Word: magan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...I.R.A. was less concerned with the repression of Catholics than with partition, but the resentments stirred up in 1949 gave it fresh hope. Under an austere new leader named Tony Magan who has since retired, the army between 1951 and 1954 carried out a series of spectacular arms raids?some in the North, some across the channel in England itself. Just before Christmas 1956, the I.R.A. struck against Ulster at 117 points along or near the border...
...Archaelogists speculate that Tepe Yahya could be the "Magan" referred to as a trading center in Sumerian texts...