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30 Years Since The IRA Murdered Mountbatten And Paul Maxwell, In Pictures

by | 27th, August 2009
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A letter written by Lord Mountbatten to the Irish Prime Minister which is one of thousands of documents now open to the public after the thirty years, Thursday December 29, 2005. The former Earl of Burma, who was killed by an IRA bomb in 1979, had inherited Classiebawn Castle after the death of his wife. He wrote to the Taoiseach Liam Cosgrave in March 1975 to offer the castle to the state as a gesture to cement his family’s close connection with Ireland.

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