How do we remember the Troubles, 50 years on?

13 November 2025, The Tablet

Robert Nairac, a captain in the Grenadier Guards who was murdered by the IRA in 1977

BBC, ERICA STARLING

Two TV offerings revisit the 1970s in Northern Ireland and attempt to recapture the atmosphere

The events of the Irish Troubles are officially history, although their shadow still lurks in every corner of the Irish borderlands as well as in the lives of those who lived through them.

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