The IRA

"This updated edition of the best-selling history of the IRA now includes behind-the-scenes information on the recent advances made in the peace process. With clarity and objectivity, Coogan examines the IRA's origins, its foreign links, bombing campaigns, hunger strikes and sectarian viol...

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Main Author: Coogan, Tim Pat, 1935-
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Palgrave for St. Martin's Press, 2002.
Edition: Fully rev. and updated, 1st Palgrave ed.
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Summary: "This updated edition of the best-selling history of the IRA now includes behind-the-scenes information on the recent advances made in the peace process. With clarity and objectivity, Coogan examines the IRA's origins, its foreign links, bombing campaigns, hunger strikes and sectarian violence and its role in the latest attempts to bring peace to Northern Ireland. Meticulously researched and featuring interviews with past and present members of the organization, this is a compelling account of modern Irish history."--From publisher's website.
Physical Description: xxii, 808 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 777-779) and indexes.
ISBN: 9780312294168 (softcover)
0312294166 (softcover)
Author Notes: Tim Pat Coogan is one of the best known journalists and historians in Ireland. Author, broadcaster and former editor of the Irish Press, he has written several books, including Wherever Green is Worn The Troubles, the pioneering study, Ireland Since the Rising, On the Blanket, and a number of others including his best-selling biographies Michael Collins and Eamon De Valera