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The Provisional IRA : from insurrection to Parliament
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Title
The Provisional IRA : from insurrection to Parliament / Tommy McKearney.
ISBN
9780745330754 (hbk.)
0745330754
9780745330747 (pbk.)
0745330746
Published
London : Pluto Press ; New York : Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Physical Description
xii, 236 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 23, 2011
Bibliography
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 Féin, '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.
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