Armed Struggle: The History of the IRA - Richard English
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The IRA has been a much richer, more complexly layered, and more protean organization than is frequently recognized. It is also more open to balanced examination now - at the end of its long war in the north of Ireland - than it was even a few years ago.
Richard English’s brilliant audiobook offers a detailed history of the IRA, providing invaluable historical depth to our understanding of the modern-day Provisionals, the more militant wing formed in 1969 dedicated to the removal of the British Government from Northern Ireland and the reunification of Ireland. English examines the dramatic events of the Easter Rising in 1916 and the bitter guerrilla war of 1919-21, the partitioning of Ireland in the 1920s, and the Irish Civil War of 1922-23. Here, too, are the IRA campaigns in Northern Ireland and Britain from the 1930s through the 1960s. He shows how the Provisionals were born out of the turbulence generated by the 1960s civil rights movement, and examines the escalating violence that introduced British troops to the streets of Northern Ireland. He also examines the split in the IRA that produced the Provisionals, the introduction of internment in 1971, and the tragedy of Bloody Sunday in 1972.
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This post has 24 comments with rating of 4.9/5
April 29th, 2021
I’d rather pour hot lava in my ears than listen to this . Another glorification of criminals and murderers ;no doubt showing the British forces as evil fascists
April 29th, 2021
@martcorn well that’s mighty open minded of you
April 29th, 2021
Well I lost friends while serving there so my mind is slightly closed to be honest
April 30th, 2021
martcorn
You say serving others say occupying and there is the kernel of the issue
maybe after Brexit depending on how you voted you can understand wanting to determine your own future
April 30th, 2021
The terrible sadness of that struggle - and all like it - is that people didn’t lose friends alone, they lost close family, lovers, relatives, neighbours, acquaintances, work colleagues - fellow human beings, you know?
Closed minds, willed ignorance, lack of education, failure to understand - all of these things are not neutral, they cost lives.
April 30th, 2021
Well the big difference is that if I didn’t want Brexit ; I wouldn’t blow up shopping centres e.t.c.They where fighting against the law , not just of the U.K. but international law . I don’t have a closed a mind , lived there and know most people want to just get on with life . I had friends on both sides of the divide . I’m stating a fact that this is another book , “glamourizing ” the fight for freedom etc . How about a view from both sides ; like they did during truth and reconciliation talks
April 30th, 2021
Not an equivalent case - unless the EU was regularly burning you out of your home, persecuting you on religious grounds, organising sectarian pogroms & murders, denying you employment & housing as a result of more closed-minded bigotry, policing you on a solely sectarian basis, committing grave miscarriages of justice, interning you without trial, torturing you, and shooting up peaceful civil rights marches.
May 1st, 2021
@caesar963 well said
@martcorn, have a look at how the UK took over Ire;and from the start and over the years, the UK forces have been responsible for the deaths of many innocent people also both prior and during the troubles, supporting paramilitaries in murders also. Just need to look at the likes of BOTH Bloody Sundays in Dublin and Ireland. Ireland is more than just not wanting British Rule and more what the British Rule involved on the Irish population over hundreds of years.
May 1st, 2021
Well I don’t think a problem that has been going for over 30 years is going to get sorted on an audiobook torrent site ; so think we’ll leave it .
May 1st, 2021
@martcorn If you aren’t going to listen to the book how can you say that it’s glorifying the IRA? I don’t agree with violence but the British were absolute bastards to the Irish. It’s no wonder they took up arms.
May 1st, 2021
Facts are facts and it’s a sad fact that the British army regularly killed unarmed civilians and people on peaceful civil rights marches just to stamp their authority on the place.
May 2nd, 2021
Great share, many thanks indeed!
May 8th, 2021
UP THE IRA!
May 11th, 2021
Thank you!!!
May 21st, 2021
I was caught at a roadblock in N. Ireland once. Fella came to my window and asked “Would you be a Catholic or a Protestant, now?”. I looked, but couldn’t tell if I was dealing with IRA or a Protestant militia. I answered, “Well, actually, I’m an atheist.” Mr. Sectarian O’Kneecap considered for a moment and said “So, would you be a Catholic atheist, or a Protestant atheist?” It was then, through the foggy dew, that we heard the Angelus Bell over the Liffey’s swell. When Britannia’s Huns, with their long range guns showed up, I made a run for it. True story.
May 23rd, 2021
@martcorn: “But I am haunted by the human chimpanzees I saw along that hundred miles of country. I don’t believe they are our fault, I believe that there are not only more of them than of old, but that they are happier, better, more comfortably fed and lodged under our rule than they ever were. But to see white chimpanzees is dreadful; if they were black, one would not feel it so much, but their skins, except where tanned by exposure, are as white as ours.” - Charles Kingsley, “Church of England priest, university professor, social reformer, novelist and poet”, 1861 (just over 10 years after the potato famine).
FYI: Cornelius and Zira were not Irish …
Kingsley is not the exception, before or after. Remember the dominance of Northern English comedians in the ’70s? I do.
