The provisional IRA : from insurrection to Parliament

The provisional IRA : from insurrection to Parliament /

A IRA hunger striker imagines the future of Irish Republicanism.

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Bibliographic Details
Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Main Author: McKearney, Tommy
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London : New York, NY : Pluto Press ; Distributed in the United States by Palgrave Macmillan, 2011
Subjects:
Provisional IRA > History.
Irish Republican Army > History.
Sinn Fein > History.
Terrorism > Northern Ireland > 20th century.
Violence > Ireland > History.
Northern Ireland > Politics and government > 1968-1998.
Northern Ireland > Politics and government > 1998-
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of 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 stategy 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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