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by Ed Moloney


  People’s Democracy (PD), 64–65, 202, 354–55

  phoenix, 7, 85, 87

  Pilling, Joe, 573–74

  Pius XII, 41

  plantation of Ulster, 39, 308, 353

  Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI), 486, 523–24, 527, 537, 539, 550, 552, 580

  see also RUC

  Political Affairs Bureau, see Northern Ireland Office (NIO)

  political status, 189, 434

  see also special-category status

  population movement, 68

  Portlaoise jail, 158, 164, 179, 482

  Powell, Jonathan, 497, 510

  power-sharing Assembly (1974) 10, 128–29, 199

  see also Sunningdale agreement

  Price, Dolours, 126–28, 405

  Price, Marion, 126–28, 405

  Prince of Wales Own Regiment, 356, 358

  Prior, James, 210, 215, 219, 234, 291

  Prisoners Dependants Fund, 311

  prison protests, 189–90, 201, 205–6

  see also hunger strikes

  Progressive Democrats, 274, 462, 495, 544

  Provisional IRA:

  arms smuggling, 3–6, 15–20, 107, 114–15, 141, 162, 171, 265

  Cage 11 reorganization, 148–65, 167, 185, 196, 203, 334, 401

  active-service units (ASUs)/cell structure, 157, 171–72, 177, 317–18, 332, 377

  Civil Administration (Administrative IRA), 152–53

  “Green Book,” 154–55

  “long war” doctrine, 150–51, 185, 290

  Northern and Southern Commands, 159–61

  “permanent leadership,” 157–58, 375

  Revolutionary Council, 154, 160, 169, 171

  and civilian casualties, 341–43, 389

  Constitution 1986/1996, 602–608

  early politics, 75, 77, 79–80

  Eire Nua debate, 181–83

  electoral politics, 199–203

  end of war statement July 2005, xiii, 558, 641–42

  Executive, 165, 293, 378–79, 445

  and cease-fires:

  1994–96, 438–41, 449–55

  1997, 465, 468–72, 477–79

  and Mitchell principles, 473–77, 609–11

  finance, 433–34, 459–61, 515, 545

  and internment, 100–103

  and interparty talks, 467, 470

  in Libya, 6–15

  and Mister Eddie, 9–12

  Libyan weaponry, 17–20, 250, 288, 294, 326–27, 333, 383–84, 386–88, 406, 432

  MacStiofain strategy, 85, 88

  and McCartney killing, 550–55

  operations, 107, 112, 173

  Abercorn bomb, 111

  Andersonstown RUC station, 243, 317

  Australian tourists, 344

  Ballygawley, 314

  Birches, the, 314

  Bloody Friday, 116–18

  building contractors, 314

  businessmen, 185

  Brighton bomb, 247

  Campbell, Jimmy, 244, 317

  Canary Wharf, 441–42, 497

  Castlereagh raid, 523, 526, 544–46, 563, 572

  cigarettes, 543

  City of London, 411

  Cochrane, Thomas, abduction, 219–24

  Colombia, xiii, 489, 493, 496, 504–5, 510–13, 526, 530, 544, 556

  commercial bombing campaign, 100, 103, 459

  Daily Mirror, 100

  Dalkey robbery, 513–15

  drug dealers, 437, 440

  Dunmurry robbery, 543

  Enniskillen, 32, 340–42, 347

  Falls Road swimming baths, 341–42, 347

  flying columns, 312–14, 333–34

  Four Square Laundry, 119–21

  Gibraltar, 256, 329–32, 337, 526

  Gow, Ian, 336

  Graham, Edgar, 243, 317

  Hammersmith bridge, 443

  Hanna family, 341–42, 347

  Heathrow Airport mortars, 424

  Howe, Geoffrey, 331–32

  human bombs (Coshquin), 347–50, 350, 556

  Iceland (supermarket chain), 543

  Johnston, Gillian, 341

  Kingsmills massacre, 320–21

  La Mon, 172–73, 380

  Limerick, 515

  Lisnaskea school bus bomb, 341–42, 347

  Little Donegall Street, 116

  London bombs, 126–28, 173

  London bus bomb, 443

  Loughgall, 255, 304–5, 314

  Manchester bomb, 443

  McCabe, Garda, 547

  McConville, Jean, 122–25

  Mountbattan, Lord Louis, 175–77

  Narrow Water ambush, 176–77

  Newry post office robbery, 433–34, 499

  Northern Bank robbery, 536–39, 543–48, 553, 555–57, 560, 563, 565, 568, 573, 582

  prison guard killings, 206

  punishment shootings, 513

  reprisal killings, 319–24

  Restorick, Stephen, 456–57

  Rheindahlen bomb, 329

  Roslea attack, 333–34

  Royal School of Music bomb, 336

  Sefton, James, 343, 347

  Shankill Road bomb, 414–15

  Shergar kidnapping, 242

  Stormont spy ring, 524–25, 544–46, 563, 572–73, 580

  Teebane bomb, 345–46

  “Tet offensive,” see “Tet offensive” (Provisional IRA)

