A Secret History of the IRAFilled with disclosures and based on the author's unprecedented access to the Irish Republican Army, this explosive book sparked controversy when it was first published in hardcover. Delving deeply into the inner workings, furtive plots, and deadly rivalries of the Irish Republican Army, Ed Moloney, who has covered the IRA since the late 1970s, delivers a riveting account of how one of the world's oldest and most ruthless terrorist groups was maneuvered into ending its thirty-year war with Britain. With revelations including the IRA's long and astonishing associations with Qaddafi's regime, Margaret Thatcher's secret diplomacy with Gerry Adams, the Catholic Church's clandestine negotiations with Republican leadership, and hitherto undisclosed activities of the American government under Bill Clinton, A Secret History rewrites, with dramatic results, the story of this intractable conflict. In particular, fascinating material on Adams's Machiavellian rise to power establishes the IRA leader as one of the most complex political figures of our time. Like Thomas Friedman in From Beirut to Jerusalem, Moloney brings a sharply intelligent reporter's eye to a tangled history often baffling to outsiders. #1 international bestseller; A Washington Post 2002 Rave. |
Contents
Prologue | 3 |
The Dogs of War | 35 |
Roots | 37 |
The Defenders | 74 |
The Big Lad | 93 |
Taking On the Old Guard | 131 |
Cage 11 | 133 |
Our Dreyfus | 163 |
CeaseFire | 392 |
The Sos | 428 |
The Point of No Return | 455 |
Epilogue | 480 |
Special Sinn Fein Ard Comhairle Meeting April 12 1980 | 493 |
TUAS DocumentSummer 1994 | 498 |
Post1996 Convention IRA Constitution | 502 |
IRA Executive Chairman Seamus McGranes Speech at the 1997 Convention | 509 |
A Long Hot Summer | 196 |
A Secret Process | 217 |
Behind the Scenes | 219 |
Dealing with the Brits | 246 |
Stepping Stones | 261 |
No Idle Boast | 287 |
Death in Tyrone | 304 |
The War of the Twilight | 326 |
The Derry Experiment | 350 |
Ending the War | 373 |
Seven Men in a Room | 375 |
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Political Parties and Terrorist Groups Leonard Weinberg,Ami Pedahzur,Arie Perliger No preview available - 2009 |