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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 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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