Maguire Seven

proper noun

A group of seven individuals who were wrongly charged with supplying explosives to the Provisional Irish Republican Army, an Irish republican terrorist organization, for use in the Guildford pub bombings of 5 October 1974 in Guildford, Surrey, England.

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Meanings

proper nounthe Maguire Seven
  1. historicalA group of seven individuals who were wrongly charged with supplying explosives to the Provisional Irish Republican Army, an Irish republican terrorist organization, for use in the Guildford pub bombings of 5 October 1974 in Guildford, Surrey, England.

Origin

All of the suspects were in the Maguire family.

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Chicago

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