What if lynch had invaded

In fact the key documents have been available to researchers since and have been written about on several occasions. See the Cedar Lounge Revolution blog. The crisis of forced all this back on the agenda and of course any army would make contingencey plans of all types. More seriously the IRA were not mentioned once. Despite the interviews with Eamonn McCann and Bernadette McAliskey there was no consideration of what was happening on the ground, organisation wise, in Derry and elsewhere.

If Irish troops had entered Newry they would have found the main streets closed off, and the RUC barracks under siege, as here again republicans had responded to orders to stretch police resources. And when it came down to it, it was the IRA to whom elements in the government turned during the autumn and winter of to aid actual, rather than hypothetical intervention. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.

You can leave a response , or trackback from your own site. That seems to be the consensus. A pity, because the resources were there to do something better. It explored the Irish advertising industry in the s and s and while it had the potential to explore something interesting the premises of the idea behind the documentary seemed to have been lets turn a popular American Dram into a documentary set in Ireland. It was very irritating… I will have to say I only got through half of it before I got fed up and switched.

RTE were clearly just jumping on the band wagon and not even in a very subtle way! There was no plan to go over the bridge in the city, i think it would have been mostly about a gesture and nothing else.

If the UN intervened, it would have been accpetable by Lynch. Joined Jan 9, Messages 8, Are we paying our TV licences to look at flights of fancy of this kind--the concept of us invading the North is fatuous in the extremeno wonder we are a laughing stock. MacO'velli Well-known member. Joined May 25, Messages 4, Endoftheworldasweknowit said:.

USER Well-known member. Joined Jan 31, Messages 10, Last edited: Aug 29, MacO'velli said:. The FCA?? You must log in or register to reply here. Similar threads.

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