{"id":231444,"date":"2025-07-02T07:43:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/231444\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T07:43:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:43:12","slug":"ahead-of-a-new-rte-documentary-noraid-irish-america-and-the-ira-the-belfast-telegraph-looks-at-the-role-played-by-irish-americans-during-the-troubles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/231444\/","title":{"rendered":"Ahead of a new RTE documentary, Noraid: Irish America and the IRA, the Belfast Telegraph looks at the role played by Irish Americans during the Troubles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Ahead of a new RTE documentary, the Belfast Telegraph looks at the role played by Irish Americans during the Troubles\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Martin Galvin (arm raised and in inset) takes part in a St Patrick's Day parade in the US. Main image: Faolan Carey\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/37f913cc-5c7c-47ed-8fae-64b173de0e20.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Martin Galvin (arm raised and in inset) takes part in a St Patrick&#8217;s Day parade in the US. Main image: Faolan Carey<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">In August 1984 he defied the ban to appear at an anti-internment rally in west Belfast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ahead of a new RTE documentary, the Belfast Telegraph looks at the role played by Irish Americans during&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231445,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3935],"tags":[77,39680,22306,3943,31952,11528,40401,6568,16,15,659],"class_list":{"0":"post-231444","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-gerry-adams","10":"tag-ira","11":"tag-movies","12":"tag-rte","13":"tag-sinn-fein","14":"tag-suzanne-breen","15":"tag-the-troubles","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114782523109840931","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}