Mountbatten and the IRA

The Irish Passport

Society & Culture

4.8 • 652 Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2023

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

On the 27th of August 1979, the Provisional IRA assassinated one of the best known members of Britain's royal family as he holidayed in County Sligo. But this was just one of 25 killings that took place that day. The events of that afternoon soon came to represent a watershed in the history of Anglo-Irish relations, and a landmark moment of escalation in a Northern Ireland conflict that was now settling into what some referred to as the "Long War". Naomi and Tim unpick the wider context of this notorious episode of the Troubles, and explore how it encompassed so much more than the death of a celebrity royal. This podcast is only mad possible by our patreon supporters. If you would like to sign up to support the podcast today, and gain access to over 80 pieces of bonus content along the way, you can sign up to our patreon page now at www.patreon.com/theirishpassport.

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome to Irish Passport.
0:02.3	Let's do it.
0:03.1	Welcome to the Irish Passport.
0:04.8	I'm Tim McInerney.
0:06.0	I'm Naomi O'Leary.
0:07.0	We're friends.
0:07.7	Can you both to Naomi?
0:08.5	Anwar Fat, Tim.
0:09.9	This is your passport to Irish culture, history and politics.
0:13.2	Uh-huh.
0:13.5	I'm recording.
0:14.2	One, two, two, three.
0:16.6	Okay.
0:16.8	Okay.
0:41.8	Hi everybody. Hi, listeners, and welcome back to the Irish Passport podcast where today we Naomi are joining what seems to be the rest of the world's media in turning our attention for a moment to the
0:45.9	British Royal family once again.
0:47.6	It's so true.
0:48.5	This year has been this sort of royal frenzy and actually goes back longer than that.
0:53.3	It seems to be this sort of cluster of
0:55.0	like big royal events because the queen's husband died and then she died. And then there's all
1:00.2	these scandals around alleged crimes of Prince Andrew and lawsuits and all this. And then the sort
1:07.9	of long-running media stuff about Prince Harry and Meghan Martle and all this.
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