The secret army : the IRA, 1916-1979

Author(s)

• Bell, J. Bowyer

Bibliographic Information

The secret army : the IRA, 1916-1979

J. Bowyer Bell

MIT Press, 1983

1st MIT Press paperback ed

• : pbk

Note

Bibliography: p. [47]-463

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The Secret Army traces the history of the IRA from its roots in the eighteenth-century republicanism of Wolfe Tone to the glorious years of 1916-1921, and on through the thirties and World War II, to the fifties campaign, the quieter sixties, and the eruption of violence since then.

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Details

• NCID: BB28820340
• ISBN:
  • 0262520907
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Cambridge, Mass.
• Pages/Volumes: xiv, 481 p., [16] p. of plates
• Size: 22 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : DA959
  • DC : 941.508
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Irish Republican Army -- History
  • LCSH : Political violence -- Ireland -- History -- 20th century
  • LCSH : Ireland -- History -- 20th century
  • LCSH : Northern Ireland -- History