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The IRA in Britain, 1919-1923 - 'In the Heart of Enemy Lines' (Paperback)
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The IRA in Britain, 1919-1923 - 'In the Heart of Enemy Lines' (Paperback)
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Between 1919 and 1923, Ireland was engulfed by violence as the
Irish Republican Army (IRA) fought a guerrilla campaign against the
British state and later fellow Irishmen and women in pursuit of an
Irish Republic. Police barracks and government offices were
attacked and burned, soldiers and policemen were killed and the
economic and social life of the country was dislocated. Britain
itself was a theatre in the war too. 'In the heart of enemy lines',
as one IRA leader put it, cities such as London, Liverpool,
Manchester, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Glasgow and their environs saw the
establishment of IRA companies, Irish Republican Brotherhood
circles, Cumann na mBan branches and Na Fianna Eireann troops.
Composed of Irish emigrants and the descendants of emigrants, these
organizations worked to help their comrades across the Irish Sea.
Their most important activity was gunrunning, acquiring and
smuggling weapons to Ireland. In November 1920, setting fire to
warehouses and timber yards in Liverpool, they launched a campaign
of violence. Meanwhile, mass-membership organizations such as the
Irish Self-Determination League of Great Britain and Sinn Fein
sought to persuade the British public of Ireland's right to
independence. Republican leaders such as Michael Collins, Rory
O'Connor and Liam Mellows took a keen interest in these exploits.
Making extensive use of archival sources and memoirs, The IRA in
Britain is the first book to study this little known aspect of the
Irish Revolutionary period. Tracing the history of the Irish
Volunteers in Britain from their establishment in 1914 and
participation in the Easter Rising two years later, through the
weapons' smuggling activities and violent operations of the War of
Independence to the bitter divisions of the Civil War and the
response of the authorities, The IRA in Britain highlights the
important role played by those outside of Ireland in the
Revolution.
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