The Arms Trial - Couverture souple

O'Brien, Justin

 
9780717130627: The Arms Trial
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0717130622 ISBN 13 : 9780717130627
Editeur : Gill Books, 2000

Synopsis

In May 1970 two Irish cabinet ministers, Neil Blaney and Charles Haughey, were dismissed by the Taoiseach, Jack Lynch, for allegedly using government money to import arms for the fledgling IRA. It was the early days of the Northern Ireland troubles and the crisis in Belfast and Derry threatened to destabalize the entire island. Blaney and Haughey were subsequently charged, along with three others, with conspiring to import arms. The charges against Blaney were dropped, while Haughey and the other defendants were acquitted in October. Haughey's defence was that he was unaware that the shipment being imported through Dublin contained arms. The other defendants claimed that the entire operation had been sanctioned at the highest levels of the Dublin government. This dramatic moment in modern Irish life is now retold. The book charts the linkages between the struggle for power within the Fianna Fail cabinet and events on the streets of Northern Ireland. The Arms crisis split the Dublin establishment a nd threatened the stability of the Republic of Ireland. It nearly finished the career of Charles Haughey, who spent most of the 1970s in the political wilderness before staging a come-back to power in 1979.

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À propos de l'auteur

Justin O'Brien is Editor, Current Affairs at UTV. He lives in Belfast.

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Éditeur
Gill Books
Date d'édition
2000
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0717130622
ISBN 13 
9780717130627
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
309
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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