Suchergebnisse

Cover Page -- The Secret Army: The IRA -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction to the Transaction Edition -- Foreword to the 1979 Edition -- Foreword to the 1970 Edition -- Part I The Glorious Years: 1916-1927 -- I The Rising: The Republic Proclaimed, The Army Committed, April-September 1916 -- II The Tan War: The IRA Triumphant, September 1916-July 1921 -- III The Irregular Years: Schism, Terror, and Despair, June 1921-August 1923 -- IV The Legion of the Rearguard: The Response to Defeat, May 1923-August 1927 -- Part II The Cosgrave Years: 1927-1932 -- V The IRA Goes to Ground: Perseverance on the Road to the Republic, September 1927-February 1932 -- Part III The De Valera Years: 1932-1938 -- VI De Valera in Power: The Devil We Don't Know, March 1932-June 1936 -- VII De Valera Pre-empts the Stage: The IRA without Direction, June 1936-March 1938 -- Part IV The War Years: 1938-1945 -- VIII The English Campaign: Bombs for Britain, April 1938-September 1939 -- IX The Momentum Ebbs: Conspiracy, Coercion, and Desperate Men, September 1939-April 1941 -- X Turmoil at the Centre: The Stephen Hayes Affair, April 1941-September 1941 -- XI The Edge of Chaos: Twilight of the Gunmen, October 1941-December 1944 -- Part V The Campaign Years: 1945-1969 -- XII The IRA Endures: The Agonizing Reconstruction, 1945-1951 -- XIII The IRA on the Move: The Great Arms Raids, 1951-1954 -- XIV The Campaign: The Build-up, 1954-1956 -- XV The Campaign: The IRA on the Offensive, December 1956-July 1957 -- XVI The Campaign: The IRA on the Defensive, August 1957-March 1962 -- XVII The Gun on the Shelf: The IRA in the Doldrums, March 1962-July 1969 -- Part VI -- XVIII The North Explodes and the Army Divides -- XIX The Rise of the Provos: 1970-1972 -- XX The Bloody Watershed, 1972-1974 -- XXI A War of Attrition, 1974-1979 -- Part VII

"Irish history sounds a long litany of grievance and vengeance--lost battles, escaped earls, and institutionalized injustice. The gun, certainly in this century, has played a prominent part. In The Gun in Politics, J. Bowyer Bell presents the story of one Ireland--the Ireland of the Troubles--and about an approach to understanding political violence. In particular, he examines the Irish Republic Army, the longest-enduring unsuccessful revolutionary organization. He de-scribes the covert world of gunmen and the great game they play in the street.His is a lively, telling account of sophisticated weapons transfer, of the impact of civil war on society, and of appropriate democratic responses to terrorism. Bell's association with active Republicans, his endless tea seminars at the United Irishman, drinks at Hennessy's, and constant conversation throughout Ireland on political matters over a period of twenty years has provided the author with unique background for this guide to a fascinating, though brutal, undercurrent of Irish history."--Provided by publisher.

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

This is an analysis of one of the most prevalent forms of political violence at the end of the millennium. The author has been shot at, kidnapped, expelled and questioned in wars from Central America to Northern Ireland. The book reflects his access to the cultures of political violence

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- The Long Prologue -- 1. MADRID 1936-1939 The Impact of a Siege -- 2. LONDON 1940-1941 Siege by Air -- 3. SINGAPORE 1941-1942 The Illusion of a Fortress -- 4. STALINGRAD 1942-1943 The Strategy of a Siege -- 5. WARSAW 1939, 1943, 1944 A Contrast in Sieges -- 6. JERUSALEM 1947-1949 A Clash of Destinies -- 7. BERLIN 1945-1949 Siege by Diplomacy -- 8. A Summary of Sieges -- Notes and Sources -- Index

"Based on thousands of interviews over 35 years with the leaders and members of the Republican movement and the IRA, as well as with the Irish British, and Americans involved in the Troubles - police, paramilitaries, politicians, bankers, agents, diplomats - and deploying a detailed knowledge of all the orthodox printed sources, this work is unique in the literature."

Traces history of conflict in Northern Ireland between Protestants and Catholics, focusing on acts of violence by both Protestant paramilitary forces and the Irish Republican Army (IRA); whether the current cease-fire will hold or conflict continue to break out into the 21st century.