by Daniel Finn
5. McCann, War and Peace in Northern Ireland, pp. 154–5.
6. Moloney, A Secret History of the IRA, pp. 426–7; Adams, Hope and History, pp. 181–3.
7. ‘TUAS Document’, p. 601.
8. Jonathan Powell, Great Hatred, Little Room: Making Peace in Northern Ireland, London 2008, p. 82; Sunday Times, 31 October 1999.
9. Fortnight, September 1994.
10. Irish Times, 29 August 1995.
11. Fortnight, January 1996.
12. Independent, 21 November 1994.
13. Irish Times, 12 July 1995.
14. Ibid., 31 August 1995.
15. Kevin Bean, The New Politics of Sinn Féin, Liverpool 2007, pp. 174–5.
16. Irish Times, 31 August 1995.
17. O’Brien, The Long War, pp. 347–54; Moloney, A Secret History of the IRA, pp. 438–41.
18. Irish Times, 5 April 1996.
19. O’Brien, The Long War, pp. 357–8.
20. Irish Times, 23 November 1996; O’Brien, The Long War, pp. 366–7; Moloney, A Secret History of the IRA, pp. 445–54.
21. O’Brien, The Long War, p. 369.
22. Chris Ryder and Vincent Kearney, Drumcree: The Orange Order’s Last Stand, London 2001, pp. 163–75.
23. O’Brien, The Long War, pp. 370–1.
24. Ryder and Kearney, Drumcree, pp. 133–4, 136, 247–8, 283, 295.
25. Mallie and McKittrick, The Fight for Peace, p. 382.
26. Irish Times, 31 May 1997; Adams, Hope and History, pp. 290–1.
27. O’Brien, The Long War, pp. 353–4.
28. Trimble’s inner circle of advisers included two alumni of the Workers’ Party, Paul Bew and Eoghan Harris, who had shared his youthful enthusiasm for the ‘Orange Marxism’ of the British and Irish Communist Organization.
29. Moloney, A Secret History of the IRA, pp. 475–9; O’Brien, The Long War, pp. 378–80.
30. Taylor, Loyalists, pp. 240–1.
31. O’Brien, The Long War, pp. 384–5.
32. Powell, Great Hatred, Little Room, pp. 9–13, 79–80.
33. Michael Cox, Adrian Guelke and Fiona Stephen, eds, A Farewell to Arms? Beyond the Good Friday Agreement, Manchester 2006, pp. 496–507, 511–12.
34. Mallie and McKittrick, Endgame in Ireland, pp. 259–77.
35. Godson, Himself Alone, pp. 327–37.
36. Powell, Great Hatred, Little Room, p. 104; Godson, Himself Alone, pp. 330–1; Adams, Hope and History, p. 365.
37. O’Brien, The Long War, p. 386.
38. Fortnight, June 2000.
39. ‘Gerry Adams Presidential Address to Sinn Féin Ard Fheis 1998’, 10 May 1998: sinnfein.ie, accessed 9 August 2018.
40. Moloney, A Secret History of the IRA, pp. 480–3.
41. ‘Gerry Adams Presidential Address’.
42. Tonge, The New Northern Irish Politics?, pp. 34–5.
43. O’Leary, ‘Mission Accomplished?’ p. 235.
44. Collins, Killing Rage, pp. 219–20, 295–6.
45. Anthony McIntyre, Good Friday: The Death of Irish Republicanism, New York 2008, p. 88.
46. Paul Dixon, ‘Guns First, Talks Later: Neoconservatives and the Northern Ireland Peace Process’, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, vol. 39, no. 4, November 2011.
