GUN RUNNING IN IRELAND.(Review)

Contemporary Review | April 1, 2001| | Copyright

The Arms Trial. Justin O'Brien. Gill & Macmillan. [pound]9.99 p.b. 285 pages. ISBN 0-7171-3062-2.

In May 1970 Charles Haughey and Neil Blaney were dismissed from government by the then Taoiseach, Jack Lynch, for allegedly using government monies to import arms for the I.R.A. These were the early days of the Troubles in the North where crises in Belfast and Derry threatened to unsettle the island of Ireland. The Arms crisis split the Dublin establishment and put the stability of the Republic at stake. Haughey's career was in tatters; he spent the 1970s in the ...

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