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Palgrave Macmillan, Jan 5, 2002 - History - 808 pages
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.
  

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Contents

The Origins of the IRA
3
Dilemmas of Violence and Politics
38
The Triumph of Fianna Fail
64
The IRAs Foreign Links
92
The Bombing Campaign
113
Years of Disaster
132
The IRA in the North
160
The Years of the Curragh
191
the IRA Reach Beyond the Bars
410
Arms
429
The Use of Torture
438
Sectarian Murder
443
Return to Secrecy and Discipline
464
The Ignition of the Crisis
477
Five Demands and Hunger Strikes
486
The Test of the Ballot Box
502

The IRA and the Nazis
202
I
218
II
244
Prelude to the Border Campaign
256
Splits in the Ranks
277
195662
297
196270
330
79697979
331
The Roots of the Conflict
341
The Constitutional Participants in the Drama
354
The Provisional IRA the Rebirth of a Movement
365
The British Campaign
385
Response to Violence
392
Riots Escapes Unlucky Freedoms Personalities and a Place Called Crossmaglen
402
Bombs in Britain and CounterInsurgency
513
Action in Ireland
522
198093
534
I
544
II
560
The Enemy of My Enemy is My Friend
575
Gerry Adams
620
Peace Comes Dropping Slow
639
From Despair to Hope
671
Appendix I
775
Index of Names
783
General Index
799
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References from web pages

CAIN: Tim Pat Coogan (1993) The IRA. Chap.33: The Green Book: I
As we have seen (on pages 578-81) the ira prepared a structural plan based on the ... The report found on him isolated the ira's central problem as follows. ...
cain.ulst.ac.uk/ othelem/ organ/ docs/ coogan/ coogan93.htm

Border Campaign (IRA) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In 1939 the IRA had tried a bombing campaign in England to try to force ... By 1947, the IRA had only 200 activists according to its own general staff. [4] ...
en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/ Border_Campaign_(IRA)

JSTOR: The IRA
The IRA. By Tim Pat Coogan. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1970. Pp. x+373. $8.95. The Republican physical-force tradition in Irish history dates back to the ...
links.jstor.org/ sici?sici=0022-2801(197109)43%3A3%3C515%3ATI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-C

Infoshop News - The IRA by Tim Pat Coogan, reviewed by Matt Lamont
Collins formed the foundation of the IRA, and invented the “cell structure” still used today by guerrilla warriors. After signing a treaty to form southern ...
www.infoshop.org/ inews/ article.php?story=03/ 05/ 07/ 5216953

The Irish Republican Army - Blamed for Starting the War; Blamed ...
However, placing the blame on the IRA is merely a bigoted ploy to delay power sharing with ... This violence comes not from the IRA, but from Protestants. ...
radified.com/ IRA/ peace_collapse.htm

Radio National: The Europeans
Irish writer Tim Pat Coogan has devoted his career to studying the IRA, ... He says that Sinn Fein, the political wing of the IRA, can now achieve its goals ...
www.abc.net.au/ rn/ talks/ europe/ stories/ s1324827.htm

Frontline Books: The ira - Tim Pat Coogan
An updated edition of this unique, bestselling history of the IRA, now including ... The IRA provides the only objective, comprehensive history of the ...
www.frontlinebooks.co.uk/ frontline/ viewProduct.asp?dbProductId=0006531555

Jarrow in the 1920's - the Irish Troubles
The IRA operated a guerilla campaign, with attacks upon individuals and small groups of RIC and Black and Tans, and the murder of "informers". ...
www.donmouth.co.uk/ local_history/ ira/ jarrow_isdl.html

Tim Pat Coogan, Irish author and broadcaster - Book: 'The 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. ...
www.timpatcoogan.com/ books/ the_ira.htm

TERRORISM AND ORGANISED CRIME
If the IRA has gone down the same road then how "terrorist" is it? ... The same is true of the IRA. Post 1968 terrorism has been based on 5 man cells, ...
www.people.ex.ac.uk/ watupman/ tandoc/ Audrey.doc

About the author (2002)

Tim Pat Coogan is one of the best known journalists and historians in Ireland. Former editor of theIrish Press, he has written several books, includingWherever Green is Worn (Palgrave), The Troubles (Palgrave), On the Blanket; and bestselling biographies of Michael Collins and De Valera. He lives in Dublin.

Bibliographic information

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TitleThe IRA
AuthorTim Pat Coogan
Editionillustrated, revised
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan, 2002
ISBN0312294166, 9780312294168
Length808 pages
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History / Europe / Great Britain
History / Europe / Ireland
  
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