Description
Book SynopsisAn in depth study of the IRA in the years leading up to the conflict that broke out in 1969. This book explores the internal divisions that existed within the IRA and Sinn Fein in this period.
Trade ReviewThis valuable and detailed work by Dáil Éireann researcher Matt Treacy assesses that critical and often neglected period for the Irish Republican Army and Sinn Féin, between the launch of the ultimately futile Border Campaign of 1956-1962 and the outbreak in earnest of the Troubles in Northern Ireland in 1969. -- .
Table of ContentsContents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. The 1956 - 1962 armed campaign and the reorganisation of the IRA
2. The ideology of traditional Republicanism
3. Abstentionism and the growth of internal divisions
4. The Wolfe Tone Society and the Communists
5. 1966 and the revival of the IRA ‘Threat’.
6. Towards the National Liberation Front
7. The northern crisis and the split
Epilogue
Bibliography
