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The Brookeborough Raid: The IRA’s Border Campaign of the 1950s
On New Year’s Day 1957, the sleepy Fermanagh village of Brookeborough was shaken to its core by the sound of machine gun and rifle fire.
On New Year’s Day 1957, the sleepy Fermanagh village of Brookeborough was shaken to its core by the sound of machine gun and rifle fire. A botched five-minute raid on the police station ended disastrously for the IRA with two men dead, but it also provided the foundation for a myth that helped sustain the republican movement in future years.
Stephen Walker takes us back to the border campaign of 1956-62 in Stories in Sound - The Brookeborough Raid.
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