Paul Bew said at the John Hewitt Summer School last week that the Burntollet March may have been ‘the spark that lit the prairie fire’ i.e. the clash that started the Northern Ireland Troubles. He has come under flak for this on blogs. I interviewed him for the Sunday Sequence programme and – as we do – edited him fairly tightly, but here is the raw uncut interview.
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Lord Bew on Burntollet
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