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Tue 11 Nov 2003The society belle and the IRA shoot-out
Joe Humphreys grew up hearing the story of the day his grandaunt survived being shot in the head. Now it has become a documentary
What makes someone take up arms for a cause and be willing to kill or be killed? It's a question that troubles each generation, all the more so when the someone is a member of one's family, for then it can become literally a matter of life or death. So it is for the film-making brothers Ruán and MancháMagan, whose granny - my grandaunt - was Sighle Humphreys, republican idealist and freedom fighter.
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