47. Moloney, A Secret History of the IRA, pp. 494–5.
48. Ibid., pp. 505, 510–11.
49. Powell, Great Hatred, Little Room, pp. 314, 24–5.
50. Ibid., pp. 162–3.
51. Moloney, A Secret History of the IRA, p. 574.
52. Powell, Great Hatred, Little Room, pp. 204, 220–1.
53. The preface to Dean Godson’s monumental biography of David Trimble, Himself Alone, thanks George W. Bush’s speechwriter David Frum and the Iraqi politician Ahmed Chalabi, along with more familiar figures on the British conservative scene such as Michael Gove and Boris Johnson. In a paper for an Israeli think tank with close ties to Likud, Godson bemoaned the reluctance of Blair’s government to use the 9/11 attacks ‘as an excuse to engage in a crackdown on its own insurrectionists’. He also deplored the idea that Northern Ireland’s unionist majority would be permitted to leave the UK if they so desired: ‘The British state is well-nigh unique in advertising, quite openly, that it does not really mind if it is dismembered.’ Dean Godson, ‘Lessons from Northern Ireland for the Arab-Israeli Conflict’, Jerusalem Viewpoints, no. 523, 1–15 October 2004.
54. Moloney, A Secret History of the IRA, pp. 510–11.
55. O’Brien, The Long War, p. 391.
56. Powell, Great Hatred, Little Room, pp. 192–3, 203.
57. Fortnight, January 2000.
58. Ibid., May 2002.
59. Irish Times, 25 January 2003.
60. Ibid., 25 April 2003.
61. Moloney, A Secret History of the IRA, pp. 543–4.
62. Ibid., p. 556.
63. Sunday Tribune, 30 January 2000.
64. Adams, Hope and History, p. 106.
65. Godson, Himself Alone, pp. 524–32, 605–7, 614–16, 629–31.
66. Steven King, ‘In from the Cold: The Rise to Prominence of the Democratic Unionist Party Since 2003’, Irish Review, no. 38, 2008, pp. 6–7.
67. Sinn Féin, The Politics of Revolution, pp. 8, 11.
68. Bean, The New Politics of Sinn Féin, p. 151.
69. Ryder and Kearney, Drumcree, pp. 245–9.
70. Powell, Great Hatred, Little Room, p. 132.
71. Ibid., passim.
72. Irish Times, 25 April 2003.
73. Bean, The New Politics of Sinn Féin, pp. 199–202.
74. Sunday Tribune, 1 October 2000.
75. Tonge, The New Northern Irish Politics? p. 258.
76. Irish Times, 14 May 2004.
77. Tonge, The New Northern Irish Politics? pp. 230–3.
78. Cobain, The History Thieves, pp. 205–7.
79. Irish Times, 23 January, 29 January 2007.
80. Ibid., 10 May 2002.
81. Gerry Adams, The New Ireland: A Vision for the Future, Dingle 2005, pp. 40–8
82. An Phoblacht, 17 May 2007.
83. Ibid., 15 March 2007.
84. Irish Times, 20 February 2006.
85. Ibid., 30 April 2007.
86. Ibid., 2 June 2007.
87. Murray and Tonge, Sinn Féin and the SDLP, p. 261.
Epilogue
1. Bean, The New Politics of Sinn Féin, pp. 172–3.
2. Ibid., p. 177.
3. For political developments since 2008, see Daniel Finn, ‘Ireland on the Turn?’, New Left Review 67, Jan–Feb 2011, and ‘Irish Politics Since the Crash’, Catalyst, vol. 1, no. 2, Summer 2017.
4. An Phoblacht, 7 June 2008.
5. Eoin Ó Broin, Sinn Féin and the Politics of Left Republicanism, London 2009. For a more detailed assessment of Ó Broin’s work, see Daniel Finn, ‘Republicanism and the Irish Left’, Historical Materialism, vol. 24, no. 1, 2016.
6. Ó Broin, Sinn Féin and the Politics of Left Republicanism, pp. 292–95.
7. Ibid., pp. 296–7.
8. Ibid., p. 303.
9. Seán Ó Riain, The Rise and Fall of Ireland’s Celtic Tiger: Liberalism, Boom and Bust, Cambridge 2014.
10. ‘Gerry Adams Presidential Address to Sinn Féin Ard Fheis 2009’, 21 February 2009: sinnfein.ie, accessed 17 August 2018.
