From One World Trade Center in Manhattan, this is The New Yorker Radio Hour, a co-production of the New Yorker and WNYC Studios.

Welcome to The New Yorker Radio Hour. I'm David Remnick. For nearly 40 years, the city of Belfast was synonymous with bombings, murders, and guerrilla warfare.

Police reported 56 hijackings, 17 bombings, 23 shooting

incidents, and nearly 200 attacks on the security. The conflict in Northern Ireland between

the British government and the IRA, the Irish Republican Army, ended in 1998, officially, that

is, but the troubles continued to bubble up in unexpected places.

In 2013, Patrick Raddenkief stumbled across an obituary of a woman named Dolores Price.

She was the first woman to serve as a real frontline soldier in the IRA.

She was part of that civil rights movement in the Northern Ireland in the late 1960s.

And she got radicalized.

And she ends up leading a bombing mission to England and getting arrested and going to jail and going on a hunger strike.

She helped blow up the old Bailey.

She led the mission.

And this is when she's scarcely out of her teens.

She goes toe to toe with Margaret Thatcher. Eventually Thatcher lets her out of prison. And later in her life, after the peace process, she was very disaffected.

After the troubles, Dolores Price took part in a secret oral history project. Members of the IRA were interviewed on tape about the acts of warfare and violence that they'd committed.

The tapes were sent to Boston College here in the U.S., and each record was supposed to remain sealed until the interviewee had died.

And in 2013, when Dolores Price died, it had come out that she had been involved in what was one of the most notorious incidents in the Troubles, which was in 1972.

There was a woman named Gene McConville, who was a mother of 10 and a widow, who was taken away by the IRA and disappeared.

She was killed, but her body was buried in an unmarked grave.

Her kids never knew what happened to her.

Why would she have been killed by the IRA?

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