What's the money for?

I was thinking guns.

I was thinking IRA.

Need that money, Tom?

Why?

So other eight-year-olds can watch their fathers gun down in front of them.

This is for an agent, and my name is Nate Lady.

We've been telling the story of Irish Northern aid, the American support group for the IRA.

And over the years, there have been a handful of depictions of noriated television shows and in movies.

In this bonus episode, we're going to look at a few of them.

Most are bad, really laughably bad.

The clip you just heard is from the 1997 film The Devil's Own, which starred Harrison Ford as a New York City cop and Brad Pitt as an IRA gunsbuggler.

The production process was a total mess for everyone involved, and Brad Pitt even called it a piece of irresponsible filmmaking.

But still, I think that there's something to be gleaned from looking at how Hollywood imagined the American side of the troubles.

We'll get back to the Devil's Own later, but we're going to start with the NBC show, Columbus.

Columbus a favorite of mine. It was first on from 1971 to 1978, and starred Peter Falk, who I love.

He plays this shlumpy LA homicide detective who wanders around in a rumpled trench coat.

Each episode he solves a murder by bumbling about until he cracks the case.

The final episode of the seventh season is called The Conspirators.

It opens with Clive Revel, who's a New Zealand actor.

He's playing the character of Joe Devlin, who's a pretty colorful Irish writer.

At a very early age, I decided to be my own master and the servant of no one.

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