Word: curragh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...perished for so doing. I.R.A. diehards waged terrorist bombing campaigns against Britain during the war?sometimes with Nazi help. This so threatened Irish neutrality that De Valera turned on the I.R.A. mercilessly. He had three members shot; two more were hanged, while others languished for years in the dreaded Curragh internment camp. Proudly, Ireland's Minister of Justice announced in 1947 that the I.R.A. was dead...