11. Paul Murphy et al., ‘Principles for a Left Alternative’, Irish Left Review, 28 May 2015. Sinn Féin also faced an electoral challenge in Northern Ireland from one of those groups, the People Before Profit Alliance. Nearly half a century after he first stood for election as a Labour candidate in Derry, Eamonn McCann won a seat for People Before Profit in the 2016 Assembly election.
12. Belfast Telegraph, 9 March 2015.
13. Stathis Kouvelakis, ‘Syriza’s Rise and Fall’, New Left Review 97, Jan–Feb 2016.
14. Irish Times, 15 November 2017.
15. David Gordon, The Fall of the House of Paisley, Dublin 2009.
16. Irish Times, 26 August 2015.
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br /> 17. Patrick Radden Keefe, ‘Where the Bodies Are Buried’, New Yorker, 16 March 2015.
18. Corbyn, John McDonnell, Tony Benn and Ken Livingstone are the only British politicians that Gerry Adams speaks of with any great affection in his memoir Hope and History. The excavation of Corbyn’s relationship with the Provos took a comical turn in the 2017 general election, when right-wing activists claimed to have found proof that he attended the funeral of Bobby Sands. The scruffy, bearded figure standing behind Adams in the photograph was in fact Jim Gibney.
19. Ó Broin, Sinn Féin and the Politics of Left Republicanism, p. 308.
Index
Act of Union, 9, 96
Adams, Gerry 5, 39, 44, 46, 70–2, 82, 84, 95, 98, 106, 107, 115, 130, 133, 137, 138, 144, 147, 155, 157, 161–3, 165, 169, 172, 174, 177, 179, 181–7, 190, 193, 195–7, 199, 202, 203, 205–9, 211, 212, 215–17, 222, 223, 225, 226, 239n16
Agnew, Kevin 103
Ahern, Bertie 205, 210, 211
Aiken, Frank 22
Alison, Michael 152
Ancram, Michael 196
Anglo-Irish Agreement (AIA) 164–5, 168, 186, 255n6
Anglo-Irish Treaty, 18–20, 21, 22, 158
Annesley, Hugh 204
Asmal, Kader 183
Asquith, Herbert 12, 15
Atkins, Humphrey 150
Attlee, Clement 37
Austin, Joe 179
Bagehot, Walter 196
Barnett, Anthony 66
Barnhill, John 243n27
Barr, Andy 42
Bean, Kevin 221
Behan, Brendan 29
Bell, Ivor 107, 141, 162
Benn, Tony 182, 262n18
Bennett, Jack (‘Claude Gordon’) 46, 235n61
Berry, Peter 31
Best, William 105
Bew, Paul 128, 168, 192, 259n28
Blair, Tony 204, 206, 207, 210, 216
Blaney, Neil 74
Blatherwick, David 150, 153, 159
Bonar Law, Andrew 14
Borodin, Mikhail 21
Boyle, Kevin 103
Breen, Suzanne 201, 213, 216
Breitman, George 61
Brennan, Michael 17
Brennan, Naomi 151
Brooke, Basil 35, 37, 38
Brooke, Peter 184
Bruton, John 201, 205, 206
Bunting, Ronald (Jr), 5, 58, 122, 124–5, 130,
Bunting, Ronald (Sr) 48, 58, 63, 122, 130
Bunting, Suzanne 130
Butt, Isaac 11
Cahill, Joe 40, 167
Callaghan, James 67, 76–8, 240n33
Cameron, David 101, 102, 225
Canavan, Tony 115
Carron, Owen 151, 152, 157, 251n80
Carson, Edward 14, 46
Castro, Fidel 7
