TY - BOOK AU - McKearney,Tommy TI - The provisional IRA: from insurrection to Parliament SN - 9781849645966 AV - DA914 .M35 2011eb U1 - 941.60824 23 PY - 2011/// CY - London, New York, NY PB - Pluto Press, Distributed in the United States by Palgrave Macmillan KW - Provisional IRA KW - History KW - Irish Republican Army KW - Sinn Fein KW - fast KW - Terrorism KW - Northern Ireland KW - 20th century KW - Violence KW - Ireland KW - Terrorisme KW - Irlande du Nord KW - 20e siècle KW - Irlande KW - Histoire KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE KW - Political Freedom KW - bisacsh KW - Politics and government KW - 1968-1998 KW - 1998- KW - Politique et gouvernement KW - Electronic book KW - Electronic books KW - gtlm N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: from orange state to sectarian state / Paul Stewart -- Police batons respond to demand for civil rights -- Unionist determination to deny democracy -- The violent storms of August '69 -- Widespread conflict looms -- An emerging force -- Training people for insurrection? -- Attempting to quell the insurgency by bloodshed and blandishment -- Irish republicanism and class -- The political and military strategy of the Provisional IRA -- The war in England -- Britain's response -- Reviewing stategy in the mid-1970s -- The gradual adoption of parliamentarianism -- Options and opportunities -- The road less travelled ... the left alternative -- Parliamentary Sinn Féin, 'surrender and re-grant' -- From armalites to populist conformity -- General election upset in the South -- The end of a journey -- A new republic and a relevant republicanism N2 - A IRA hunger striker imagines the future of Irish Republicanism UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1566498 ER -