Typical start to ‘joke’: “A Paddy and a Paki walk into a bar …” Oh, and how the English audience would start roaring with laughter right there and then, they didn’t even wait for the ‘punchline’. Great TV fare for all the family. Ah, yes, the good ‘ol days …
If you think a people derisible and ‘racially’ inferior, generation unto generation (since well before the US was ‘discovered’), on top of the Unionist apartheid-style advantages, are you really surprised that SOME people with no way out turn to violence? (Also, Caesar963 above.)
I hope you don’t confuse any explanation of the social, economic and political forces behind the violence that casts England in a poor light as automatically a glamorization of violence simply because it undermines England’s ease of looking in the mirror.
You really ought to read your history.
I’m Irish (Dublin, now the US) and hold no truck with the IRA. NONE at all. But I know where they come from and it has more to do with England than anything else.
Perhaps you could get your hands on ‘Nothing But The Same Old Story: The Roots of Anti-Irish Racism’ from the ’80s, funded by the Greater London Council. There’s a lot of other good information out there for the reading.
By the way, the reviews for the book by The Times, Observer, Daily Telegraph, Independent, Times Literary Supplement etc are excellent (see Amazon book page). (Unfortunately the book was published in 2003: it would be nice to get an update.)
Lastly, (you may have trouble believing this), I have a great love for the great good in England: people and culture. I am sorry for your loss.
May 23rd, 2021
@Ridcu11y. True story? Wow … ‘cough’
Old joke, you mean. See https://buffalonews.com/news/in-belfast-how-do-you-tell-a-catholic-atheist-from-a-protestant-atheist/article_c2bf472e-f2f3-5b4c-b65a-918b743819b2.html
By the way, the Liffey river runs through Dublin, the capital of the Republic of Ireland, not Northern Ireland.
Angelus Bells are a nice touch, though … :)
May 23rd, 2021
I hate he internet. I mean, people can just look-up and verify stuff now. The other bits weren’t my fault as I had been listening to that poor, wee, misguided lass Sinead O’Connor’s version of “The Foggy Dew” with the Chieftains and she quite clearly sings:
“But the Angelus bell
o’er the Liffey’s swell
Rang out in the foggy dew”
This at least implies that the bells are within a certain distance of the place that the singer is otherwise she wouldn’t be able to hear them very well.
Then, of course, the action moves on to Dublin:
“Right proudly high over Dublin town
They hung out a flag of war”
Even though I am a real, actual, fat-American, I sincerely hope that no one takes offense to my errors.
May 23rd, 2021
*the internet
*the, dammit. Stupid messed-up keyboard, It’s all clogged-up with fat, and burgers, and fries (oops, meant chips), and bits of American (sub-standard) chocolate bars.
May 24th, 2021
@Ridcu11y in fairness I heard that joke many years ago. I only looked it up to confirm memory. That’s a known gag but a decent one. I hadn’t heard it in a long time and I laughed when I read your take on the gag.
You earned your burger …
Belfast or the North, though, not Dublin.
June 2nd, 2021
…Did martcorn seek out an illegal copy of an audiobook they haven’t listened to just to say they didn’t want to listen to it, to start an argument, then to proclaim this not a good venue for an argument?
That is so familiar. Martcorn, did we used to date?
July 31st, 2021
A wonderful retelling of a story too often hushed-down; that of a state created against the wish of it’s people explicitly for the reasons of Empire and apartheid (as Lord Carson, the pre-eminent Loyalist of his day put it - “A Protestant Parliament for a Protestant people”, in a country that was at the time 40% not Protestant) this is an important chronicle of the people the British state machine would paint as mindless monsters. This presents the simple truth - that the Irish people in Ulster voted for freedom and were denied, that they silently suffered apartheid for 50 years hoping for change, that when that change didn’t come they began a Civil Rights Movement based on Dr Martin Luther King’s in America, that that movement was attacked so often and so violently by Loyalist gangs that the British Army was called in to protect the marchers, and that instead that Army committed two mass-murders (that we know of) of innocent citizens within five months of each other - the Ballymurphy Massacre in Belfast and Bloody Sunday in Derry - catalyzing the Republican movement and reinvigorating the moribund IRA almost overnight, kicking off the civil war the British don’t like to call a civil war - the Troubles.
Speaking as a member of the Nationalist community who lost family to the predations of the odiously sectarian Royal Ulster Constabulary and who say families and children bullied by British soldiers on the streets of their quiet villages - by bigots and monsters with guns and heads full of ignorance and hate for the powerless and downtrodden - I can’t help but look at the views of men like martcorn and feel validated in the struggle. Men like him are hateful and hated thugs; it’s no wonder he and his peers brought war and predation to an already suffering people.
I can’t wait for us all to part, then we can finally move on with our lives. I dearly hope my mum and dad will be alive to see that day.
September 20th, 2021
Post Masters-degree studies have led to the pre-release of the historical simulation, ‘The Troubles’:
https://www.compassgames.com/product/the-troubles-shadow-war-in-northern-ireland-pay-later/
This simulation aims to present a nuanced and immersive experience of what was an internationally-significant conflict that spanned four decades, and saw the British Army’s longest deployment - to its own streets; it is similar to Labyrinth and A Distant Plain, designed by ex-CIA Volko Ruhnke: https://www.gmtgames.com/p-656-a-distant-plain-3rd-printing.aspx
http://thetroubles.uk/
June 2nd, 2024
Anyone willing to seed this lovely piece of historical analysis?
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