The Brits, the IRA, the Lusitania, and the QE2

So the news is that the IRA used the luxury British ocean liner, the QE2, to smuggle weapons in the '70s to use against the Brits and their sympathizers holding Ireland hostageFor experts on history (and all other matters), like your beloved Wolfie, the ironies are irresistibleThe QE2 was owned by the Cunard Line, which, coincidentally, also owned the luxury passenger ship RMS Lusitania many years earlier Although ocean liner and history buffs still fight over the details and just about everything else, everybody now knows that the Lusitania was also in the business of transporting arms -- though in this case, the arms were 'smuggled' by the Brits for the Brits in World War I Read more