For the Record

Northern Ireland, December 1956: A marginalized IRA launch a border campaign from the south with the aim of overthrowing the Northern State and creating a United Ireland. Paddy Joe McClean, was one of the first 32 men arrested in an attempt to curtail insurgent activity. He was not a member of the IRA nor was he ever accused of being one. However, the Northern Irish Government held him indefinitely for almost 4 years in Crumlin Road Prison, Belfast. FOR THE RECORD is the story told by his daughter some 50yrs later.