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17: Gerry Adams: The Troubles, Margaret Thatcher, and the IRA

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Jerry Adams and the Mountbatten Story

Killing Thatcher is the is the Mountbatten story. He was completely an 80-year-old retired man with his grandchild from the midst, isn't it? They had a lot of focus when they were pursuing that military strategy alongside the political strategy. If he were at any stage between when he was back then as active as he was, to when he dies, if he was at any stage to come out and say, yeah, do you know what? I was an IRA commander. It's very odd,. There's also his manner. He's this sort of genial, sort of almost professorial figure. We're not able to interview Ian Paissey to get

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