THE SCREWS had a battlecry - Get the niggers! Get the Irish!' explains Gerry Conion in Proved Innocent, his account of the story of the Guildford Four.
From the Attorney General to the arresting officers and forensic scientists, there was al conspiracy to take revenge on the Irish for the actions of the IRA.
But along with revenge there was also a desire to righten the Irish in Britain and prevent them from opening her mouths on the subject of Briar i- Ireland. =30: ticularly after an IRA action. You see the eyes of the Special Branch at Passport Control light up in anticipation when they see the Irish travel documents and resign yourself to some extra attention.
Dover never fails to disappoint. Travelling to and from are armed police scrutinising you're wearing a leather jacket jeans you've probably missed your flight.
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The Special Branch must know somerning about IKA fashion-sense that nobody else coes. Iner can not voutor us * :2 hours under the PTA for * tharge it ther Irish journalist was arrested on his way to report on a recent IRA shooting in the north of England; even Irish diplomats and TDs (MPs) are not immune from the PTA.
The Irish embassy is so inadequate at responding to this sort of racist harassment that are allowed a free hand. And they know how to This is why they are so keen on the PTA. The ordinary law may be adequate to deal with give quite the same scope for arge-scale terrorisation White skins give Irish om racist attacks and insult from drunks on the otner side of the street. But read The Sir. listen to comedians se im Davidson o: ce: stopped as Heathrow and vot sor ire
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