The IRAAn updated edition of this unique, bestselling history of the Irish Republican Army, 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 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. |
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 | 297 |
196270 | 330 |
19691979 | 339 |
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 | 774 |
Glossary | 780 |
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