The I.R.A.

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An updated edition of this unique, bestselling history of the IRA, now including behind-the-scenes information on the recent advances made in the peace process. Tim Pat Coogan's classic The IRA provides the only fair-minded, comprehensive history of the organization that has transformed the Irish nationalist movement this century. With clarity and detachment, Coogan examines the IRA's origins, its foreign links, the bombing campaigns, hunger strikes and sectarian violence, and now their role in the latest attempt to bring peace to Northern Ireland. Meticulously researched, and backed up by interviews with past and present members of the organization, Tim Pat Coogan's book is an authoritative and compelling account of modern Irish history from the point of view of one of its most controversial major participants. Front Cover Tim Pat Coogan Ireland (MAP) Title Page Copyright CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS PREFACE Part I N. Ireland (MAP) 1 / THE ORIGINS OF THE I.R.A. 2 / DILEMMAS OF VIOLENCE AND POLITICS 3 / THE TRIUMPH OF FIANNA FAIL 4 / THE I.R.A.'S FOREIGN LINKS 5 / THE BOMBING CAMPAIGN 6 / YEARS OF DISASTER 7 / THE I.R.A. IN THE NORTH 8 / THE YEARS OF THE CURRAGH 9 / THE I.RA. AND THE NAZIS 10 / REPUBLIC AND REPUBLICANS: I 11 / REPUBLIC AND REPUBLICANS: II 12 / PRELUDE TO THE BORDER CAMPAIGN 13 / SPLITS IN THE RANKS 14 / THE BORDER CAMPAIGN: 1956-62 EPILOGUE PART II BELFAST (MAP) 15 / THE ROOTS OF THE CONFLICT 16 / THE CONSTITUTIONAL PARTICIPANTS IN THE DRAMA 1. The British 2. The Northern Irish 3. The Southern Irish 17 / THE PROVISIONAL I.RA.-THE REBIRTH OF A MOVEMENT A partial breakdown of the statistics involved in the death toll 18 / THE BRITISH CAMPAIGN 19 / RESPONSE TO VIOLENCE 20 / PRISON: RIOTS, ESCAPES, UNLUCKY FREEDOMS, PERSONALITIES AND A PLACE CALLED CROSSMAGLEN 21 / HUNGER STRIKING: THE I.RA. REACH BEYOND THE BARS 22 / ARMS 23 / THE USE OF TORTURE 24 / SECTARIAN M:URDER 25 / THE PRESENT SITUATION EPILOGUE SELECTED REFERENCES INDEX OF NAMES GENERAL INDEX Fontana Paperbacks Back Cover