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The 5-Vote Defeat That Changed Ireland
In this episode of the Irish History Boys, we reflect on the harrowing 1976 UVF attack on the Golden Pheasant restaurant—a "mass murder attempt" that claimed the lives of brothers Tony and Miles O’Reilly.
We examine these senseless killings within the context of 1976’s grim violence, a year that saw the second-highest death toll of the Troubles and was defined by a "political vacuum" following the collapse of the Sunningdale Agreement.
We also discuss Seamus Mallon’s famously inaccurate 1976 forecast of power-sharing within two years—a vision that would ultimately take 22 years to become…
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