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IRA Smuggled Armalite Rifles on the QE2 (Ocean Liner)

Posted on March 27, 2010 by Robert Farago

The Times reports that the IRA smuggled guns and explosive from the U.S. to the U.K. aboard The Queen Elizabeth 2 (QE2) in the early seventies. “Brendan Hughes, one of the [IRA] provisionals’ first quartermasters, said he boarded Cunard’s flagship … Continue reading →

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