Peter Taylor hooks up with the boy turned retired IRA volunteer..

The Firemen have done a sterling job in clipping telling detail from Peter Taylor’s documentary Who Won The War. You can find them all on our Facebook page. But I wanted to clip this one myself… With the possible exception of Jim Pryor, almost everyone else Taylor talks to is trying to play some contemporary angle, from the two FMs, to Tony Blair and Jackie McDonald. Sean McKinley doesn’t, and his confession of confidence and fealty to Adams and McGuinness …

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Who won the war? More importantly, who if anyone, is creating the peace?

So, I have to admit, it slipped my mind that the embargo was up already on the preview of Peter Taylor’s elegiac look on the Trouble when he asked the question few have dared to: who won the war? Now it’s everywhere it seems. This is as much an elegy on the part of a veteran journalist, a last look on the appalling vista he brought consistently brought us right throughout the troubles. There’s some interesting effects in playing old …

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