Voices From The Grave video

Voices From The Grave is the first of a series of accounts from key participants in the post 1968 events in the north of Ireland. Ed Moloney’s book came out earlier this year and it has been made into a TV programme by RTE. Unhappily you can’t watch it online if you live outside the…

Liam

October 28, 2010

1–2 minutes

This site does not approve of copyright infringements or any of that sort of thing and we are very disappointed that some scoundrels have made it available for download and possibly burning onto dvd. I’m confident that no readers of this site would do such a dreadful thing.

I’m hoping to have a review of the programme in the next day or two.

2 responses to “Voices From The Grave video”

Liam

October 29, 2010 at 10:31 am

In the book seperate sections are devoted to Brendan Hughes and David Ervine. The TV programme interweaves their two stories as if they were in some way similar and while that might suit the conventions of television story telling it has a political impact too. The effect is to imply that they were both doing very similar things for near identical reasons and only an accident of birth distinguished them.

However Ervine said that his father was a socialist who told Ian Paisley to “F..k off”. The son’s military prowess extended to machine gunning Catholic pubs before throwing in a bomb. He was a militant defender of the sectarian state and he was right to conclude that his side won.

By contrast Brendan Hughes was willing to engage British army foot patrols armed with only a revolver, something that even his enemy admitted took some nerve. It was also clear that at that point when the Republicans were defending the nationalist areas that their armed campaign has signficant support. One member of the occupying army told how an elderly woman prevented him from returning fire on Hughes just long enough for him to make his escape. But in the film, as in the book, it’s left for other to draw out the implications of the Bloody Friday attacks and Hughes never drew a balance sheet of the failure of the armed struggle.

That said, he emerges with a great deal more integrity than the Adams’ coterie who are out to discredit him.

http://www.nuzhound.com/articles/arts2010/oct20_Dead_men_talking__LClarke_Belfast-Telegraph.php

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Rustbelt Radical

November 3, 2010 at 10:31 pm

It’s made it to youtube! Now I have to decide whether to finish tomorrow’s school pressing school assignments are watch it now.

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