| Former IRA volunteer ready to reveal
all in new TV documentary THE IRA in the 1950s had “too
many morals” according to a former volunteer.
A new documentary which tracks down gunmen from the 1950s shows one
volunteer claiming that members of the organisation had to adhere to the
Geneva Convention by carrying arms openly.
He said: “We had too many morals.
“It was often said that we couldn’t win a war we had too
many scruples.”
The Patriot Game directed by Irina Maldea is the last in a trilogy on
the Republican paramilitaries and will be broadcast on TG4 on March 28.
The previous two films were The Shamrock And The Swastika which explored
the IRA’s links to the Nazis and Tintown which looked at the internment
camp at The Curragh during World War Two.
The Patriot Game features first-hand accounts of the IRA campaign in the
1950s.
The documentary also sees a volunteer reveal that there were few links
with Sinn Féin in the Republic during the decade.
“I was never at a Sinn Féin meeting,” he said.
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