Armed Struggle: The History of the IRA

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Oxford University Press, 2005 - 492 من الصفحات
The IRA has been a much richer, more complexly layered, and more protean organization than is frequently recognized. It is also more open to balanced examination now--at the end of its long war in the north of Ireland--than it was even a few years ago.
Richard English's brilliant book offers a detailed history of the IRA, providing invaluable historical depth to our understanding of the modern-day Provisionals, the more militant wing formed in 1969 dedicated to the removal of the British Government from Northern Ireland and the reunification of Ireland. English examines the dramatic events of the Easter Rising in 1916 and the bitter guerrilla war of 1919-21, the partitioning of Ireland in the 1920s, and the Irish Civil War of 1922-23. Here, too, are the IRA campaigns in Northern Ireland and Britain from the 1930s through the 1960s. He shows how the Provisionals were born out of the turbulence generated by the 1960s civil rights movement, and examines the escalating violence that introduced British troops to the streets of Northern Ireland. He also examines the split in the IRA that produced the Provisionals, the introduction of internment in 1971, and the tragedy of Bloody Sunday in 1972. He then discusses the struggle over political status, culminating in the Hunger Strikes of the early 1980s and describes the Provisionals' emergence as a more committed political force throughout that decade, a politicization that made possible the peace process that has developed over the last decade. English offers a dazzling synthesis of the motives, actions and consequences of the IRA. Neither romanticizing the IRA nor condemning them outright, this is a balanced, definitive treatment of one of the world's leading revolutionary movements.
 

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THE IRISH REVOLUTION 191623
3
NEW STATES 192363
42
THE BIRTH OF THE PROVISIONAL IRA 196372
81
THE POLITICS OF VIOLENCE 19726
148
THE PRISON WAR 197681
187
POLITICIZATION AND THE CYCLE OF VIOLENCE 19818
227
TALKING AND KILLING 198894
263
CESSATIONS OF VIOLENCE 19942002
285
CONCLUSION
337
Afterword
385
Notes and References
390
Bibliography
451
Index
479
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Richard English is Professor of Politics at Queen's University, Belfast. His previous books include Ernie O'Malley: IRA Intellectual and Radicals and the Republic: Socialist Republicanism in the Irish Free State 1925-1937.

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