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Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland
Do Paramilitaries Lie Awake At Night?
Season 1
Episode 2
By 1972 a deeply segregated society has emerged. The violence has escalated and the British Army are constant presence. Catholic and Protestant working-class communities find themselves policed by rival paramilitary organizations.
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After decades of perpetual violence a breakthrough is reached, but at what cost?

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55:20
People live with dangerous secrets as a battle for intelligence ramps up.

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The impact of the IRA hunger strikes seen through the eyes of three women.

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When tensions between Protestants and Catholics explode, the British Army is deployed.