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A state in denial : British collaboration with loyalist paramilitaries / Margaret Urwin.
Author
Urwin, Margaret
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Format
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Language
English
Published/Created
Cork : Mercier Press, [2016]
©2016
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320 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
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Firestone Library - Stacks
DA990.U46 U767 2016
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Paramilitary forces
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Northern Ireland
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History
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20th century
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Ulster Defence Association
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Ulster Volunteer Force
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Summary note
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
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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.
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ISBN
9781781174623 ((paperback))
1781174628
LCCN
2016497216
OCLC
962433830
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