Chichester-Clark, James 64, 65, 82, 86, 240n33
Clark, George 45, 235n60
Clifford, Brendan 128
Collins, Michael 18–21, 33
Connolly, James 13, 15, 21, 30, 73, 178, 222
Connolly, Roddy 21
Conway, Kieran 31, 85, 115, 241n83
Corbyn, Jeremy 182, 225, 262n18
Cory, Peter 217
Cosgrave, William 22, 23
Costello, Seamus 5, 31, 33, 34, 71, 72, 113, 121, 125, 129, 131, 144, 151, 174
Coughlan, Anthony 32, 42, 47, 139, 178
Craig, James 14, 18, 22, 36, 48
Craig, William 39, 43, 51–3, 55, 59, 104, 116, 128
Criminal Justice Act, 83
Crowe, Seán 218
Cruise O’Brien, Conor 46, 61
Currie, Austin 40, 45, 99
Daly, Miriam 146
Davis, Mike 108
De Rossa, Proinsias 169, 201
de Valera, Éamon 16, 18, 20, 23, 33, 223
Devenny, Samuel 65
Devine, Mickey 151, 152
Devlin, Bernadette. See McAliskey, Bernadette
Devlin, Paddy 38, 57, 81, 90, 99, 149
Donaldson, Denis 213
Dowling, Peter 137, 153
Downing Street Declaration, 195, 197, 206
Drumm, Jimmy 133, 136, 143, 255n10
Duddy, Brendan 99
Dunne, Derek 130
Farrell, Mairéad 177, 250n56
Farrell, Michael 5, 56, 60, 61, 64, 66, 84, 88, 92, 97, 103, 115, 116, 137, 139, 144, 156–8, 237n32, 242n13, 243n38, 246n11, 252n3
Faul, Denis 152
Faulkner, Brian 36, 64, 86, 91, 94, 99, 116–18, 172
Ferguson, Hugh 125
Ferris, Martin 218
Figg, Leonard 150, 152
Finucane, Pat 191–2, 218
Fitt, Gerry 40, 45, 48, 51, 76, 100, 149, 157
FitzGerald, Desmond 170
FitzGerald, Garret 120, 150, 152, 158, 164, 170, 183
Flynn, Bill 197
Foley, Gerry 113, 114, 146
Ford, Robert 100, 102, 103
Foster, Arlene 225, 226
Fox, Sean 125
Freeland, Ian 77, 78, 81
Gallagher, Eamonn 78, 94
Garland, Seán 5, 31, 33, 34, 71, 113, 121, 125, 128
Gibney, Jim 116, 136, 137, 143, 182, 185, 197, 262n18
Gilmore, Eamon 223
Gilmore, George 25, 30
Gladstone, William 11
Good Friday Agreement, 3, 188, 206, 209, 211, 212, 222, 224, 225
Goulding, Cathal 5, 29, 31–3, 42, 44, 46, 69, 71, 105, 106, 123, 125, 128, 131, 137, 139, 165, 167, 168, 200
Gove, Michael 225
Government of Ireland Act, 18, 19
Greaves, Desmond 42, 73, 178, 235n48, 235n61
Griffith, Arthur 12, 16, 18, 19, 23
Harris, Eoghan 128, 139, 259n28
Haughey, Charles 74, 150, 186
Heaney, Seamus 50
Heath, Edward 79, 82, 86, 91, 94, 105, 112, 118
Hendron, Joe 157, 195
Hillery, Patrick 67
Holland, Mary 189
Hughes, Brendan 82, 130, 146
Humphry, Derek 244n52
Jackson, Mike 102, 229n4
Johnson, Boris 225
Johnson, Johnny 136
Johnson, Thomas 20, 23
Johnston, Roy 32, 42, 47, 71, 73, 137, 139, 178, 243n27
Keenan, Brian 85, 141
Keenan, Seán 65
Kelley, Kevin 174
Kennedy, Geraldine 194
Kerr, Gordon (‘Colonel J’) 191
Kerrigan, Gene 130
King, Martin Luther 45, 52, 62
King, Steven 215
Kinnock, Neil 182
Kissinger, Henry 120
Lagan, Frank 99
Larkin, Jim 13, 15
Lawless, Gery 50
Lemass, Seán 38, 45
Lennon, Danny 134
Livingstone, Ken 158
Lloyd George, David 16
