The Troubles Quotes

“Meanwhile, the reality on the ground in the North was that the British Army was the IRA's best recruiting agent. The saturation was such that at one stage there were 2,000 soldiers billeted in Paddy Devlin's Belfast constituency alone, one to every ten voters. On a specimen Saturday night Devlin counted thirty army vehicles in the district. Soldiers moved along in groups of twenty or more, dispersed on both sides of the streets, guns at the ready. There were no police to be seen.”
― Tim Pat Coogan, The Troubles: Ireland's Ordeal 1966-1996 and the Search for Peace