Making NORAID 🎥 Irish America And The IRA

Jamie Goldrick 🎥 The following post is some personal thoughts and reflections on NORAID (The Irish Northern Aid Committee) after nearly two years in making this documentary series with director Kevin Brannigan and RTÉ.

Over the years a lot of nonsense has been written about Noraid (Irish Northern Aid) online, usually it comes in the form of an anonymous Twitter handle confidently stating that it was Noraid that supplied the IRA with guns and arms for the struggle from America, or that Noraid only disappeared after 9/11 when Americans realised what exactly terrorism entails. Did you know that Joe Biden was also an IRA supporter?

Now also being increasingly regurgitated as AI slop, the enigma of Noraid continues to evolve and reinvent itself. Except for an academic study of Noraid by Robert Collins, a couple of paywalled journals, and an excellent Podcast called Foreign Agent by Nate Lavey and Micheal McCanne, there was a distinct lack of concrete information out there about the organisation. And it was in this vacuum that misinformation thrives.

Also not helpful to this fact, there almost seemed to be wilful forgetting or collective amnesia to Noraid’s contribution to the conflict here in Ireland. Or at best, broad references to the misguided misty-eyed Americans and their support for the Armed Struggle.

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