac: Britain's Dirty War in Ireland
    May 5 2025

    Few figures from the conflict known as “the Troubles” evoke more suspicion, myth, and controversy than Captain Robert Nairac. While officially commemorated as a courageous British Army officer who died gathering intelligence behind enemy lines, he is remembered very differently within the Irish republican community—not merely as a soldier, but as a central figure in Britain’s covert war in Ireland. This was a campaign not fought in open battle, but in shadow: a strategy built on collusion with loyalist paramilitaries, the deployment of assassination squads, and the systematic targeting of civilians. Read a detailed article on Ireland's Long War on Substack.
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    1 hr and 18 mins
  • Attack at Derryard: The IRA’s Final Frontal Assault

    Attack at Derryard: The IRA’s Final Frontal Assault
    Apr 21 2025

    Inside the 1989 commando-style IRA raid that stunned the British military. On Wednesday, 13 December 1989, the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) conducted an unprecedented, highly organised and lethal frontal assault on a British Army vehicle checkpoint at Derryard, near Rosslea, County Fermanagh. The attack, which resulted in the deaths of two British soldiers and injuries to several others, represented one of the most sophisticated guerrilla operations of the conflict in the North of Ireland, commonly referred to as ‘The Troubles’.
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    42 mins

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