IRA weapons smuggled on QE2
In the early 1970s the Provisional Irish Republican Army smuggled weapons into Southampton from New York on the luxury cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth II.
It is estimated that they acquired 3,000 weapons by this route - including Armalite rifles.
The journalist Peter Taylor has studied the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Here he talks to Brendan Hughes (a former IRA commander), George Harrison (a former IRA arms procurer) and Lou Stephens (former head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's anti-IRA unit).
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