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How far would you go to save your right to access books? I asked myself that; these people were running out of food and their lives were threatened...
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The true story of the 1972 kidnapping and murder of a mother of ten becomes the history of the conflict between Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland. Everyone knew the IRA was responsible for the kidnapping, but no one would speak up. After the uneasy Peace, IRA members were left wondering if the killings were actually acts of war, or just murder...

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How far would you go to save your right to access books? I asked myself that; these people were running out of food and their lives were threatened...
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A group of librarians faces great danger trying to save books and old manuscripts from Al Qaeda. Sounds like an Indiana Jones movie but it was real!
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A Rick Steves' travel video discussing what to see in Northern Ireland, and how the Northern Irish are still segregated despite the Good Friday Agreement of 1998.
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