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Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland

Do Paramilitaries Lie Awake At Night?

By 1972 a deeply segregated society has emerged. The violence has escalated and the British Army are constant presence. Catholic and Protestant working-class communities find themselves policed by rival paramilitary organizations.

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