The IRA - Softcover

Coogan, Tim Pat

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312294166 ISBN 13: 9780312294168

Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin, 2002

Synopsis

An updated edition of this unique, bestselling history of the Irish Republican Army, now including behind-the-scenes information on the recent advances made in the peace process. The IRA provides the only objective, comprehensive history of the organization that has transformed the Irish nationalist movement during the past century. 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 backed up by interviews with past and present members of the organization, Tim Pat Coogan's book is an authoritative and compelling account of modern Irish history.

About this title

Review:

"No student of Irish history can afford to ignore this book. No scholar is likely to improve on it... A fascinating book, of the greatest possible value to us all..." --Times Literary Supplement

"The standard reference work on the subject..." --The New York Times

From the Back Cover:

The fourth edition of this most authoritative study takes the IRA story of infliction and endurance from its origins in the nineteenth century to today's peace process. Completely revised and updated, it provides not only a history of the IRA but an understanding of modern Ireland, of the complex Anglo-Irish relationship and of the religious and social forces from which the IRA evolved.

Tim Pat Coogan provides detailed information on everything connected with the IRA, form its training and court martial proceedings, to how its volunteers and prisoners think and act, to in-depth portrait of Sinn Fein president, Gerry Adams.

'The IRA' is the most comprehensive and objective book on the subject. It is essential reading for everyone with an interest in Ireland's history, and its future.

"A very sensible and fair-minded assessment of a uniquely controversial organisation."
THE TIMES

"No student of Irish history can afford to ignore this book.
No scholar is likely to improve upon it... A fascinating book, of the greatest possible value to us all"
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

"A positive contribution to contemporary Irish history...
with clarity, insight and a desire to be fair."
IRISH TIMES

"Remarkably comprehensive."
ECONOMIST

About this edition

• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0312294166
• ISBN 13: 9780312294168
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 864