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[Gasometer]

I read the book a few years ago. Very good. Didn’t
know that it was made into a film. I’ll watch it now.

hopefully the show does the book justice.

The Ra were far from perfect, did some terrible things, but they were fighting against a foreign power taking control of their country.

Yes well it’s not anywhere near “in the name of the father” but it does have a viscousness about it that is unsettling

I watched a 5-6 part documentary on the Troubles in Lockdown. It was almost a day by day account from the first sectarian killings that led the Brits into Nth Ireland to keep a “peace” between the two right through to Omagh and the Good Friday deal. In the end the Brits had basically infiltrated the Provos with touts and double agents and combined with low and high tech IT, they knew when they were going to sneeze.

I think the show does little to make a distinction between the IRA and the Provisional IRA. Treats its audience with a simplistic history of the Troubles in favour of the narrative. It’s worrying when histro-dramas gloss over history because sadly the audience is too lazy to question or follow up afterwards, and it becomes their reality.

It does not paint Gerry Adams very well. At all.

 

[Val Keating]

Yes well it’s not anywhere near “in the name of the father” but it does have a viscousness about it that is unsettling

I watched a 5-6 part documentary on the Troubles in Lockdown. It was almost a day by day account from the first sectarian killings that led the Brits into Nth Ireland to keep a “peace” between the two right through to Omagh and the Good Friday deal. In the end the Brits had basically infiltrated the Provos with touts and double agents and combined with low and high tech IT, they knew when they were going to sneeze.

I think the show does little to make a distinction between the IRA and the Provisional IRA. Treats its audience with a simplistic history of the Troubles in favour of the narrative. It’s worrying when histro-dramas gloss over history because sadly the audience is too lazy to question or follow up afterwards, and it becomes their reality.

It does not paint Gerry Adams very well. At all.

Interesting. I started watching it late last night but fell asleep. I’ll give it another go tonight.

The book doesn’t paint Adams as good or bad when you consider what was going on at the time…. maybe because of my Irish heritage and upbringing I have a very biased view.