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Originally Posted by Bagor
There was no IRA to speak off in the 60s. Unless you are referring to the stickies.
No-one had heard of Bobby Sands in the 70s.  |
Ok then Bernadette Devlin work for you then?
it was probably the lack of identifiable figures within the IRA that reduced their attraction to some degree, as opposed to the Black Panthers or BMG that were the darlings of the media
And the troubles were started in 68, by 69 the IRA emerged, I'm old enough to remember that era in a lefty family, the black beret and sun glasses was already a powerful image, not up with a pink PLO headscarf but steadily gaining traction.