EPISODE · Sep 3, 2025 · 35 MIN
The Great Escapes: Inside the IRA’s Audacious Prison Escapes
from Plastic Paddy · host Steven Ellis
we begin a journey into some of the most dramatic and audacious events of the Northern Ireland conflict, a period spanning the late 1960s to the late 1990s and known to history as The Troubles. These were not just simple bids for freedom, but carefully planned and executed operations that served as a powerful tool of propaganda and a major morale boost for the Provisional Irish Republican Army, or Provisional IRA.
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we begin a journey into some of the most dramatic and audacious events of the Northern Ireland conflict, a period spanning the late 1960s to the late 1990s and known to history as The Troubles. These were not just simple bids for freedom, but carefully planned and executed operations that served as a powerful tool of propaganda and a major morale boost for the Provisional Irish Republican Army, or Provisional IRA.
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