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First episode dateSeptember 7, 1977
Final episode dateDecember 15, 1979
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The problems: Rare footage of the 1972 IRA attack on QUB excavated

Feb 16,2020 6:15 am

Several people were injured in the 1972, an Explosion on the university sports hall

Rare footage of IRA members planning and carrying out a bomb attack on The Queen ' s University Belfast is documentation aired in a BBC.

Several people were injured in the 1972, an Explosion on the university sports hall on the Upper Malone Road.

The recordings of a lost American documentary, will be revealed in Tuesday's episode, a spotlight on The difficulties: A Secret History .

The re-discovered film also shows the weapons, the classes, the recruits for The Ira .

In the program, which makes it The Most violent period of The Seventies , reporter Darragh Macintyre also new revelations about The 1975 IRA ceasefire and the changes in The Ira leadership that followed.

last week, the trouble series showed previously unreleased footage of Martin Mcguinness carrying weapons and participation in a car-bomb attack in Londonderry in 1972.

IRA members allowed a secret crew to film A Number of attacks that were carried out, without masks

the images that were filmed for an American documentary, " The Secret Army . It was based on a book of the same name written by New York academic J Bowyer Bell.

The Documentary was filmed in 1972, but it disappeared after a few screenings In America .

The BBC Spotlight team tracked down some of the program makers and the discoveries made about the film, the disappearance, and later on in the series.

IRA members, a "Secret Army crew" to film A Number of attacks, which were carried out without masks.

the Two men used The Bomb in The Attack on The Queen 's University sports hall

The Documentary captured The Ira tried to shoot down a helicopter in Derry, Belfast, an IRA meeting the leadership of Seamus Twomey , who later became the organization of the chief of staff, and The Funeral of a member-Colm Keenan.

The Ira killed More Than 800 people during the duration of This Week 's episode (from 1972-78), in which the entire number of deaths increased ten-fold, from just over 200 dead, More Than 2,000.

Episode Two spotlight on the difficulties: A Secret History Tuesday, 17 are shown. September, at 21:00 BST on Bbc One Northern Ireland Bbc Four . Episode One can be viewed now on the Bbc Iplayer .



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