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Provisional Irish Republican Army and the Morality of Terrorism

Author : Timothy Shanahan
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748635319
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Provisional Irish Republican Army and the Morality of Terrorism written by Timothy Shanahan and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2008-12-18 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is terrorism ever morally justified? How should historical and cultural factors be taken into account in judging the morality of terrorist acts? What are the ethical limits of state counter-terrorism?For three decades the Provisional Irish Republican Army waged an 'armed struggle' against what it considered to be the British occupation of Northern Ireland. To its supporters, the IRA was the legitimate army of Ireland, fighting to force a British withdrawal as a prelude to the re-unification of the Irish nation. To its enemies, the IRA was an illegal, fanatical, terrorist organization whose members were criminals willing to sacrifice innocent lives in pursuit of its ideological obsession. At the centre of the conflict were the then unconventional tactics employed by the IRA, including sectarian killings, political assassinations, and bombings that devastated urban centres - tactics that have become increasingly commonplace in the post-9/11 world.This book is the first detailed philosophical examination of the morality of the IRA's violent campaign, and of the British government's attempts to end it. Written in clear, accessible prose, it is essential reading for anyone wishing to acquire a deeper understanding of one of the paradigmatic conflicts of the late 20th century.

The Secret Army

Author : J. Bowyer Bell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351474456
Total Pages : 1102 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book The Secret Army written by J. Bowyer Bell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 1102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Secret Army is the definitive work on the Irish Republican Army. It is an absorbing account of a movement that has had a profound effect on the shaping of the modern Irish state. The secret army in the service of the invisible Republic has had a powerful effect on Irish events over the past twenty-five years. These hidden corridors of power interest Bell and inspired him to spend more time with the IRA than many volunteers spend in it. This book is the culmination of twenty-five years of work and tens of thousands of hours of interviews. Bell's unique access to the leadership of the republican movement and his contacts with all involved—British politicians, Irish politicians, policemen, arms smugglers, and others committed or opposed to the IRA—explain why The Secret Army is the book on the subject. This edition represents a complete revision and includes vast quantities of new information. Bell's book gives us vital insight into our times as well as Irish history. This edition of The Secret Army contains six new chapters that bring the history of this clandestine organization up to date. They are: The First Decade, The Nature of the Long War, 1979-1980"; "Unconventional Conflict, The Hunger Strikes, January 1980-October 3, 1981"; The Protracted Struggle, September 1981-January 1984"; "War, Politics, and the Split, January 1984-December 1986"; The Troubles as Institution, 1987-1990": and The Armed Struggle Transformed, 1991-1996, The End Game." In his new introduction, Bell reflects on his decades of research, the experiences he has had, and the people he has met during his extensive visits to Ireland.

Armed Struggle

Author : Richard English
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195177534
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (775 download)

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Download or read book Armed Struggle written by Richard English and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2005 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the history of the Irish Republican Army, from the 1916 Easter Rising until the present day, discussing such topics as the IRA's core beliefs and philosophy, the partition of Ireland, and the split of the IRA.

The IRA

Author : James C. Dingley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313387044
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book The IRA written by James C. Dingley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Authored by an individual with 30 years of experience studying terrorism as well as access to the most senior counter-terrorist army and police officers combating the IRA, this book provides the first complete analysis of the world's premier terrorist group to explain them in ideological as well as operational terms. The IRA: The Irish Republican Army begins by examining the historical background to the development of the IRA, the group's basic ideology, and its aims and objectives. The second part of the book concentrates on the IRA—specifically the Provisional IRA—as a contemporary phenomenon, explaining its organization, how it operates, who joins the IRA, and why. The book explores how the IRA was formed from a Romantic reaction against modernity, and is an expression of a vehement rejection of the liberal, individualist, and scientific values of the Enlightenment. The IRA's attachment to violence almost as an end in itself, its conflation of Catholicism with Irish-ness, its rejection of big-business for peasant-proprietor economics, and its disregard for individual rights in pursuit of group rights is explained in terms of the groups' scholastic Catholicism foundation. For academic audiences in Irish studies, politics, sociology, history, and security and defense studies, as well as professional security forces and interested general readers with an interest in current affairs, this book supplies a wholly new perspective on both the IRA and terrorism in general.

The Irish Republican Army

Author : Susie Derkins
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780823938223
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (382 download)

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Download or read book The Irish Republican Army written by Susie Derkins and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2002-12-15 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The profoundly sad and bitter story of Irish resistance to Britains occupation and administration of the six counties of Northern Ireland extends over 800 years and encompasses suffering on both sides of the conflict. The Catholic Irish, the Protestant Irish, and the British armed forces have, until recently, seemed caught up in an unbreakable cycle of violence and tragedy. Susie Derkins untangles this long history of grievance and retribution, while carefully examining the latest and most promising efforts by all sides to find peace and reconciliation.

