The Next One Is For You' by Berks County native Ali Watkins traces a conspiracy to send weapons to paramilitaries in Ireland.

The armed campaign of the Irish Republican Army ... In terms of understanding the role of the IRA in the Troubles, it is necessary to understand the split that occurred shortly after their ...

One-party rule by Ulster unionists, Watkins writes, left Catholics with “few jobs, poor housing and threadbare resources.” In ...

At the height of the Troubles in 1972 ... government feared cross-border attacks or an internal IRA insurrection. It was an armed police force with the dual purpose of defending the state and ...

By 1972, Cahalane was also one of the Irish Republican Army’s most successful international gunrunners, ferrying rifles and bullets from Philadelphia and its suburbs to arm guerrilla fighters in ...

“He was opposed to the search for an alternative to the armed ... IRA’s Belfast Brigade staff “probably by Martin McGuinness, I would suspect”. The author, who has written several ...

Hughes says the IRA passed a death sentence on him in 1975 after he carried out an armed robbery for personal ... republicans during Northern Ireland's Troubles. Despite extensive searches ...

Ali Watkins’s book looks closely at Conlon and Noraid in Philadelphia during the early 1970s. That city was an important ...