The I.R.A. and its Enemies by Peter Hart

The I.R.A. and its Enemies by Peter Hart

What is it like to be in the I.R.A. - or at their mercy? This fascinating study explores the lives and deaths of the enemies and victims of the County Cork I.R.A. between 1916 and 1923 - the most powerful and deadly branch of the I.R.A. during one of the most turbulent periods in twentieth-century Ireland. These years saw the breakdown of the British legal system and police authority, the rise of republican violence, and the escalation of the conflict into a full-scale guerilla war, leading to a wave of riots, ambushes, lootings, and reprisal killings, with civilians forming the majority of victims in this unacknowledged civil war. Religion may have provided the starting point for the conflict, but class prejudice, patriotism, and personal grudges all fuelled the development and continuation of widespread violence. Using an unprecedented range of sources - many of them only recently made public - Peter Hart explores the motivation behind such activity. His conclusions not only reveal a hidden episode of Ireland's troubled past but provide valuable insights into the operation of similar terrorist groups today.

brilliant book * Paul Bew, Spectator *
Winner of the Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize for 1998

Peter Hart is the author of The I.R.A. and the Canada Research Chair in Irish Studies at Memorial University of Newfoundland. and Its Opponents, which won the ChristopherEwart-Biggs Memorial Award, as well as two other volumes on modern Irish history.

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ISBN 13	9780198205371
ISBN 10	0198205376
Title	The I.R.A. and its Enemies
Author	Peter Hart
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Year published	1998-03-19
Number of pages	368
Prizes	Winner of Winner of the Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize for 1998.
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