IRA
This updated edition of the best-selling history of the IRA now includes behind-the-scenes information on the recent advances made in the peace process. With clarity and objectivity, 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 featuring interviews with past and present members of the organization, this is a compelling account of...
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The first edition of Irish journalist Coogan's account of the Irish Republican Army was published in 1970, and quickly became the standard reference. Through several editions he has incorporated ongoing events, and here brings the history up to 2000 and the declaration by the Army that the armed struggle had been succeeded by the political. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) New York Times The standard reference work on the subject....
AcknowledgementsIntroductionPt. IBeginnings to 19691The Origins of the IRA32Dilemmas of Violence and Politics383The Triumph of Fianna Fail644The IRA's Foreign Links925The Bombing Campaign1136Years of Disaster1327The IRA in the North1608The Years of the Curragh1919The IRA and the Nazis20210Republic and Republicans: I21811Republic and Republicans: II24412Prelude to the Border Campaign25613Splits in the Ranks27714The Border Campaign: 1956-6229715New Initiatives: 1962-70330Pt. II1969-197916The Roots of the Conflict34117The Constitutional Participants in the Drama35418The Provisional IRA - the Rebirth of a Movement36519The British Campaign38520Response to Violence39221Prison: Riots, Escapes, Unlucky Freedoms, Personalities and a Place Called Crossmaglen40222Hunger Striking: the IRA Reach Beyond the Bars41023Arms42624The Use of Torture43825Sectarian Murder44326Return to Secrecy and Discipline464Pt. III1979-198627The Ignition of the Crisis47728Five Demands and Hunger Strikes48629The Test of the Ballot Box50230Bombs in Britain and Counter-Insurgency51331Action in Ireland52232The INLA: 1980-9353433The Green Book: I54434The Green Book: II560Pt. IV1986-199335The Enemy of My Enemy is My Friend57536Gerry Adams62037Peace Comes Dropping Slow63938From Despair to Hope671App. I774App. II775Selected References777Glossary780Index of Names783General Index799
\ From the Publisher“No student of Irish history can afford to ignore this book. No scholar is likely to improve on it... A fascinating book, of the greatest possible value to us all...” —Times Literary Supplement\ “The standard reference work on the subject...” —The New York Times\ \ \ \ \ \ Times Literary SupplementNo student of Irish history can afford to ignore this book. No scholar is likely to improve on it.\ \ \ New York TimesThe standard reference work on the subject....\ \ \ \ \ Publishers WeeklyCoogan ( The Man Who Made Ireland: The Life and Death of Michael Collins ) here presents a definitive history of an organization that has been equally romanticized and vilified. Considered by many to be the legitimate successor of the Fenians, the Irish Republican Army was founded during the war of independence (1916-1922). After the treaty signing, the leadership split over its ratification, dividing the IRA into Collins's pro-treaty side and Eamon de Valera's anti-treaty forces. Coogan relates the IRA's support of de Valera and his subsequent about-face on becoming Taoiseach (Prime Minister) when he introduced the Offences Against the State Act in 1939 in response to the IRA's bombing campaign in England. Some of the most interesting parts of this book surround the events of WW II when de Valera coyly played his neutrality card in favor of the British. Coogan reminds us that the present troubles in Northern Ireland began as a civil rights campaign and did not take on a truly militant character until the events of the Bloody Sunday massacre in 1972, in which 13 unarmed marchers were killed, reviving a comatose IRA. The author relates atrocities on both sides as the IRA fought with arms, hunger strikes and funeral processions, while the British countered with prisons, torture and assassination squads. This first U.S. edition (the book was originally published in the U.K. in 1970) is updated with important information concerning the Special Air Services, a British hit-unit and the story of ``Maxwell,'' an Ulster Defense Regiment officer whose mission included the destruction of the Book of Kells. (Nov.)\ \
