• UNDERWORLD: DUBLIN GANGLAND

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Like most of the world's urban areas, the fair city of Dublin is not immune to organised crime as shown in Underworld: Dublin Gangland.

While the streets of the Irish capital eventually proved just as susceptible to the influence of hardened crooks as anywhere else, amazingly the city was largely free of serious crime up until the late 1960s. And when the Troubles started in Northern Ireland that all changed.

In Underworld: Dublin Gangland, discover how paramilitary gangs saw the city as an easy way of funding their conflict. And where the terrorists went, other criminals soon followed, taking Dublin from armed robberies to kidnappings and bombings.

Following the history of this Irish crime wave, trace the 1980s introduction of hard drugs into the city's impoverished estates, hear about the desperate - and tragic - attempts to stop the heroin dealers taking over whole neighbourhoods and ...

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