Lord Cameron (Cameron Report), 52, 55, 59, 237n48
Lord Lowry, 121
Lord Mountbatten, 142
Lord Saville (Saville Report), 101–2
Lord Widgery (Widgery Report), 101–2
Lynch, Jack 74, 90, 91, 94, 101
Lynch, Liam 17, 21
Mac Giolla, Tomás 31, 41, 46, 71, 73, 111, 114, 128
Mac Stíofáin, Seán 5, 32, 33, 46, 69, 71, 72, 96, 106, 107, 119
MacBride, John 17
MacBride, Seán 26, 33
MacCionnaith, Breandán 204
MacManus, Seán 183
MacNeill, Eóin 15
Maginnis, Ken 164
Maguire, Frank 147
Maguire, Tom 167
Major, John 188, 191, 194, 196, 200, 202, 204, 205
Mallie, Eamonn 188, 196
Mallon, Seamus 152, 163
Mansergh, Martin 217
Maudling, Reginald 82, 100
May, Theresa 226
McAliskey, Bernadette 5, 125, 129, 143–8, 151, 175, 181, 183, 248n87, 252n3
McAuley, Richard 137, 183
McCann, Eamonn 50–2, 56, 60, 64–6, 80, 82, 91, 92, 9
9, 137–9, 144, 151, 192, 193, 200, 243n38, 262n11
McCann, Joe 72, 105, 237n48
McCartney, Robert 214, 215
McCluskey, Con and Patricia 40
McConville, Jean 225
McCullough, Denis 13
McDonald, Mary Lou 218, 226
McDonnell, John 262n18
McGilligan, Patrick 23
McGirl, John Joe 167
McGlinchey, Dominic 174
McGrory, Paddy 197
McGuffin, John 137, 242n1
McGuinness, Martin 1, 5, 84, 86, 87, 95, 107, 141, 144, 155, 162, 166, 178, 180, 181, 202, 205, 211, 212, 216, 224, 226, 253n41
McGurran, Malachy 81, 95
McKay, Susan 224
McKee, Billy 40, 72, 74, 79, 82, 85
McKenna, Seán 146
McKevitt, Michael 205, 209
McKittrick, David 190, 196
McLoughlin, Mitchell 185
McManus, Frank 98, 103
McMillen, Billy 29, 39, 40, 51, 70, 72, 95, 124–6, 129
McNamara, Kevin 182, 193, 206
Meehan, Martin 72, 74, 96, 128
Mellows, Liam 21, 25, 222
Merrigan, Matt 183
Millar, Frank 161
Mitchell, George 205
Moloney, Ed 140, 141, 161, 172, 181, 193, 194, 211, 212
Molyneaux, James 161
Moore, Brian (‘Cormac’) 137
Moran, D.P. 9
Morrison, Danny 5, 133, 136, 138, 139, 155, 157, 158, 160, 162, 163, 165, 170, 182, 183, 189, 197, 256n61
Moylan, Seán 17
Murphy, William Martin 13
Nairn, Tom 2
Neave, Airey 130, 147
Nelson, Brian 191, 192
Noonan, Michael 179
Nugent, Kieran 135
Ó Brádaigh, Ruiari 5, 26, 27, 32, 34, 69, 70, 85, 95, 96, 106, 111, 120, 121, 137, 140, 157, 166, 167, 208
Ó Broin, Eoin 222, 226
Ó Caoláin, Caoimhghín 218
Ó Conaill, Dáithí 106
Ó Dochartaigh, Niall 67
Ó hAdhmaill, Féilim 216
Ó Snodaigh, Aengus 219
Ó Tuathail, Seamus 242n1
O’Connell, Daniel 9
O’Connor Power, John 11
O’Donnell, Peadar 25
O’Duffy, Eoin 21
O’Hare, Gerry 103
O’Hare, Rita 83
O’Higgins, Kevin 21, 23, 24
O’Malley, Padraig 207
O’Neill, Michelle 226
O’Neill, Terence 38, 39, 45, 50, 51, 54, 62, 64, 76
O’Rawe, Richard 209, 251n80
Oatley, Michael 84, 201
Paine, Tom 8
Paisley, Ian 40, 45, 48, 51, 58–60, 64, 76, 116, 130, 161, 202, 207, 210, 224
Parnell, Charles Stewart 11
Patten, Chris 210, 218
Patterson, Henry 61, 128, 168
Pearse, Patrick 15, 30