{"id":853,"date":"2005-08-26T05:07:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-26T05:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.co.uk\/SU\/?p=853"},"modified":"2022-02-17T17:31:09","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T09:31:09","slug":"the-year-london-blew-up-1974-channel-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/the-year-london-blew-up-1974-channel-4\/","title":{"rendered":"The Year London Blew Up"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">htt<s>p:\/\/www.channel4.com\/<\/s>h<s>istory\/microsit<\/s>e<s>s\/Y\/year_london_blew_up\/<\/s><\/p>\n\n\n\n<center><b>The Year London Blew Up: 1974 &#8211; Channel 4\nThursday 1 September 9pm, Channel 4 (British TV)<\/b><\/center>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Year London Blew Up - 1974 (Channel 4 2005)\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AlmgQDluhk4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>From the page:<br>&#8220;What happens when a city faces a cell of fanatics with a single goal: to bring the maximum terror to the civilian population?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Militant Islamists may be the current threat, but in 1974\/5, the enemy was the Provisional IRA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Four men hiding out in London bedsits carried out over 40 separate incidents across the capital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The city and its people reeled under the impact of this sustained attack, but finally found the resolve to face the onslaught and defeat it.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I remember it well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Provisional_Irish_Republican_Army<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;According to reports from Reuters, the IRA killed almost 1,800 people&#8230; 600 civilians also died at the hands of the IRA, mostly Catholics. Many of the civilians were deliberately killed,&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">and what were our American allies doing during this? They were complicit by allowing Noraid to solicit funds using the catchphrase:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Give a dollar, buy a bullet, kill a British soldier&#8221;<br><span><br>Sept 2nd &#8211; Excellent production BTW<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channel4.com\">https:\/\/www.channel4.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.channel4.com\/history\/microsites\/Y\/year_london_blew_up\/ The Year London Blew Up: 1974 &#8211; Channel 4 Thursday 1 September 9pm, Channel 4 (British TV) From the page:&#8220;What happens when a city faces a cell of fanatics with a single goal: to bring the maximum terror to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/the-year-london-blew-up-1974-channel-4\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,8,99],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-uk","category-updated-2022"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=853"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3900,"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853\/revisions\/3900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}