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...Ulster's Catholic minority, Gaughan became an instant martyr. His emaciated body, enclosed in a coffin of Irish wood, with a black beret (the insigne of the I.R.A.) on top, will lie in state this week in Irish sectors of London and Manchester, as well as in Dublin. Then his corpse will be buried in County Mayo. Gaughan's death, said Malachy Foots, a spokesman for the Provisional Shin Fein, the I.R.A.'s political wing, "has been seen in Ireland in the same light as if it had been caused by a bullet from a British army...
Practically on the day this chilling book reached the public, someone with religious or political convictions detonated four car bombs in Dublin and a town to the north, killing 28 people. The event gave special interest to Author McPhee's thesis, which is that right now one fairly skilled technician, using easily obtainable equipment and information, and easily stolen uranium 235 or plutonium 239, could make a nuclear fission bomb. The bomb certainly would be small enough to fit into a Volkswagen, and perhaps into a golf...
...ugliest aspects of the bombing was that there had been no advance warning. Before the day was over, however, this had already become a less unusual characteristic of terror in Ireland. Outside a bar in the small border town of Monaghan, 80 miles north of Dublin, another bomb exploded without notice. At least five people were killed outright and 20 more wounded, most of them critically...
...Irish coast, where police found both the paintings and Rose Dugdale. She had been sought by police in connection with Irish Republican Army terrorist operations and was thus additionally charged with smuggling firearms and explosives to the I.R.A. in Northern Ireland. At one point during her arraignment in Dublin last week, Rose shouted to spectators: "The British have an army of occupation in a small part of Ireland -but not for long...
...council's release of Lennon's 17-page statement last week touched off new demands for a full parliamentary inquiry into British counterterrorist methods. A month ago, Kenneth Littlejohn, 32, a convicted bank robber, escaped from Dublin's Mountjoy prison. He set off a public clamor by claiming in a series of interviews that he had been hired by British intelligence to infiltrate the I.R.A. and stir up trouble in the Irish Republic, thereby forcing Dublin to crack down on terrorist sanctuaries. Littlejohn, who is still at large, said that he had been ordered by the British...