Ahead of a new RTE documentary, the Belfast Telegraph looks at the role played by Irish Americans during the Troubles
Martin Galvin (arm raised and in inset) takes part in a St Patrick’s Day parade in the US. Main image: Faolan Carey
For almost two decades, he was the public face of the IRA in the US. New York lawyer Martin Galvin was regarded as so dangerous by the authorities here that he was prohibited from entering the UK.
In August 1984 he defied the ban to appear at an anti-internment rally in west Belfast.