McKearney, Tommy

The Provisional IRA : from insurrection to Parliament / Tommy McKearney. - London : New York : Pluto Press ; Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. - xii, 236 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-228) and index.

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 Fâein, '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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Provisional IRA--History.
Irish Republican Army--History.
Sinn Fein--History.
Ejército Republicano Irlandés Provisional--Historia.


Terrorism--History--Northern Ireland--20th century.
Violence--History.--Ireland
Sinn Féin (Partido Político)--Historia--Irlanda.


Northern Ireland--Politics and government--1969-1994.
Northern Ireland--Politics and government--1994-
Irlanda del Norte--Historia (+).
Irlanda del Norte--Política y gobierno--1969-1994.
Irlanda del Norte--Política y gobierno--1994-

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