The Secret Army: The Ira 1916-1979
J. Bowyer Bell
496 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 185371027X
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Language: English
Publish: January 1, 1990
The Secret Army traces the history of the IRA from its roots in the eighteenth-century republicanism of Wolfe Tone to the glorious years of 1916-1921, and on through the thirties and World War II, to the fifties campaign, the quieter sixties, and the eruption of violence since then.