A state in denial : British collaboration with loyalist paramilitaries / Margaret Urwin.

Author
Urwin, Margaret [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Cork : Mercier Press, [2016]
  • ©2016
Description
320 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm

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    Secret British Army units, mass sectarian screening, propaganda 'dirty tricks', the arming of sectarian killers and a point-blank refusal to outlaw the largest loyalist killer-gang in Northern Ireland, all point to the incontrovertible fact that collaboration did exist between successive British governments and loyalist paramilitaries. Tactics such as curfew and internment were imposed almost exclusively on the nationalist population of Northern Ireland. Based on official British and Irish declassified documents from the 1970s and early 1980s, this book explores the tangled web of relationships between British government ministers, senior civil servants, leading police and military officers, and UDA and UVF paramilitaries. The documents provide evidence of more than a decade of official tolerance, and at times encouragement, of loyalist paramilitaries, leading to horrifying results and prolonging the conflict in Northern Ireland. Yet the authorities in London continue to deny such links. Britain truly is a state in denial. -- Publisher description
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-312) and index.
    Contents
    • From conflict origins to internment and direct rule
    • The first IRA ceasefire and the repercussions of its breakdown
    • Arming the loyalists
    • Ireland v United Kingdom (European Commission of Human Rights)
    • Loyalists torpedo the Northern Ireland power-sharing executive
    • The new IRA ceasefire and the Loyalist backlash
    • Discrimination in 'screening' and the power of propaganda
    • Civil war? The 'official' arrival of the SAS and 'Ulsterisation'
    • UDA murders of high-profile republicans
    • RUC raids on UDA headquarters embarrass the British government
    • Conclusion.
    ISBN
    • 9781781174623 ((paperback))
    • 1781174628
    LCCN
    2016497216
    OCLC
    962433830
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