  Thiepval barracks bomb, 444–45, 458

  Tidey, Don, kidnapping, 242, 385

  Tohill, Bobby, 541

  Travers, Mary, 243–44, 317

  policing, 153

  politics vs. armed struggle, 79–80, 151–52, 240–45, 290, 299, 339–40, 342–44, 349, 389–90, 457, 472

  see also “Armalite and ballot box” strategy

  PSNI, attitude to, 585, 587–90

  security unit (internal security department), 29–31, 156, 334–36, 574–76

  shift to the left, 184–89, 197

  split (1997), 479, 506–7, 517

  start of Provisionals, 71–72

  structures, 376–80

  weaponry:

  AK47 rifles, 3, 19–20, 24, 160, 328, 387–88, 514

  Armalites, 113–14, 138, 162

  Barrett Light 50, 339, 456, 459

  car bombs, 115–16

  coffee jar bombs, 366–67

  culvert bombs, 339

  DHSK machine guns (“Dushkies”), 3, 20, 23, 328

  incendiary bombs, 173

  Kalashnlkov, 562

  land mines, 116

  Lewis gun, 113

  106 millimeter cannons, 22

  radio-controlled bombs, 160, 177, 339

  RPG-7 rocket launchers, 20, 138, 199

  SAM-7 missiles, 3, 19, 21–23, 25, 328

  Semtex, 4–6, 20, 22–23, 329–30, 333, 367, 443, 489

  Taurus automatic pistols, 19

  Webley revolvers, 20, 328

  women in republican movement, 204, 376

  Qaddafi, Hana, 14

  Qaddafi, Colonel Muammar, 353–64

  and Cage 11 proposals, 153–54

  IRA liaison, 3–4, 6–14, 24, 138, 288, 292, 328–29, 487, 561

  Qaddafi, Sadi, 24

  Quakers, 364

  quartermaster’s (QM) department (Provisional IRA), 377–78, 447, 450

  Queen’s Own Highlanders, 176

  Quinn, John, 324

  Rainbow Coalition, 436, 458

  Ramaphosa, Cyril, 503

  Rankin, Ernest, 321

  Reagan, Ronald, 13, 16

  Real IRA, 479, 505, 507–9, 514–15, 573

  Redemptorist Congregation, 71, 228–31, 235, 260

  and Reid initiative, 234–35, 269, 274, 283, 297

  see also Clonard Monastery; Reid, Father Alec

  Red Mole, 186

  Rees, Merlyn, 200

  Reid, Father Alec, 256, 281, 283, 364, 411, 428, 433, 458, 484, 560, 562, 631–40

  and British dialogue, 246, 247–50, 255–60

  and Cochrane abduction, 220–21, 224–25, 486
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  and Haughey contact, xv, 262, 268–77, 280, 289, 293–94, 297, 395, 422, 520, 615–28

