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Thread #6774   Message #3820806
Posted By: GUEST,Jon
15-Nov-16 - 03:52 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: The Old Alarm Clock (The Dubliners)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The Old Alarm Clock (The Dubliners)
Thanks for the transcription! I've never heard of gelignite before, and so I was confused as to why anyone would be arrested for owning an alarm clock.

For anyone who find this thread in the future, the IRA were making improvised explosives from alarm clocks and gelignite (a high explosive made from a gel of nitroglycerine and nitrocellulose).