Irish Republican Army

Author : iMinds
Publisher : iMinds Pty Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1921761784
Total Pages : 6 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (217 download)

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Download or read book Irish Republican Army written by iMinds and published by iMinds Pty Ltd. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn about the history of the Irish Republican Army with iMinds insightful knowledge series. Much like the history of its homeland, the Irish Republican Army, or IRA, is complex and contested. Formed as a resistance movement during World War One, the IRA has since undergone several splits and reinventions. There are no fewer than five groups who identify themselves as the IRA, all of which can trace their beginnings to the original resistance movement. Despite their differences, the various IRA groups have at least a common goal: the unification of Ireland and an end to occupation of Northern Ireland by the United Kingdom. The IRA started out of a desire within Ireland for self-administration at the beginning of the 20th century. In 1914, the British Parliament passed an act that sought to provide "Home Rule" for Ireland as part of the United Kingdom. But the onset of World War One delayed implementation of the act, and the Home Rule outlined by the act was limited, causing heated debate amongst the Irish. Frustration of Irish nationalists provoked a full-scale rebellion in April 1916. This insurrection would become known as the Easter Rising. iMinds brings targeted knowledge to your eReading device with short information segments to whet your mental appetite and broaden your mind.

Fighting for Ireland?

Author : M.L.R. Smith
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134713967
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)

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Download or read book Fighting for Ireland? written by M.L.R. Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11-01 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fighting for Ireland? is the first in-depth account of the evolution of Irish Republican strategy. It is highly topical in the light of the faltering peace process and the growing speculation over the IRA's next move: further violence or a new non-violent strategy? This new, updated paperback edition is essential reading for those who wish to disentangle the complex issues and motives behind IRA violence. M.L.R. Smith challenges many assumptions about the IRA, pinpointing the organisation's successes as well as its missed opportunities. He demonstrates the tension the movement has experienced between ideology and strategic reality regarding the use of force, illustrating how doctrinal purity has sometimes hampered the IRA in the pursuit of its goals. Contrary to the Irish Republican movement's vigorous and assertive public face Smith uncovers an organisation characterised more by a sense of chronic insecurity than by certainty and continuity.

A Secret History of the IRA

Author : Ed Moloney
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393325027
Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book A Secret History of the IRA written by Ed Moloney and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2002 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A portrayal of the Irish Republican Army includes coverage of its associations with Qaddafi's regime, Margaret Thatcher's secret diplomacy with Gerry Adams, and the Catholic Church's negotiations with Republican leadership.

Defying the IRA?

Author : Brian Hughes (Historian)
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1781382972
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book Defying the IRA? written by Brian Hughes (Historian) and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the grass-roots relationship between the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and the civilian population during the Irish Revolution. It is primarily concerned with the attempts of the militant revolutionaries to discourage, stifle, and punish dissent among the local populations in which they operated, and the actions or inactions by which dissent was expressed or implied. Focusing on the period of guerilla war against British rule from c. 1917 to 1922, it uncovers the acts of 'everyday' violence, threat, and harm that characterized much of the revolutionary activity of this period. Moving away from the ambushes and assassinations that have dominated much of the discourse on the revolution, the book explores low-level violent and non-violent agitation in the Irish town or parish. The opening chapter treats the IRA's challenge to the British state through the campaign against servants of the Crown - policemen, magistrates, civil servants, and others - and IRA participation in local government and the republican counter-state. The book then explores the nature of civilian defiance and IRA punishment in communities across the island before turning its attention specifically to the year that followed the 'Truce' of July 1921. This study argues that civilians rarely operated at either extreme of a spectrum of support but, rather, in a large and fluid middle ground. Behaviour was rooted in local circumstances, and influenced by local fears, suspicions, and rivalries. IRA punishment was similarly dictated by community conditions and usually suited to the nature of the perceived defiance. Overall, violence and intimidation in Ireland was persistent, but, by some contemporary standards, relatively restrained.