  and Hume contact, 277, 279

  Irish government contacts, 278, 285, 422, 435

  King/Brooke mediation, 394, 396, 406

  peace initiative, xv, 224–25, 231–41, 245, 255, 505

  and republican prisoners, 226–28

  Reid, Billy, 95

  Reid, John, 503, 510

  Reid-Adams initiative, 369, 394, 406, 412–13, 484, 560, 568, 579

  Catholic Church contacts, 231–38

  dialogue with British, 247–60

  Haughey contact, 263, 269–78, 280–84, 297

  national self-determination in, 270, 272, 275, 282, 284, 298

  “stepping stones,” 275–76, 281–82, 284, 297, 336, 400, 629–38

  Reiss, Mitchell, 542, 553, 555

  Relatives Action Committees, 201

  Republican Clubs, 167, 311, 358

  “Republican family, the,” 42

  republican feuds, 96–97, 106, 147, 167–68

  Republican Labour party, 354

  Republican News (RN), 75, 151, 170, 186, 335, 570

  see also An Phoblacht-Republican News

  Republican Sinn Fein (RSF), 289, 507

  Restorick, Stephen, 456–57

  Revolutionary Council (Provisional IRA), 160, 167–69, 171, 178–79, 182, 200, 403

  curbing IRA, 343–45

  set up, 153–54

  Reynolds, Albert, 434–35, 462

  as taoiseach, 278, 285, 399, 404, 408, 427

  and Downing Street Declaration, 412–13, 416–17, 419

  and Hume-Adams document, 409, 411–12

  and 1994–96 cease-fire, 422, 424–25, 428–29

  Reynolds, Father Gerry, 422

  Rheindahlen bomb, see Provisional IRA: operations, Rheindahlen bomb

  Rice, Condoleeza, 531

  Rice, J. J., 198

  Rigali, Justin (archbishop of St. Louis), 237

  Robinson, Peter, 280, 541

  Rockefeller, David, 420

  Roslea attack, see Provisional IRA: operations, Roslea attack

  Rourke, Mickey, 581

  Rowntree Trust, 364, 523

  Royal Hampshire Regiment, 365

  Royal Highland Fusiliers, 97

  Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC), 78, 287

  Royal Marines, 96

  Royal Scots Regiment, 86

  Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC), 153, 172, 184, 310, 316, 340, 436, 512

  attacks on IRA, 223, 244, 458

  in August 1969, 66–67, 81, 355–56

  and civil rights marches, 63, 352–54

  conflict with Catholics, 43, 46

  control of security, 144, 176

  in Derry, 350, 352, 355, 358–60

  Headquarters Mobile Support Unit, 305

  interrogation centers, 109, 133–34, 138, 145, 149, 154–55, 523

  IRA attacks on, 38, 41, 223, 304, 336, 338, 444

  and PRG, 365, 368–70

  reforms of, 85–86, 486–87

  Special Branch, 15, 29–30, 39, 100, 109, 164, 334–35, 430, 442, 577, 579

  see also Police Service for Northern Ireland (PSNI)

  RTE (Radio Telefis Eireann), 354, 579

  Rupert, David, 509, 573

  Russell, Sean, 48–49

  Ryan, Liam, 313–14, 316, 323

  Ryan, Michael “Pete,” 313–14, 318

  Ryan, Father Patrick, 137

  Sands, Bernadette, 439

  Sands, Bobby, 226, 293, 439, 577, 580

  Fermanagh-South Tyrone by-election (1981), 202, 210–14, 529, 567

  hunger strike, 12, 202, 208–9, 213, 228, 558, 566

  Saoirse, 56, 78

  Saor Uladh (Free Ulster), 310

  SAS (Special Air Services), 255, 317, 330

  in Tyrone, 304–5, 316, 318–19, 322, 526

  Savage, Sean, 330

  Saville, Lord, 548–49

  Scappaticci, Freddie, see informers/security breaches (Provisional IRA): Scappaticci, Freddie

  Scarman, Lord, 68

  Schultz, George, 420

  Schwab, George, 421

  Scotland Yard, 127

  Second Battalion (Provisional IRA), 87, 96, 99–101, 113, 119, 141, 199

  and Ballymurphy, 91–92, 95, 105

  Second Dail, 55, 287, 376, 379

  secret burials, see “disappeared”

  “securocrats,” 525, 544–45, 572–82

  Sefton, Eileen, 343, 347

  Sefton, James, 343, 347

  self-determination, see national self-determination

  Sens, Andrew, 560

  September 11, 2001, xiii, xxi, 490, 493, 497, 556

  Shankill Butchers, 146, 168, 221, 224

  see also Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF)

  Shankill Defence Association, 65

  Shankill Road, see Belfast: Shankill Road

  Shankill Road bomb, see Provisional IRA: operations, Shankill Road bomb

  Shergar kidnapping, see Provisional IRA: operations, Shergar kidnapping

  Shields, Diarmuid, 322

  Shields, Patrick, 322

  Shimeld, Phil, 186

  Shropshire conference, 504, 510

  Short Strand, see Belfast: Short Strand

  Sinn Fein (pre-1970), 50, 59, 72, 198, 287

  Sinn Fein (Provisional), xiii, xiv, 11, 79, 254, 259, 275, 277, 306, 310, 323, 325, 368, 379, 494, 496, 504, 511, 528, 544–46, 553, 564–65, 590

  abstentionism (ending of), 287–98, 328

  and anti-imperialist front, 300–301

  Ard Comhairle (1980), 593–97

  Ard Fheis, 549, (1986), 287–89, 292, 294–97, 519, (1998), 480–83, (2007) 590

  and arms decommissioning, 434, 436, 440, 499–500, 502–3

  British withdrawal policy, 271–72

  and cease-fires

  1974, 143–44

  1994, 429–33, 437–39

  councillors killed, 320–22

  and Downing Street Declaration, 417, 419

  and DUP deal, 539–42, 587–91

  Eire Nua debate, 181–83, 185–91

  and electoral politics, 128, 151, 197–98, 200–203, 210–15, 219, 223, 240–41, 245, 290–91, 297, 339–40, 343, 382, 390, 417, 442, 457–58

