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Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland

It Wasn’t Like a Movie Anymore

In 1968 tensions between Catholic and Protestant communities explode after decades of relative peace. Hopes of equality are lost as a civil rights movement is suppressed. The British Army is deployed and Northern Ireland descends into conflict.

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