Summary
"This updated edition of the best-selling history of the IRA now includes behind-the-scenes information on the recent advances made in the peace process. With clarity and objectivity, Coogan examines the IRA's origins, its foreign links, bombing campaigns, hunger strikes and sectarian violence and i... Full description
- Beginnings to 1969
- The Origins of the IRA
- Dilemmas of Violence and Politics
- The Triumph of Fianna Fail
- The IRA's Foreign Links
- The Bombing Campaign
- Years of Disaster
- The IRA in the North
- The Years of the Curragh
- The IRA and the Nazis
- Republic and Republicans: I
- Republic and Republicans: II
- Prelude to the Border Campaign
- Splits in the Ranks
- The Border Campaign: 1956-62
- New Initiatives: 1962-70
- 1969-1979
- The Roots of the Conflict
- The Constitutional Participants in the Drama
- The Provisional IRA
- the Rebirth of a Movement
- The British Campaign
- Response to Violence
- Prison: Riots, Escapes, Unlucky Freedoms, Personalities and a Place Called Crossmaglen
- Hunger Striking: the IRA Reach Beyond the Bars
- Arms
- The Use of Torture
- Sectarian Murder
- Return to Secrecy and Discipline
- 1979-1986
- The Ignition of the Crisis
- Five Demands and Hunger Strikes
- The Test of the Ballot Box
- Bombs in Britain and Counter-Insurgency
- Action in Ireland
- The INLA: 1980-93
- The Green Book
- 1986-1993
- The Enemy of My Enemy is My Friend
- Gerry Adams
- Peace Comes Dropping Slow
- From Despair to Hope
- Ireland
- Northern Ireland
- Belfast.