Timewatch
Season 12 Episode 2 - The Sparks That Lit the Bonfire
6.9 ?
1982
Documentary
Examines the origins of the Troubles in Northern Ireland and reveals startling new evidence of the Irish government's crucial role in the emergence of the Provisional IRA. With the help of interviews with Irish ex-cabinet ministers and former leading members of the Republican movement, it details Dublin's funding of the IRA, why it favoured its more radical elements, and how the Irish government secretly plotted to invade Northern Ireland in 1970. Peter Taylor reports.
Episodes in Season 12
1
Allied to the Mafia
50 min
2
The Sparks That Lit the Bonfire
50 min
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3
The Stolen Child
50 min
4
The Secret File on J. Edgar Hoover
50 min
5
The Pill: Prescription for Revolution
50 min
6
Buffalo Bill
50 min
7
Special: Battle of the Bombers
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8
On Behalf of the State: Memories of Hanging
48 min
9
True Story of the Roman Arena
50 min
10
The Mother of All Battles
50 min
11
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50 min
12
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50 min
13
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90 min
14
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