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.
Many had made new homes for themselves in Philadelphia, the U.S. city that Watkins argues held the "most aggressively Irish ... the guns that came from the city, an ArmaLite assault rifle.