'Sir, They're Taking the Kids Indoors'
The British in Northern Ireland 1973 - 74

Ken's latest book looks at the bloody period of 1973/4 and features contributions from those who were there besides painstaking research. Once the mothers had been warned of approaching death at the hands of the 'widow maker' they would bring their offspring indoors and thus give the IRA the 'moral high ground' of not shooting their own supporters.

It would alert them to the fact that they had to be ready for something more lethal than the aimed bricks, Molotov cocktails, dead animals and dog excrement which the women of the Republican areas so charmingly saved for the optimum moment. It would herald the approach of a gunman or gunmen and the locals, especially those who revelled in the prospect of 'shooting a Brit' or adherents to the Provisionals' line of killing a soldier a day, would have their sadistic hatred sated for a day at least at the sight of British blood staining the streets.