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The Mandela Connection: How a Global Icon Almost Changed Northern Ireland Forever
In this episode of the Irish History Boys, we reflect on the 1976 assassination of Sinn Féin Vice President Máire Drumm, who was shot dead by loyalist gunmen while recovering from an eye operation in Belfast’s Mater Hospital.
We examine the chilling allegations that Secretary of State Merlin Rees "set her up" as a target through a series of unprecedented personal public attacks just months before her murder.
We place this high-profile killing within the context of the "collective madness" of 1976—historically the second bloodiest year of the Troubles—characterised by devastating 400-pound…
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