The Forgotten Campaign

About This Book

In the quiet darkness of a December night in 1956, small groups of young Irish republicans crossed the border into the six counties of Northern Ireland. Armed with little more than conviction and outdated weapons, they launched Operation Harvest — a guerrilla campaign that would last six years and leave an indelible mark on the republican movement. This book tells the stories that history forgot: the teenage volunteers from rural Ireland, the families who sheltered them, and the prisoners who endured years of internment without trial in the Curragh and Crumlin Road.

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