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  • The I.R.A. and its Enemies: Violence and Community in Cork, 1916-1923

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

    Violence and Community in Cork, 1916-1923

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    • Publisher Clarendon Press
    • Date of Publication 19 March 1998

    • ISBN 9780198205371
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages366 pages
    • Size 242x161x25 mm
    • Weight 664 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations tables
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    Short description:

    What is it like to be in the I.R.A., to fight them, or to be at their mercy? This book explores the lives, deaths, enemies, and victims of the most powerful guerrillas of twentieth-century Ireland: those of the Cork I.R.A. between 1916 and 1923. Drawing on an unprecedented body of sources, including numerous interviews this is a uniquely intimate study of revolution, guerrilla war, and ethnic conflict.

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    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

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    Table of Contents:

    Introduction: The Killing of Sergeant O'Donoghue
    Part I: Revolution, 1916-1923
    The Kilmichael Ambush
    Rebel Cork
    Dying for Ireland
    The Cork Republic
    Part II: Rebels
    The Boys of Kilmichael
    Volunteers
    Youth and Rebellion
    Part III: The Path to Revolution
    The Rise and Fall of a Revolutionary Party
    Volunteering
    Guerrillas
    Part IV: Neighbours and Enemies
    Taking it out on the Protestants
    Spies and Informers
    Appendix: Sources and Definitions: I.R.A. Membership and Violence
    Bibliography
    Index

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