“The Devil’s Own” The movie takes place during a period when the Catholic/Protestant unrest was at an all time high in Northern Ireland. The conflict is a very complicated dispute with neither side willing to come to an agreement politically. Negotiations had failed between the British government and Irish Republican Army (IRA) and the British government was determined to capture or kill the Catholic extremist who were waging a war of independents for Northern Ireland. It was the British government’s determination to keep Northern Ireland under the British control and not compromise its position that the northern territory was British soil and should remain that way. It is the political