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| Acronym: IRA | Provisional Irish Republican Army | |An Alouette II, the type of helicopter used in the escape.]] The '''1973 Mountjoy Prison helicopter escape''' occurred on October 31, 1973, when three Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) volunteer (Irish republican)|volunteers escaped from Mountjoy Prison in Dublin, after a hijacked helicopter landed in the prison's exercise yard. The escape made headlines around the worl |