• Ireland's Long War

  • By: J D
  • Podcast

Ireland's Long War

By: J D
  • Summary

  • Documenting history, strategy, operations and legacy of Ireland’s armed conflict.

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Episodes
  • Attack at Derryard: The IRA’s Final Frontal Assault
    Apr 21 2025

    Inside the 1989 commando-style IRA raid that stunned the British military. On Wednesday, 13 December 1989, the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) conducted an unprecedented, highly organised and lethal frontal assault on a British Army vehicle checkpoint at Derryard, near Rosslea, County Fermanagh. The attack, which resulted in the deaths of two British soldiers and injuries to several others, represented one of the most sophisticated guerrilla operations of the conflict in the North of Ireland, commonly referred to as ‘The Troubles’.

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    42 mins
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