The Irish gunrunners of Philadelphia who ferried rifles to the IRA
By 1972, Cahalane was also one of the Irish Republican Army’s most successful international gunrunners, ferrying rifles and ...
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Philly gun smugglers helped the Irish Republican Army during the Troubles. A new book uncovers their operation.
Her family guessed he had fled over involvement with the Irish Republican Army. But she didn't know much ... Philadelphia-area men accused of running guns to the IRA during the most violent ...
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Remains exhumed in Co Monaghan not those of 'disappeared' IRA man Joe Lynskey
The Independent Commission for the Location of Victims' Remains confirmed the remains exhumed in Co Monaghan are not those of ...
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To neighbors, they were suburban dads. In secret, they were running an international gun smuggling ring
knew that Cahalane had welded a false bottom onto his distinctive work vehicle – and was ferrying a veritable arsenal destined for the hands of the Provisional Irish Republican Army on the other ...
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The Secret Army: the IRA propaganda film forgotten for almost 50 years
A new BBC documentary tells how in 1972 the Irish Republican Army (IRA) allowed an American ... The BBC film is "astonishing", said the Belfast Telegraph, and it may not be the end of the matter.
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On This Day: Bobby Sands, an IRA prisioner began his history altering hunger stricke
On March 1, 1981, Bobby Sands, an Irish Republican Army (IRA) prisoner in Long Kesh ... Sands was born on March 9, 1954, in Rathcoole in North Belfast, a majority loyalist area.
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Sinn Fein
Sinn Fein ("We Ourselves") was founded in 1905 and has historic links with the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), a terrorist ... of Parliament for West Belfast from 1983-1992 although ...