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Cover Page
The Secret Army: The IRA
Copyright Page
Contents
Introduction to the Transaction Edition
Foreword to the 1979 Edition
Foreword to the 1970 Edition
Part I The Glorious Years: 1916–1927
I The Rising: The Republic Proclaimed, The Army Committed, April–September 1916
II The Tan War: The IRA Triumphant, September 1916–July 1921
III The Irregular Years: Schism, Terror, and Despair, June 1921–August 1923
IV The Legion of the Rearguard: The Response to Defeat, May 1923–August 1927
Part II The Cosgrave Years: 1927–1932
V The IRA Goes to Ground: Perseverance on the Road to the Republic, September 1927–February 1932
Part III The De Valera Years: 1932–1938
VI De Valera in Power: The Devil We Don’t Know, March 1932–June 1936
VII De Valera Pre-empts the Stage: The IRA without Direction, June 1936–March 1938
Part IV The War Years: 1938–1945
VIII The English Campaign: Bombs for Britain, April 1938–September 1939
IX The Momentum Ebbs: Conspiracy, Coercion, and Desperate Men, September 1939–April 1941
X Turmoil at the Centre: The Stephen Hayes Affair, April 1941–September 1941
XI The Edge of Chaos: Twilight of the Gunmen, October 1941–December 1944
Part V The Campaign Years: 1945–1969
XII The IRA Endures: The Agonizing Reconstruction, 1945–1951
XIII The IRA on the Move: The Great Arms Raids, 1951–1954
XIV The Campaign: The Build-up, 1954–1956
XV The Campaign: The IRA on the Offensive, December 1956–July 1957
XVI The Campaign: The IRA on the Defensive, August 1957–March 1962
XVII The Gun on the Shelf: The IRA in the Doldrums, March 1962–July 1969
Part VI
XVIII The North Explodes and the Army Divides
XIX The Rise of the Provos: 1970–1972
XX The Bloody Watershed, 1972–1974
XXI A War of Attrition, 1974–1979
Part VII
XXII The First Decade, The Nature of the Long War, 1979–1980
XXIII Unconventional Conflict, The Hunger Strikes, January 1980–October 3, 1981
XXIV The Protracted Struggle, September 1981–January 1984
XXV War, Politics, and the Split, January 1984–December 1986
XXVI The Troubles as Institution, 1987–1990
XXVII The Armed Struggle Transformed, 1991–1996, The End Game
Sources
Addenda 1979
Addenda 1996
Index
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