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Gelignite




Gelignite was used by the Provisional IRA during the early years of their revolutionary campaign against British forces and Unionist Terrorists in Northern Ireland , but was later replaced by Semtex , a much more powerful Plastic Explosive , supplied by the Libya n government.

Unionist/ Loyalist Protestant paramilitary forces also made use of Gelignite, most notably in a series of bombings of water and electrical utility substations occurring throughout Belfast in April of 1969.