[…] extended appendix is of little value. The book also contains some clumsy factual errors: for example, the bombing of McGurk’s Bar was not, as Geraghty claims, ‘an IRA own goal’; and the Civil Rights movement was certainly not ‘a classic of Republican political deception’. Nevertheless there is much of interest in the main body […]
[…] McGrath held Sunday night meetings at his house in the University area, attended by up-and-coming Unionists. He forecast a holocaust in Ulster and portrayed liberal Unionists as IRA dupes. In 1969 he founded an Orange Lodge: in line with his claim that Protestants originally inhabited Ireland, its motto was in Gaelic. Several of the […]
[…] the political organisation, the Irish Republican Socialist Party which was allied to it. The IRSP had been established by a break away militant faction of the Official IRA, led by legendary Republican figure, Sean Costello, following the Official IRA’s ceasefire in 1974. INLA itself appears to have formed – initially as the Peoples’ Liberation […]
[…] admitted but not that. But since the Ulster Defence Association have spent the last couple of years fly-posting Belfast with photocopied police and intelligence files on the IRA, and we have learned that the UDA’s ‘intelligence officer’ in the 1980s, Brian Nelson, was an Army Intelligence agent, this is a pretty stupid line to […]
[…] and later had seven visits from a ‘Stuart Delroy’ who said he was born in Zambia and worked for the Institute. Na irac Linked to Killing of IRA Members in Republic? Security forces in Ulster are investigating claims (or looking the other way) that Capt. Robert Nairac was involved in the killing of IRA […]
[…] in Lobsters 13 and 15) and continues through the history of the Northern Irish conflict up until January 1990. It also covers the international connections of the IRA, in particular their links to Qadhafi, but excludes the Gibralter killings. Dillon sets the tone for his book in the Preface: ‘In the late 1960s and […]
[…] helped the Davis Campaign to capture the tabloid front page lead (2)despite such august opposition as the previous evening’s bombing of the Caterham Arms pub by the IRA. The assertion of Lobster and others that the IRA’s ‘big bombs’ inevitably and rightly pushed everything else into an abyss doesn’t always configure. It occurs to […]
[PDF file]: Killing Thatcher The IRA, the Manhunt and the Long War on the Crown Rory Carroll London: Mudlark (HarperNonFiction), 2023, £20, h/b Simon Matthews It’s nearly 40 years since the IRA tried to kill Margaret Thatcher. Written by Rory Carroll, Ireland correspondent for The Guardian, this book seeks to establish what actually happened. In doing […]
[…] innocent to inspire fear for political ends.” Which just about covers the whole of American foreign policy since the late 19th century, but only just includes the IRA, for example. (To his credit, the editor does not mention the IRA in his essay.) Yet elsewhere Paul Johnson does include the IRA (and, incidentally, offers […]
[…] Embassy in London in 1994 (information that would have helped the defence of the two convicted for this, see below); and that MI5 could have prevented the IRA bombing in Bishopsgate in 1993. He was found guilty and sentenced to 6 months imprisonment. For large archive of articles on Shayler see www.guardian.co.uk/shayler; see also […]
