Armed StruggleArmed Struggle
the History of the IRA
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Book, 2005
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Current format, Book, 2005, , Available . Offered in 0 more formats"Richard English's book is the first full, systematic study of the thought and action of the IRA, the first book which asks not only what the IRA have done, but also why they have done it and what the consequences have been. Based on the most extensive research ever conducted for such a study, Armed Struggle offers a detailed history and analysis of the IRA, building historical foundations on which to base an understanding of modern-day Provisionals. The book examines the dramatic events of the Easter Rising in 1916 and the bitter guerrilla war of 1919-21; the partitioning of Ireland in the 1920s and the Irish Civil War of 1922-3. Here, too, are the clandestine IRA campaigns in Northern Ireland and Britain during the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. Professor English explains precisely how the Provisionals were born out of the turbulence generated by the 1960s civil rights movement. And he examines the escalating violence; the sending of British troops to the streets of Northern Ireland; the split in the IRA that produced the Provisionals; the introduction of internment in 1971 and the tragedy of Bloody Sunday in 1972. He then details the prison war over political status culminating in the Hunger Strikes of the early 1980s and moves on to describe the Provisionals' emergence as a more committedly political force throughout that decade, a politicization that made possible the peace process that has developed over the last decade."--Macmillan BOOK JACKET, 2003.
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- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
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