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Turning points of the Irish Revolution : the British government, intelligence, and the cost of indifference, 1912-1921 /

In his exploration of the use of intelligence in Ireland by the British government from the onset of the Ulster Crisis in 1912 to the end of the Irish War of Independence in 1921, Grob-Fitzgibbon analyzes the role that intelligence played during those critical nine years. He argues that within that...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Grob-Fitzgibbon, Benjamin John
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Part I: The Period of Overt Militancy, 1912 to 1914
  • The Death of Constitutionalism in Ulster
  • The Rise of Militant Unionism
  • An Irish Nationalist Response
  • Enter the Politicians
  • To the Edge of the Abyss
  • A Failure of Governance
  • Part II: The Period of Clandestine Organization, 1914 to 1916
  • The Arming of the Irish Volunteers
  • A War Distracts from Trouble in Ireland
  • The Storm Clouds Gather
  • An Easter Rising and Its Aftermath
  • A Failure of Imagination
  • Part III: The Period of Guerilla War, 1916 to 1921
  • Business as Usual
  • A New Kind of Politics
  • Ireland's Fateful Year
  • An Unacknowledged Insurgency
  • Intelligence Reorganized
  • A Failure of Action.