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Author:
McKearney, Tommy.
Title:
The Provisional IRA : from insurrection to Parliament / Tommy McKearney.
Publisher:
Pluto Press ;
Copyright Date:
2011
Description:
xii, 236 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm.
Subject:
Provisional IRA--History.
Irish Republican Army--History.
Sinn Fein--History.
Terrorism--Northern Ireland--History--20th century.
Violence--Ireland--History.
Northern Ireland--Politics and government--1969-1994.
Northern Ireland--Politics and government--1994-
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-228) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: from Orange State to sectarian state / Paul Stewart -- Police batons respond to demand for civil rights -- Unionist determination to deny democracy -- The violent storms of August '69 -- Widespread conflict looms -- An emerging force -- Training people for insurrection? -- Attempting to quell the insurgency by bloodshed and blandishment -- Irish republicanism and class -- The political and military strategy of the Provisional IRA -- The war in England -- Britain's response -- Reviewing strategy in the mid-1970s -- The gradual adoption of parliamentarianism -- Options and opportunities -- The road less travelled...the left alternative -- Parliamentary Sinn Fâein, 'surrender and re-grant' -- From armalites to populist conformity -- General election upset in the South -- The end of a journey -- A new republic and a relevant republicanism.
ISBN:
0745330746
9780745330747 (pbk.)
0745330754
9780745330754 (hbk.)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)687698674
LCCN:
2011378248
Locations:
OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

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