The Brookeborough Raid: The IRA’s Border Campaign of the 1950s

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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.