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A former IRA bombmaker is forced to come out of retirement when her daughter is kidnapped and held to ransom. [81] Based on the novel by Stephen Leather. [82] 2001 Television film Shamrock and Swastika: Brendan Culleton, Irina Maldea Examination of the Irish Republican Army's collaboration with the Abwehr during World War II. [83] 2001
In 2003, the film made its region 1 DVD debut from 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment on a dual-sided disc with an anamorphic 1.66 widescreen version on side A, and a 1.33:1 full frame version on side B. This release sports the original English mono and is the US version with "The Terrorists" title and opens with the Fox logo.
The plot revolves around a member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (Pitt) who comes to the United States to obtain black market anti-aircraft missiles, but his plan is complicated by an Irish-American policeman (Ford), whom the IRA member has come to regard as family. [5] The film was released by Columbia Pictures on March 26, 1997. It ...
Over 200 people were injured in the blasts, and the bombers were immediately arrested at Heathrow Airport (the IRA is still considered a proscribed terrorist organization in the U.K.) The sisters ...
The Secret Army is a 1972 documentary film about the Provisional IRA, made by J. Bowyer Bell and Zwy Aldouby [Wikidata]. It is notable for its footage of IRA members and their activities at the height of The Troubles. [1] The film disappeared after its making, and was not released.
Blown Away is a 1994 American action thriller film directed by Stephen Hopkins and starring Jeff Bridges, Tommy Lee Jones, Forest Whitaker, Suzy Amis, and Lloyd Bridges, and follows a Boston bomb squad member pursuing an Irish bomber, who recently escaped from prison and is targeting the other bomb squad members.
A Prayer for the Dying is a 1987 thriller film about a former IRA member trying to escape his past. The film was directed by Mike Hodges, and stars Mickey Rourke, Liam Neeson, Bob Hoskins, and Alan Bates. The film is based on the 1973 Jack Higgins novel of the same name.
On 6 March 1988, three members of an IRA Active Service Unit—Daniel McCann, Mairead Farrell, and Sean Savage—were witnessed parking a car in a car park in Gibraltar; the car park was used as an assembly area for British soldiers preparing for the weekly "changing of the guard" ceremony outside the Convent (the residence of the governor of Gibraltar).