  formation, 72

  fund-raising in United States, 437, 460

  and Good Friday Agreement, 481–82, 484–86, 488

  and hunger strikes, 207, 209, 567

  and interparty talks, 455–58, 461–62, 465, 469, 474, 478

  and IRA armed struggle, 151–52, 216, 240–41, 245, 290, 297, 340, 342–46, 448, 459

  isolation of, 233–34

  and McCartney, Robert, 551–52, 555

  and McConville, Jean, 124–25

  meetings with SDLP, 278–80

  and National H Blocks Committee, 214–15

  and ni Elias, Christin, 191–95

  and pan-nationalist unity, 273, 298–99, 300, 435

  and peace process, 255, 268, 298, 390–91

  “Scenario for Peace, A” 298

  “Towards a Broader Base,” 299

  “Towards a Lasting Peace in Ireland,” 399–400

  and policing, xiv, 585, 587–90

  and women’s issues, 204–5

  Sinn Fein – The Workers Party, 291

  “Sixty-niners,” 80

  see also defender tradition

  Sjarmar, 19

  Slevin, Liam, 73

  Smyth, Reverend Martin, 532

  social and political change in 1960s, 52–54, 60–62, 64–65

  Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP), xiii, xiv, xxi, 102, 112, 129, 215, 239, 264, 299, 436, 440, 458, 483, 495, 518, 529–30, 558, 569–70

  and Anglo-Irish Agreement, 241, 339

  elections, 202, 212, 214, 340, 535, 540–41, 563–64, 590

  and Hume-Adams process, 277–80, 297, 395

  and pan-nationalist unity, 273, 423

  and power-sharing Assembly, 128–29, 138, 199

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  socialism, 184, 186, 270, 386

  Soderburg, Nancy, 424, 490

  sos, the, 429, 438, 445, 448–49, 469–72, 477

  South Armagh Brigade (Provisional IRA), 161, 210

  operations, 177, 220, 262, 411, 433, 441–43, 456, 459, 499

  South Armagh Republican Action Force, 146

  South Armagh Republican Reaction Force, 320

  Southern Command (Provisional IRA), 157–58, 377, 438–39, 449

  special-category status, 144, 189, 434

  Special Powers Act (SPA), 39, 62

  Spence, Gusty, 61, 63, 225

  see also Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF)

  Spring, Dick, 412, 434

  “stages theory,” 57–58

  Stalker, John, 512

  Starry Plough, 298

  State Department (U.S.), 24, 490–91

  Statham, Julie, 322

  statistics of violence:

  1971, 102–3

  1974, 141

  1976, 146

  1977, 149, 155

  1980s, 196

  1982, 223

  1986–92, 319

  1988–90, 338

  St. Andrew’s Agreement, 587–89

  “Steaknife,” 576

  Steele, Jimmy, 60, 70, 75, 104

  Steindoughtery, Margaret, 512

  “stepping stones,” 275–76, 281–82, 284, 297, 336, 400

  see also Reid-Adams initiative

  “Stickies” (“Sticks”), 99, 141, 294

  St. Matthews, 89–90, 92, 99, 147, 167

  Stobie, William, 577

  Storey, Bobby, 526, 546, 551, 580

  and Jean McConville, 125

  Stormont, 85, 139, 201, 215, 288, 295, 310

  IRA view of, 154

  new Assembly, 481–82, 484

  suspension of, 111–12

  Stormont spy-ring, see Provisional IRA: operations, Stormont spy-ring

  Stronge, James, 320–21

  Stronge, Sir Norman, 320–21

  Sullivan, Jim, 72–73

  Sunday Business Post (Dublin), 418, 565

  Sunday Times (London), 381, 517–18

  Sunday Tribune (Dublin), 279, 413, 482–83

  Sunday World (Dublin), 187, 583

  Sunningdale agreement, 138–39, 142, 273, 465, 528

  supergrasses, 243

  Tan War, 119, 306

  Tamil Tigers, 585

  Taplas, General Fernando, 511–12

  Tartan Gangs, 97

  Taylor, Harry, 109

  Taylor, Peter, 349

  Teahon, Paddy, 463

  Tebbit, Norman, 247

  Teebane bomb, see Provisional IRA: operations, Teebane bomb

  Ten Men Dead, 570

  ‘Tet offensive’ (Provisional IRA), 20–24, 26, 28, 32–33, 249–50, 281, 303, 305, 386, 403, 406, 489

  launched, 256, 329–34, 336–39

  political agenda, 327–28

  Vietcong and, 20

  Thames Television, 330

  Thatcher, Margaret, 16, 171, 176–77, 206, 215, 267, 274, 325, 336–37, 420

  and Adams contact, 247–49, 256

  and Anglo-Irish Agreement, 241, 273

 

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