Foreign Agent: The IRA’s American connection

Foreign Agent Bonus Episode: The IRA’s Technical Support


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For over 100 years, Irish revolutionaries hoping to drive the British out of Ireland looked to the United States for money and support. They also looked across the Atlantic for new technology that might give them an advantage, including homemade surface-to-air missiles and even the world’s first modern submarine. In this bonus episode, we explore two cases — a century apart — which show just how far Irish republicans would go to take the war into the air and below the waves.

Further reading:

IRA, the Bombs & the Bullets: A History of Deadly Ingenuity by A.R. Oppenheimer

Hosted by Nate Lavey

Produced by Nate Lavey and Michael McCanne
Original music by Matt Huxley

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