The IRAThis updated edition of the history of the IRA now includes behind-the-scenes information on the recent advances made in the peace process. Coogan examines the IRA's origins, its foreign links, the bombing campaigns, and hunger strikes. |
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Page 94
... guns were part of a consignment of 500 Thompson guns ordered from the Auto Ordnance Company , set up by Colonel Thompson in New York , on 5 April 1921. They were stored in a warehouse in the Bronx on La Fontaine Avenue , under the ...
... guns were part of a consignment of 500 Thompson guns ordered from the Auto Ordnance Company , set up by Colonel Thompson in New York , on 5 April 1921. They were stored in a warehouse in the Bronx on La Fontaine Avenue , under the ...
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... guns , ten Sten guns , a Piat anti - tank gun , a 2 - inch mortar and a Browning machine - gun . But the next morning , at Bishop's Stortford , the police , noticing a suspicious van with its rear windows obscured by strips of paper and ...
... guns , ten Sten guns , a Piat anti - tank gun , a 2 - inch mortar and a Browning machine - gun . But the next morning , at Bishop's Stortford , the police , noticing a suspicious van with its rear windows obscured by strips of paper and ...
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... guns , the lawyer's German Schmeisser sub - machine gun made its appearance as did a wide variety of revolvers , hunting guns , petrol bombs , nail bombs , hand grenades - in fact practically every device of the smaller sort which man ...
... guns , the lawyer's German Schmeisser sub - machine gun made its appearance as did a wide variety of revolvers , hunting guns , petrol bombs , nail bombs , hand grenades - in fact practically every device of the smaller sort which man ...
Contents
The Origins of the IRA | 3 |
Dilemmas of Violence and Politics | 38 |
The Triumph of Fianna Fail | 64 |
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