Timewatch

The Sparks That Lit the Bonfire (1993x2)

: 27, 1993

The origins of the troubles in Northern Ireland and new evidence of the Irish government's role in the emergence of the Provisional IRA. With interviews with Irish ex-cabinet ministers and former leading members of the Republican movement, it details Dublin's funding of the IRA, why it favoured the more radical elements and how the Irish governement plotted to invade Northern Ireland in 1970.