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The IRA / Tim Pat Coogan.
LIBRA DA959 .C68 2002
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Coogan, Tim Pat, 1935-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Irish Republican Army--History.
- Irish Republican Army.
- History.
- Ireland--Politics and government--20th century.
- Ireland.
- Politics and government.
- Northern Ireland--Politics and government.
- Northern Ireland.
- Political violence--Northern Ireland.
- Political violence.
- Political violence--Ireland.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 808 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- Fully revised and updated, first Palgrave edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave for St. Martin's Press, 2002.
- Summary:
- An Updated Edition of this Unique, Best-Selling History of the IRA, now including behind-the-scenes information on the recent advances made in the peace process, The IRA provides the only objective, comprehensive history of the organization that has transformed the Irish nationalist movement during the past century. With clarity and detachment, Tim Pat Coogan examines the IRA's origins, its foreign links, bombing campaigns, hunger strikes and sectarian violence and its role in the latest attempts to bring peace to Northern Ireland. Meticulously researched and backed up by interviews with past and present members of the organization, Tim Pat Coogan's book is an authoritative and compelling account of modern Irish history.
- Contents:
- Part I Beginnings to 1969
- 1 The Origins of the IRA 3
- 2 Dilemmas of Violence and Politics 38
- 3 The Triumph of Fianna Fail 64
- 4 The IRA's Foreign Links 92
- 5 The Bombing Campaign 113
- 6 Years of Disaster 132
- 7 The IRA in the North 160
- 8 The Years of the Curragh 191
- 9 The IRA and the Nazis 202
- 10 Republic and Republicans: I 218
- 11 Republic and Republicans: II 244
- 12 Prelude to the Border Campaign 256
- 13 Splits in the Ranks 277
- 14 The Border Campaign: 1956-62 297
- 15 New Initiatives: 1962-70 330
- Part II 1969-1979
- 16 The Roots of the Conflict 341
- 17 The Constitutional Participants in the Drama 354
- 18 The Provisional IRA
- the Rebirth of a Movement 365
- 19 The British Campaign 385
- 20 Response to Violence 392
- 21 Prison: Riots, Escapes, Unlucky Freedoms, Personalities and a Place Called Crossmaglen 402
- 22 Hunger Striking: the IRA Reach Beyond the Bars 410
- 23 Arms 429
- 24 The Use of Torture 438
- 25 Sectarian Murder 443
- 26 Return to Secrecy and Discipline 464
- Part III 1979-1986
- 27 The Ignition of the Crisis 477
- 28 Five Demands and Hunger Strikes 486
- 29 The Test of the Ballot Box 502
- 30 Bombs in Britain and Counter-Insurgency 513
- 31 Action in Ireland 522
- 32 The INLA: 1980-93 534
- 33 The Green Book 544
- Part IV 1986-1993
- 35 The Enemy of My Enemy is My Friend 575
- 36 Gerry Adams 620
- 37 Peace Comes Dropping Slow 639
- 38 From Despair to Hope 671
- Ireland xxiii
- Northern Ireland 2
- Belfast 340.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [777]-779) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 0312294166
- OCLC:
- 48805645
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