Belfast Celtic Part 2: sectarian and class politics in the North of Ireland since the 1960s.

Red Rosa's Spartacus League

In this episode we talk to Jack Duffin about his experience of the tumultuous politics of the Six Counties since the 1960s.
Jack is an old Official IRA member and was Best Man at the wedding of the legendary Joe McCann; here he talks about Joe and much more:
the split in the Republican movement between socialists and Catholic nationalists;
the inherently sectarian nature of the state in the North of Ireland;
the formation of the Provisional IRA;
the relationship between the British security forces and Loyalist paramilitaries from an early stage in the conflict;
the future for the Six Counties as the partitioned entity approaches its centenary year.
Some further reading:
https://www.historyireland.com/troubles-in-ni/the-che-guevara-of-the-ira-the-legend-of-big-joe-mccann/
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/paratroopers-accused-of-murdering-official-ira-man-joe-mccann-end-court-bid-to-face-jury-trial-38963474.html
https://reviews.history.ac.uk/review/915
Review of the excellent "The Lost Revolution: The Story of the Official IRA and the Workers’ Party."
https://www.bookdepository.com/Official-Irish-Republicanism-1962-1972-Sean-Swan/9781430319344
A shorter book than the above and a good concise intellectual as well as political history of the movement and the times.