The arms trial
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0717130622
ISBN 13
9780717130627
LCCN
KDK 104 .H38
Category
Ireland
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Publication Year
2000
Publisher
Pages
xviii, 285 pages
Subject
Ireland
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Abstract
In May 1970, two Irish Cabinet ministers, Neil Blaney and Charles Haughey, were dismissed by the Taoiseach, Jack Lynch, for allegedly using Government money to import arms for the fledgling IRA. It was the early days of the Northern Ireland troubles and the crisis in Belfast and Derry threatened to destabilise the entire island.<BR>This dramatic moment in modern Irish life if now retold in detail for the first time. The Arms Crisis split the Dublin establishment and briefly threatened the stability of the Republic of Ireland. It nearly finished the career of Charles Haughey, the most prominent and charismatic of the defendants, who spent most of the 1970s in the political wilderness before staging a stunning come-back to power in 1979. Justin O'Brien's account of the Arms Crisis reads like fiction. But it is fact. - from Amzon
Description
Content:
1. The Retreat from Certainty: Civil Rights and Revolutionary Thinking -- 2. We Will Not Stand By: The Impact of August 1969 -- 3. Reasserting Control: The Infiltration of the Defence Committees -- 4. Patriot Games: The Arms Crisis -- 5. Debating Treason: Closing the Net -- 6. Northern Realities: The Rise of the Provisional IRA -- 7. Nobody Shouted Stop: The Dublin Arms Trials -- 8. Provisional Verdict
1. The Retreat from Certainty: Civil Rights and Revolutionary Thinking -- 2. We Will Not Stand By: The Impact of August 1969 -- 3. Reasserting Control: The Infiltration of the Defence Committees -- 4. Patriot Games: The Arms Crisis -- 5. Debating Treason: Closing the Net -- 6. Northern Realities: The Rise of the Provisional IRA -- 7. Nobody Shouted Stop: The Dublin Arms Trials -- 8. Provisional Verdict
Biblio Notes
Includes bibliographical references (pages [268]-273) and index.
Item donated by Graham Price.
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Item donated by Graham Price.
Categorized by publisher, then author, then date.
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