The Yank

Author : John Crawley
Publisher : Melville House
ISBN 13 : 1612199844
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book The Yank written by John Crawley and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2022-09-06 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1975: A young Irish-American man joins an elite US Marine unit to get the most intensive military training possible — then joins the Irish Republican Army, during the days of some of the bloodiest fighting ever in the Irish-British conflict . . . The Irish "Troubles" were at a murderous fever pitch when John Crawley volunteered for the IRA. Bloody Friday, Bloody Sunday, the bombing of the British Houses of Parliament, and other deadly incidents had recently unfolded or were about to ... Civilian casualties were common as British soldiers, Republican militants (who wanted the UK out of Northern Ireland) and Unionist police and militants (who wanted to remain in the UK), engaged in gun battles and car bombing throughout Northern Ireland. The death toll numbered over 1,000. The IRA split over how to react between the old-line IRA, and the new Provisional IRA — the Provos, mostly impassioned young men who were not hesitant to resort to violence. In a powerful, brutally honest, no-holds-barred recounting of his experience, John Crawley details, first, the grueling challenges of his Marine Corps training, then how he put his hard-earned munitions and demolitions skills to use back in Ireland in service of the Provos. It is a story that will see him running guns with notorious American mobster — and secret IRA fundraiser — Whitey Bulger; running, under cover of night, from safe house to safe house in the Irish countryside, one step ahead of British troops; being captured, imprisoned, and being part of a mass escape attempt; fending off a recruitment offer from the CIA; and being one of the masterminds behind a campaign to take out London's electrical system. Along the way, Crawley is blisteringly candid about the memorable people he worked with, including behind-the-scenes portrayals of revered IRA leader Martin McGuinness, and of the psychopathic Whitey Bulger, as well as others in the Boston IRA support network. There are vivid portraits of colleagues and enemies, and Crawley is unflinching in his commentary on IRA leadership and their tactics, both military and political. Through it all comes the steadfast voice of a man on a mission, providing an evocative, detailed, and passionate recounting of where that mission led him and why — as well as why, to this day, he remains ready to serve.

Behind the Mask: The Irish Republican Army (IRA) and Sinn Fein

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (443 download)

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Download or read book Behind the Mask: The Irish Republican Army (IRA) and Sinn Fein written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents information about the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and Sinn Fein published by the Public Broadcasting Service and Frontline, a WGBH television program. Describes the Northern Ireland Conflict and the IRA. Offers access to interviews, essays, poems, songs, and special reports. Contains a chronology, maps, viewer discussions, and press reactions.

Michael's War

Author : Daniel Ford
Publisher : Warbird Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Michael's War written by Daniel Ford and published by Warbird Books. This book was released on 2015-04-13 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When he set out on his road to rebellion, Michael Ford only wanted to keep the foxes out of Hannon's Glen. But before he was done, he found himself exchanging rifle fire with the British army, with an unlikely ally in the form of Annabel Love, the squire's daughter. Michael's War tracks the course of revolution and civil war that rended Ireland from 1916 to 1923. It ends with its hero escaping to America--but what sweetheart will he ask to join him in the new world?

The Irish War

Author : Tony Geraghty
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801871177
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book The Irish War written by Tony Geraghty and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2002-11-12 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Irish War military veteran and historian Tony Geraghty reveals the sinister patterns of action and reaction in this generations-old domestic conflict. Drawing on public and covert sources, as well as interviews with members of British Intelligence, the security forces, and the Irish Republican Army, he brings to light the disturbing inner workings of an organized terrorist group and its military opposition.

The I.R.A.

Author : Tim Pat Coogan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The I.R.A. written by Tim Pat Coogan and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the origins, growth and activities of the Irish Republican Army, a group of fiery nationalists organized after the Easter Rebellion of 1916.

The Irish War of Independence

Author : Michael Hopkinson
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773570764
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book The Irish War of Independence written by Michael Hopkinson and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2002-11-20 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The war was prosecuted ruthlessly by the Irish Republican Army which, paralleling the political efforts of Sinn Féin, hoped to break Britain's will to rule Ireland and create an independent Irish republic. The British retaliated by introducing two new irregular forces into Ireland, the Black and Tans and the Auxiliaries. Fighting took place principally in counties Cork, Limerick, Tipperary, Monaghan, Armagh, Clare, Kerry, and Longford. It was sporadic but vicious, with fewer than 2,000 IRA volunteers facing over 50,000 crown forces. The IRA depended upon energetic local leaders -- where there were none, there was little fighting.

Inside the IRA

Author : Andrew Sanders
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748646043
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Inside the IRA written by Andrew Sanders and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-25 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Would the 'real' IRA please stand up? Why, and how, the IRA splintered. The Real IRA, the Continuity IRA, the Irish National Liberation Army, the Official IRA and the Provisional IRA have all assumed responsibility for the struggle for Irish freedom over the course of the late-20th century. Yet as recently as 1969 there was only one Irish Republican Army trying to unify Ireland using physical force., Andrew Sanders explains how and why the transition from one IRA to several IRAs occurred, analysing all the dissident factions that have emerged since the outbreak of the Northern Ireland troubles. He looks at why these groups emerged, what their respective purposes are, and why, in an era of relative peace and stability in Northern Ireland, they seek to prolong the violence that cost over 3500 lives.

Irish Republican Army Manual of Guerrilla Warfare

Author : Irish Republican Army
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781937981853
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (818 download)

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Download or read book Irish Republican Army Manual of Guerrilla Warfare written by Irish Republican Army and published by . This book was released on 2013-03-23 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is filled with strategies for guerilla warfare gained from first hand experiences of Irish Republican Army volunteers and regulars. Whether you are a student of political science or the military sciences, this book is an absolute must have for every library.