IRA Internments and the Irish Government: Subversives and the State, 1939-1962

by John Maguire

Examines a neglected period in the history of the IRA and looks at the acceptability and success of internment as an expedient in the Irish government's ongoing struggle with republican subversive organisations during both the Second World War and the border campaign. The book looks at the reasons for the subsequent drift away from the use of this measure, despite its previous successes in containing the IRA threat to the Irish State. It draws extensively...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0716529432
• ISBN13: 9780716529439
• Release Date: May 2008
• Publisher: Irish Academic Press
• Length: 274 Pages