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So in the last episode, the wonderful Patrick Radnkeef, author of the multi-award winning Say Nothing, was telling us about

how Northern Ireland ignited between 1969 and 1970, how a place which had been quiet and

there had been discrimination, but it hadn't reached a boiling

point, how with the Battle of the Bogside, Molotov cocktails start to be thrown in streets

in Northern Ireland, that in Derry, London Derry, in Belfast, there is now mobs on the street,

ethnic cleansing, guns going off, and the beginning

of bombs. Patrick, do you want to tell us about how that bombing campaign begins to kick off in

1970? Well, the IRA, the provisional IRA, this sort of new offshoot, was very focused on bomb making and started

planting bombs really left and right on the theory that the business infrastructure in Northern

Ireland was itself a kind of expression of British power. And so you start getting

these bombs. I mean, loads and loads of bombs. I don't have the statistics in front of me,

but it's shocking how many hundreds of bombs every year. I have the figure. I think by the end of

1970, there'd been 153 explosions. Yeah, exactly.

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