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The IRA
This updated edition of the best-selling history of the IRA now includes behind-the-scenes information on the recent advances made in the peace process. 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. Meti...more
Paperback, 864 pages
Published
January 5th 2002
by Palgrave Macmillan
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The first edition of this book was published in 1969, and the pre-1969 text takes up slightly more than half of my fourth edition from 1994. This earlier core is an excellent historical analysis of a paramilitary movement which had at one point been central to Irish politics and had steadily been moved more and more to the fringes, as decade after decade crucial members of the leadership either defected to democratic politics or died (often through violence). Coogan has got deeply into his subje...more
I finally slogged my way through this beast. The cover is pretty close to the best part.
Full Disclosure: Since first learning about the Irish Republican Army I have been curious in a romantic sort of way. I was first introduced to the The Troubles when visiting London for the first time in 1992. At the formative age of 11 my interest was piqued when I saw Heathrow swarming with machine gun armed police and repetitive warning messages about unattended bags. We were no longer in pre-S...more
Full Disclosure: Since first learning about the Irish Republican Army I have been curious in a romantic sort of way. I was first introduced to the The Troubles when visiting London for the first time in 1992. At the formative age of 11 my interest was piqued when I saw Heathrow swarming with machine gun armed police and repetitive warning messages about unattended bags. We were no longer in pre-S...more
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Coogan is an Irish Times journalist whose family was involved in most of the more recent events of the last century. His writing is informed by a sense that he may know many of the principals of the story he sketches. I came away with a deeper understanding of the driving forces within the IRA itself and a sense of the links between it and its supporters in the republican community.
Tim Pat Coogan will never be accused of being an historian but he writes well, knows (and knew) a lot about the IRA and hit the timing mark perfectly with the first edition of "The IRA" which came from the printers just as British forces were landing in Northern Ireland and the IRA made a comeback. Would give this book a 2.5 if possible.
A compelling history of the IRA with information on the peace process at the time of its writing. For anyone interested in Irish history, Republican politics and the "troubles," this is a must-read.
See my review of Coogan's book Michael collins. Coogan proves to be even a clumsier writer here than in his other book. But once agin, the sublect matter, the IRA, makes it worthwhile to read.
Today Ireland is gorged with prosperity and the EEC makes one wonder what all the fight was about. In any event the Irish catholics in Ulster will win the issue of unification in the bedroom as the Prods become a minority over time even in the area that they gerrymandered to continue Protesta...more
Today Ireland is gorged with prosperity and the EEC makes one wonder what all the fight was about. In any event the Irish catholics in Ulster will win the issue of unification in the bedroom as the Prods become a minority over time even in the area that they gerrymandered to continue Protesta...more
This book is very tough to get through because it's so dense. The IRA is a very complex organization and I am feeling overwhelmed at the number of names and dates. I think I should have started with a more general history before I tried to dive into this encyclopedic review of such a complicated group.
i would call this an exhaustive study of the history of the IRA. seemed like it took a whole year to read. i wanted to learn more about this century long struggle and now i know about every god damn bombing or botched attack that ever happened. ask me something about the IRA. anything.
WONDERFUL! Coogan's father worked for/with Michael Collins so he has a first hand knowledge of many witnesses and sources that others do not!
Haven't finished it. Don't plan to anytime soon. But Tim Pat has put it ALL there to be whittled down bit by bit.
So far, really dry.... I am fascinated by this subject, too.
You got to break a few eggs to ruin a breakfast.
Comprehensive, though often too chronological.
very comprehensive work on the "troubles"
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Timothy Patrick Coogan is an Irish historical writer, broadcaster and newspaper columnist. He served as editor of the Irish Press newspaper from 1968 to 1987. Today, he is best known for his popular and sometimes controversial books on aspects of modern Irish history, including The IRA, Ireland Since the Rising, On the Blanket, and biographies of Michael Collins and Éamon de Valera.
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