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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.

La résistance irlandaise 1916-1976.
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ISBN: 2707109231 9782707109231 Year: 1977 Volume: 192 Publisher: Paris Maspero


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The I.R.A.
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ISBN: 0006359329 Year: 1981 Publisher: Glasgow : Fontana ; Collins,

The IRA at war, 1916-1923
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ISBN: 1281346179 9786611346171 0191530948 1429460113 9780191530944 9781281346179 9781429460118 6611346171 0199252580 9780199252589 9780199277865 0199277869 1383039240 Year: 2023 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press,

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What kind of people joined the IRA? Did Michael Collins order the assassination of Sir Henry Wilson? Using new research and questioning old assumptions, these essays address these and other controversies to suggest new ways of looking at the history of the Irish Revolution of 1916-23.


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IRA, the bombs and the bullets : a history of deadly ingenuity
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ISBN: 1788550188 9781788550185 9780716528944 Year: 2018 Publisher: Dublin, [Ireland] ; Portland, [Oregon] : Irish Academic Press,

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As a leading expert on non-conventional weapons and explosives, the author focuses on the bombs and explosives and shows how the IRA became the most adept and experienced insurgency group the world has ever seen through their bombing expertise and how - after generations of conflict - it all came to an end. The book is a comprehensive account of more than 150 years of Irish republican strategic, tactical, and operational details and analysis covering the IRA's mission, doctrine, targeting, and acquisition of weapons and explosives. Oppenheimer also colourfully presents the story behind the bombs; those who built and deployed them, those who had to deal with and dismantle them, and those who suffered or died from them. He analyses where, how, and why the IRA's bombs were built, targeted and deployed and explores what the IRA was hoping to accomplish in its unrivalled campaign of violence and insurgency through covert acquisition, training, intelligence and counter-intelligence. The book focuses entirely on the IRA's bombing campaign - beginning with the Fenian 'Dynamiters' in the 19th century up to the decommissioning of an arsenal big enough to arm several battalions - which included an entire home-crafted missile system, an unsurpassed range of improvised explosive devices, and enough explosives to blow up several urban centres. The author scrutinises the level of improvisation in what became the hallmark of the Provisional IRA in its pioneering IED timing, delay and disguise technologies. He follows the arms race it carried on with the British Army and security services in a Long War of Mutual Assured Disruption. Oppenheimer fully describes and assesses the impact of the pre-1970s bombing campaigns in Northern Ireland and England to the evolution of strategies and tactics. He also provides an insight into the bombing equipment and guns from the IRA inventory held at Irish Police HQ in Dublin.


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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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Inside the IRA : dissident republicans and the war for legitimacy
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ISBN: 0748688129 0748652906 1283133229 9786613133229 0748646043 0748641122 0748646965 Year: 2011 Publisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press,

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The Irish Republican movement was one of the most significant revolutionary movements of the twentieth century. This book focuses on the issue of republican splits which created the Provisional and Official republican movements and the subsequent development of those movements.

The IRA, 1968-2000
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ISBN: 0714650706 9781136333088 0714681199 1136333088 9780714650708 9780714681191 9780203045367 020304536X 9781136333156 1136333150 9781136333224 1136333223 1299458513 Year: 2000 Publisher: London Portland, OR Frank Cass

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Based on thousands of interviews over 35 years with the leaders and members of the Republican movement and the IRA itself, as well as the Irish, British and Americans involved in the Troubles, the focus of this study is on the workings of an organization involved in armed struggle.

Unsafe haven : the United States, the IRA, and political prisoners
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ISBN: 1849640165 0585425809 9781849640169 9780585425801 0745313175 9780745313177 0745313221 9780745313221 Year: 2000 Publisher: London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press,


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Terror attack Brighton : blowing up the Iron Lady
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ISBN: 1473842352 1473842344 9781473842342 Year: 2014 Publisher: South Yorkshire, England : Pen and Sword Politics,

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The Brighton bombing in 1984 was the most audacious terrorist attack ever on the British Government. Certainly it was the most ambitious since the Gunpowder plot of 1605. The Provisional I.R.A. detonated a bomb at the Grand Hotel on 12th October 1984. Most of the Government were staying at the hotel at the time. The Conservative party was holding its annual conference in the town. Five people were killed in the explosion, and more than thirty were injured. It came very close to wiping out most of the Government, including the Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher. The I.R.A.'s Patrick Magee had bo

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