BIAFRA - Forgotten Mission
Fifty years ago, Nigeria was embroiled in a brutal civil war. Irish missionaries defied a cynical international cartel to save millions from starvation, becoming international media celebrities in the process.
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"A few weeks ago on TG4 there was the very fine documentary about the concertina player Noel Hill, called Aisling Ghear (Broken Dream), and last week there was another very fine documentary on TG4, Biafra - Misean Dearmadta (Forgotten Mission). I translate the two titles, as a public service, and I write about the programmes also as a public service, in the knowledge that very fine though they are, very few people will have seen them, because they were on TG4. By now the world knows that I lament the death of public service broadcasting in its superior form, whereby these outpourings of excel..."
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Fifty years ago, Nigeria was embroiled in a brutal civil war. Irish missionaries defied a cynical international cartel to save millions from starvation, becoming international media celebrities in the process.