A secret group of Irish in America - such as Danny Cahalane, pictured left with his wife, and Vince Conlon, pictured right on his wedding day, sourced guns in the US to send to the IRA in Northern Ireland
A new book details how seemingly ordinary suburban dads in Philadelphia ran an international gun smuggling ring in the 1970s, supplying arms, including American-made ArmaLites, to the IRA during the Troubles in Northern Ireland. The operation involved a network of Irish immigrants and Irish Americans, using various methods to transport guns, including hiding them in luggage on the Queen Elizabeth II and through amenable pilots.
