Is the bloody past best left buried?

The late British historian Robert Kee said the one certainty about history is that nothing is certain.

Is the bloody past best left buried?

TV3’s two-part documentary, In the Name of the Republic, asked how many people were ‘disappeared’, killed by the IRA during, and after, the War of Independence, from 1921 to ’22.

I am sure there were killings like those described in the programmes: it was war.

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