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World Service,21 Jun 1999,4 mins

Fighting for the IRA from 1919 to 1921

My Century

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Dan Keating fought with the IRA in the War of Independence against British between 1919 and 1921. At 98, he describes buying his first gun as a teenager in Tralee, southern Ireland. Dan says there will never be peace in Ireland until the country is united.

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