Table of Contents:
  • Beginnings to 1969
  • The Origins of the IRA
  • Dilemmas of Violence and Politics
  • The Triumph of Fianna Fail
  • The IRA's Foreign Links
  • The Bombing Campaign
  • Years of Disaster
  • The IRA in the North
  • The Years of the Curragh
  • The IRA and the Nazis
  • Republic and Republicans: I
  • Republic and Republicans: II
  • Prelude to the Border Campaign
  • Splits in the Ranks
  • The Border Campaign: 1956-62
  • New Initiatives: 1962-70
  • 1969-1979
  • The Roots of the Conflict
  • The Constitutional Participants in the Drama
  • The Provisional IRA
  • the Rebirth of a Movement
  • The British Campaign
  • Response to Violence
  • Prison: Riots, Escapes, Unlucky Freedoms, Personalities and a Place Called Crossmaglen
  • Hunger Striking: the IRA Reach Beyond the Bars
  • Arms
  • The Use of Torture
  • Sectarian Murder
  • Return to Secrecy and Discipline
  • 1979-1986
  • The Ignition of the Crisis
  • Five Demands and Hunger Strikes
  • The Test of the Ballot Box
  • Bombs in Britain and Counter-Insurgency
  • Action in Ireland
  • The INLA: 1980-93
  • The Green Book
  • 1986-1993
  • The Enemy of My Enemy is My Friend
  • Gerry Adams
  • Peace Comes Dropping Slow
  • From Despair to Hope
  • Ireland
  • Northern Ireland
  • Belfast.