Abstract
By January 1980 the total number of people killed in the political violence in Northern Ireland since August 1969 had passed 2000. Of those, 327 were British soldiers. The remaining 1673 were virtually all Northern Irish men, women and children, including 230 Ulster part-time volunteer soldiers and policemen and over 1400 other civilians. At least 1000 of these were killed by the Irish Republican Army (IRA). Another 16 000 were injured.1 Out of a total population of 1½ million, more than one in every hundred, man, woman and child, was either killed or wounded by someone intending to kill or wound, using bomb, bullet or knife.
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Notes and References
Guardian reporter Simon Winchester, in In Holy Terror (London: Faber and Faber, 1974) pp. 182–4, describes a hasty retreat from an interview with provisional IRA members when a telephone call from IRA Headquarters warned them that he might be spying for the British.
War Office Record of the Rebellion in Ireland, Vol. II (London: HMSO, 1922) p. 46, quoted in Maurice Tugwell, ‘Revolutionary Propaganda and Possible Countermeasures’ (unpublished Defence Fellowship Thesis 1979, p. 233).
Maria McGuire, To Take Arms (London: Macmillan, 1973). She describes how in 1971, when she joined, they arranged for Colin Smith, of the Observer to interview her ‘as an example of the new type of middle class member the movement was attracting’ (p. 19).
I.D. Evans, ‘Public Relations Practice within the Army’ (unpublished paper, National Defence College, Latimer, 1976).
Interview with Alan Hooper recorded in his book The Military and The Media (London: Gower Press, 1983).
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Clutterbuck, R. (1983). The IRA and the Media. In: The Media and Political Violence. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-06580-6_9
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