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The Arms Crisis of 1970 - The Plot that Never Was (Paperback)
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The Arms Crisis of 1970 - The Plot that Never Was (Paperback)
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The number one Irish Times bestseller. 'An original and textured
history of one of the most controversial and misunderstood episodes
of modern Irish history' Diarmaid Ferriter. The arms crisis of 1970
came about when two Irish cabinet ministers, Charles Haughey and
Neil Blaney, alongside an army officer and other figures, were
accused by Taoiseach Jack Lynch of smuggling arms to the IRA in
Northern Ireland. The criminal prosecution that followed, the Arms
Trial, was a cause celebre at the time; while it resulted in the
acquittal of all the accused, the political crisis it generated was
one of the major events of late twentieth-century Irish history. In
the fifty years since, myth and controversy has surrounded the
trial and its aftermath. Was the country really on the brink of a
bloody civil war involving North and South? Did the two Ministers
sacked by Lynch help generate the bloody campaign of the
Provisional IRA - or were they set up by the Taoiseach as fall guys
for an arms plot that was unofficially authorized but always
deniable by Lynch? Was there, as is often claimed, a kind of coup
in preparation that Lynch's prompt action foiled? A great deal of
astonishing new evidence has been uncovered by Michael Heney in his
research for this book, raising serious questions about Lynch and
his relationship with future Taoiseach Charles Haughey. The book
also contains the first comprehensive investigation into how the
arms trial prosecution was mounted, and how the jury came to their
verdict of acquittal. Heney's meticulous scholarship challenges
much of the conventional wisdom about these sensational events. The
Arms Crisis of 1970 is a major contribution to our understanding of
a pivotal moment in postwar Irish history.
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