IRA

Name: IRA
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ISBN: 9780312294168

ISBN-10: 0312294166

ISBN-13: 9780312294168

Edition: 2002 (Revised)

Authors: Tim Pat Coogan

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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 modern Irish history.

Book details

List price: $42.99
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Publication date: 1/5/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 864
Size: 6.22" wide x 9.19" long x 1.82" tall
Weight: 2.112
Language: English

Tim Pat Coogan was editor of the Irish Press and is now recognised as Irelandï¿½s leading popular historian of the twentieth century. He is based in Dublin, Ireland.



Acknowledgements


Introduction



Beginnings to 1969



The Origins of the IRA



Dilemmas of Violence and Politics



The Triumph of Fianna Fail



The IRA's Foreign Links



The Bombing Campaign



Years of Disaster



The IRA in the North



The Years of the Curragh



The IRA and the Nazis



Republic and Republicans: I



Republic and Republicans: II



Prelude to the Border Campaign



Splits in the Ranks



The Border Campaign: 1956-62



New Initiatives: 1962-70



1969-1979



The Roots of the Conflict



The Constitutional Participants in the Drama



The Provisional IRA -- the Rebirth of a Movement



The British Campaign



Response to Violence



Prison: Riots, Escapes, Unlucky Freedoms, Personalities and a Place Called Crossmaglen



Hunger Striking: the IRA Reach Beyond the Bars



Arms



The Use of Torture



Sectarian Murder



Return to Secrecy and Discipline



1979-1986



The Ignition of the Crisis



Five Demands and Hunger Strikes



The Test of the Ballot Box



Bombs in Britain and Counter-Insurgency



Action in Ireland



The INLA: 1980-93



The Green Book



The Green Book: II



1986-1993



The Enemy of My Enemy is My Friend



Gerry Adams



Peace Comes Dropping Slow



From Despair to Hope


Appendix I


Appendix II


Selected References


Glossary


Index of Names


General Index


Maps


Ireland


Northern Ireland


Belfast