List of weapons used by the Irish National Liberation Army
List of weapons used by the Irish National Liberation Army during The Troubles (1969–1997).
Sources[]
Obtaining arms was one of the greatest difficulties faced by the INLA in its early years. Their Marxism made them beyond help from Catholic Irish-America, who had traditionally been a lifeline for funds and weapons for Irish republicans engaged in armed struggle.[1] At a time when the Provisional IRA seemed replete with Armalites, the INLA was mainly armed with shotguns, which the rank and file wryly took to calling "Costello-ites" after their leader. The INLA's main source of arms early on was from sympathizers in the Middle East, from where they imported a contingent of AK-pattern rifles in 1978 and later much larger shipments of arms via a French contact.[2]
Small arms[]
Explosives[]
Model | Image | Type | Origin | Details |
---|---|---|---|---|
IED | Improvised explosive device | Ireland | Often using Gelignite or a Soviet-made plastic explosive, possibly Semtex. | |
Molotov cocktail | Incendiary device | Ireland | ||
Various models of Chinese and Soviet-made hand grenades | Hand Grenade | Soviet Union, People's Republic of China | [29] |
References[]
- ^ English, Richard (2003). Armed Struggle: The History of the IRA. Pan Books. pp. 114–115. ISBN 0-330-49388-4.
- ^ Fortnight Magazine, Issue 195, p. 7-8. Fortnight Publications, 1983.
- ^ The Starry Plough – March/April 1999 Archived 1 July 2015 at the Wayback Machine. Page 10-11.
- ^ McDonald, Holland, Henry, Jack (2018-06-30). I.N.L.A - Deadly Divisions. Syracuse University Press. ISBN 9781842234389.
- ^ McDonald, Holland, Henry, Jack (2018-06-30). I.N.L.A - Deadly Divisions. Syracuse University Press. ISBN 9781842234389.
- ^ McDonald, Holland, Henry, Jack (2018-06-30). I.N.L.A - Deadly Divisions. Syracuse University Press. ISBN 9781842234389.
- ^ "INLA firing party using Webley at 1984 funeral".
- ^ Sunday Life 13 July 1997.
- ^ Sunday Life 12 November 1989.
- ^ McDonald, Holland, Henry, Jack (2018-06-30). I.N.L.A - Deadly Divisions. Syracuse University Press. ISBN 9781842234389.
- ^ McDonald, Holland, Henry, Jack (2018-06-30). I.N.L.A - Deadly Divisions. Syracuse University Press. ISBN 9781842234389.
- ^ McDonald, Holland, Henry, Jack (2018-06-30). I.N.L.A - Deadly Divisions. Syracuse University Press. ISBN 9781842234389.
- ^ McDonald, Holland, Henry, Jack (2018-06-30). I.N.L.A - Deadly Divisions. Syracuse University Press. ISBN 9781842234389.
- ^ McDonald, Holland, Henry, Jack (2018-06-30). I.N.L.A - Deadly Divisions. Syracuse University Press. ISBN 9781842234389.
- ^ Oppenheimer, A. R. (2018-06-30). IRA: The Bombs and The Bullets. A History of Deadly Ingenuity. Irish Academic Press. ISBN 978-0-7165-2895-1.
- ^ McDonald, Holland, Henry, Jack (2018-06-30). I.N.L.A - Deadly Divisions. Syracuse University Press. ISBN 9781842234389.
- ^ The Starry Plough, June 1982 at the Wayback Machine (archived 2019-08-02)
- ^ McDonald, Holland, Henry, Jack (2018-06-30). I.N.L.A - Deadly Divisions. Syracuse University Press. ISBN 9781842234389.
- ^ McDonald, Holland, Henry, Jack (2018-06-30). I.N.L.A - Deadly Divisions. Syracuse University Press. ISBN 9781842234389.
- ^ McDonald, Holland, Henry, Jack (2018-06-30). I.N.L.A - Deadly Divisions. Syracuse University Press. ISBN 9781842234389.
- ^ Oppenheimer, A. R. (2018-06-30). IRA: The Bombs and The Bullets. A History of Deadly Ingenuity. Irish Academic Press. ISBN 978-0-7165-2895-1.
- ^ McDonald, Holland, Henry, Jack (2018-06-30). I.N.L.A - Deadly Divisions. Syracuse University Press. ISBN 9781842234389.
- ^ ALLISON MORRIS (23 May 2019). "Gun used at INLA funeral featured in BBC Stacey Dooley documentary". Retrieved 31 December 2020.
- ^ McDonald, Holland, Henry, Jack (2018-06-30). I.N.L.A - Deadly Divisions. Syracuse University Press. ISBN 9781842234389.
- ^ Fitzmaurice, Maurice (11 June 2019). "Machine gun and cash seized during operation against INLA". BelfastLive. Retrieved 10 July 2021.
- ^ McDonald, Holland, Henry, Jack (2018-06-30). I.N.L.A - Deadly Divisions. Syracuse University Press. ISBN 9781842234389.
- ^ McDonald, Holland, Henry, Jack (2018-06-30). I.N.L.A - Deadly Divisions. Syracuse University Press. ISBN 9781842234389.
- ^ Archived 25 February 2013 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ McDonald, Holland, Henry, Jack (2018-06-30). I.N.L.A - Deadly Divisions. Syracuse University Press. ISBN 9781842234389.
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