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IRA Internments and the Irish Government : Subversives and the State, 1939-1962 by John Maguire (2008, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherIrish Academic Press

ISBN-100716529440

ISBN-139780716529446

eBay Product ID (ePID)64430488

Product Key Features

Number of Pages274 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameIra Internments and the Irish Government : Subversives and the State, 1939-1962

Publication Year2008

SubjectPolitical Ideologies / Radicalism, World / European, Europe / Ireland

TypeTextbook

AuthorJohn Maguire

Subject AreaPolitical Science, History

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight16.7 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

Dewey Edition22

Dewey Decimal941.5

SynopsisExamines a neglected period in the history of the IRA and looks at the acceptability and success of internment as an expedient in the Irish government's ongoing struggle with republican subversive organisations during both the Second World War and the border campaign. The book looks at the reasons for the subsequent drift away from the use of this measure, despite its previous successes in containing the IRA threat to the Irish State. It draws extensively on previously unavailable primary source material in various archives in both Ireland and Britain. The oral testimony of many surviving contemporaries is supplemented by an in-depth examination of the files of the Irish government, thereby presenting a detailed political assessment of the events under consideration. In addition, the voluminous records relating to the Lawless Case held in the Attorney General's Office have been particularly valuable in documenting, for the first time, the unprecedented domestic legal proceedings in this landmark action. The book considers the overall impact of the Lawless Case in influencing the future direction of Irish counter-insurgency policy and the subsequent drift away from the use of internment as an acceptable expedient in the State's ongoing struggle with subversives.