The Gun in Politics : Analysis of Irish Political Conflict, 1916-86.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A Personal Memoir -- Part I: The IRA Past as Prologue -- 1. Arms and the Volunteer -- 2. The Thompson Submachine Gun in Ireland -- 3. Proliferation: Sophisticated Weapons and Revolutionary Options -- Part II: The Irish Past as Prologue: Patterns, Probes, Wars, and Warriors -- 4. Societal Patterns and Lessons -- 5. Ireland and the Spanish Civil War, 1936-39 -- 6. The Curragh: 1940-45 -- 7. The Shadow of the Gunman, 1969 -- 8. The Secret Army, 1969 -- Part III: The Ulster Troubles Since 1969: Old Myths, Old Realities, and Alien Perspectives -- 9. The Escalation of Insurgency, 1969-71 -- 10. Strategy, Tactics, and Terror, 1969-74 -- 11. Men with Guns: The Legitimacy of Violent Dissent -- 12. Revolts Against the British Crown -- 13. On Revolt: An Irish Template -- 14 Democracy and Armed Conspiracy, 1922-77 -- 15. Terrorism: Nets and Oceans -- 16. Terror International: The Nature of the Threat -- 17. Hostage Ireland, 1976, 1982 -- Part IV: The Ulster Troubles: New Surveys, New Problems, and Analytical Perspectives -- 18. Terrorism International: Academic Branch -- 19. Contemporary Irish Archival Resources -- 20. The Chroniclers of Violence in Northern Ireland: The First Wave, 1972 -- 21. The Chroniclers of Violence in Northern Ireland Revisited, 1974 -- 22. The Troubles as Trash: Shadows of the Irish Gunman on America -- Epilogue: A Political Memoir -- Index.

Irish history sounds a long litany of grievance and vengeance--lost battles, escaped earls, and institutionalized injustice.

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