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Podcast: Léargas: A Podcast by Gerry Adams
Episode: The Collectors Story | Smoking back in the day
Description: The Collectors StoryI have known Tom Hartley for 55 years. During that time he has given decades of service to the republican cause. He has been an organiser, a writer, a propagandist, a leader. During the anti-internment protests of the early 1970s, and then the H-Block/Armagh campaign he was in the front lineNo SmokingBack in the day my generation, or most of us, used to smoke. It was the social thing to do at that time. Gallagher’s Blues, Park Drive, Woodbine were the ‘feg’ of choice. Some shops sold t...