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Defying the IRA? : intimidation, coercion, and communities during the Irish Revolution
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ISBN: 9781781383544 1781383545 1781382972 9781781382974 1786944014 Year: 2016 Publisher: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press,

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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.


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Special category. : the IRA in English prisons
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ISBN: 9780716533030 0716533030 9780716533023 Year: 2016 Publisher: Kildare, Ireland : Irish Academic Press,


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Ex-Combatants, Gender and Peace in Northern Ireland : Women, Political Protest and the Prison Experience
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ISBN: 1137363290 1137363304 Year: 2016 Publisher: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

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This book explores the contours of women's involvement in the Irish Republican Army, political protest and the prison experience in Northern Ireland. Through the voices of female and male combatants, it demonstrates that women remained marginal in the examination of imprisonment during the Conflict and in the negotiated peace process. However, the book shows that women performed a number of roles in war and peace that placed constructions of femininity in dissent. Azrini Wahidin argues that the role of the female combatant is not given but ambiguous. She indicates that a tension exists between different conceptualisations of societal security, where female combatants both fought against societal insecurity posed by the state and contributed to internal societal dissonance within their ethno-national groups. This book tackles the lacunae that has created a disturbing silence and an absence of a comprehensive understanding of women combatants, which includes knowledge of their motivations, roles and experiences. It will be of particular interest to scholars of criminology, politics and peace studies.

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Social sciences. --- Peace. --- Terrorism. --- Political violence. --- Crime --- Organized crime. --- Corrections. --- Punishment. --- Sociology. --- Sex (Psychology). --- Gender expression. --- Gender identity. --- Social Sciences. --- Crime and Society. --- Prison and Punishment. --- Gender Studies. --- Organized Crime. --- Terrorism and Political Violence. --- Peace Studies. --- Sociological aspects. --- Social conflict --- Women political prisoners --- History --- Irish Republican Army. --- Class conflict --- Class struggle --- Conflict, Social --- Social tensions --- Armata repubblicana irlandese --- Armée républicaine irlandaise --- I.R.A. --- IRA --- Official IRA --- Oglaig na h-Éireann --- Criminology and Criminal Justice. --- Sex identity (Gender identity) --- Sexual identity (Gender identity) --- Identity (Psychology) --- Sex (Psychology) --- Queer theory --- Expression, Gender --- Sex role --- Psychology, Sexual --- Sex --- Sexual behavior, Psychology of --- Sexual psychology --- Sensuality --- Social theory --- Social sciences --- Penalties (Criminal law) --- Penology --- Corrections --- Impunity --- Retribution --- Correctional services --- Criminal justice, Administration of --- Crime syndicates --- Organised crime --- Criminal sociology --- Criminology --- Sociology of crime --- Sociology --- Violence --- Political crimes and offenses --- Terrorism --- Acts of terrorism --- Attacks, Terrorist --- Global terrorism --- International terrorism --- Political terrorism --- Terror attacks --- Terrorist acts --- Terrorist attacks --- World terrorism --- Direct action --- Insurgency --- Subversive activities --- Political violence --- Terror --- Coexistence, Peaceful --- Peaceful coexistence --- International relations --- Disarmament --- Peace-building --- Security, International --- War --- Psychological aspects --- Sociological aspects --- Irish Volunteers --- Provisional IRA --- Political prisoners --- Women prisoners --- Interpersonal conflict --- Social psychology --- Crime—Sociological aspects. --- 1900-1999 --- Northern Ireland. --- G.N.I. --- GNI --- Irlande du Nord --- Kita Airurando --- Kitairurando --- Nordirland --- Norlin Airlann --- Pohjois-Irlanti --- Severna Irlandii͡ --- Tuaisceart Éireann

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