This follow-up to Once Upon a Time in Iraq documents the Troubles over five episodes, through a series of personal histories. One of her “crimes”, Michael said, was to have shown mercy to a British soldier she saw lying injured in the street. It took 30 years for the IRA to admit they had murdered Jean and buried her body on a beach. Her eight youngest children were left to fend for themselves their father had recently died of cancer. Four women came to the house and marched her out. Jean McConville was abducted from her home in Belfast by the IRA in 1972. “The only memory that really sticks in my head,” he replies, “was the night she was taken away.” He is asked in this documentary if he has many memories of his mother. There are so many terrible stories in Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland (BBC Two), that it’s difficult to know where to start.
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