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FROM THE ARCHIVE: MP Tom Elliott was a member of the Ulster Defence Regiment during the Troubles. He takes us back to the areas he used to patrol, telling us what life was like back then. Video: Enda O'Dowd

If you wandered into an Irish bar late at night during the years of the Troubles, chances were you’d hear a crows’ chorus working through the repertoire of rebel songs.

Invariably somebody would stand up to give a hoarse rendition of Only Our Rivers Run Free, Mickey MacConnell’s great, plaintive ballad from 1965 bemoaning the divided island of Ireland.

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