A Secret History of the IRA

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by Ed Moloney


  and Gibraltar, 330–31

  and hunger strikes, 209, 213–14, 228, 232, 239, 261, 568–69

  and Libya, 13–14

  resignation, 283

  security measures (1988), 338, 434

  Thiepval barracks, 576, see also Provisional IRA: operations, Thiepval barracks bomb

  think tank, see Adams, Gerry: and think tank

  Third Battalion (Provisional IRA), 87, 89, 97, 122, 133

  thirty-two-county democratic socialist republic, 183, 270

  Thomas, Quentin, 283, 285, 458

  Tidey, Don, kidnapping of, 242, 385

  Times (London), 491

  timing power unit (TPU), 5–6

  Timothy, Mick, 179

  Titanic, RMS, 43, 144

  Tohill, Bobby, 541

  Tolan, Tommy ‘Toddler,’ 105–6, 113, 168

  Tone, Theobold Wolfe, 57, 82–83, 146, 231, 308

  Toner, Father Tom, 226–27

  Toohey, John L., 548

  Towerstream, MV, 171

  Tracy, Sean, 78

  Travers, Mary, 243, 317

  Travers, Tom, 243, 317

  Treacy, Sean, 105

  Treanor, Pat, 446

  Treaty of 1921 (the Treaty), xviii–xix, 37, 40, 47, 113, 288, 394

  Trimble, David, xiii, xiv, xxi, 483, 486, 489, 497, 501–4 510, 518, 521, 523, 525, 527–30, 532, 534–35, 540–41

  Tripoli, 3–4, 6–7, 9, 11, 14, 19

  Troubles, the, xiii, xvii–xix, 6, 16, 152

  TUAS strategy, 435, 446, 452, 596–99

  and 1994–96 cease-fire, 423, 429, 432, 438, 441, 472

  Twomey, Seamus, 64, 98–99, 103, 106, 113, 122, 143, 157, 168–69, 172–73, 179, 185, 199, 386

  and abstention debate, 293, 295

  and Bloody Friday, 117–18

  as chief of staff, 164, 613

  and formation of Provisionals, 60, 70

  Mountjoy escape, 163, 172

  Tynan Abbey, 320

  Tyrie, Andy, 11

  Tyrone:

  history of resistance, 308–12

  Loughgall ambush, 304–8, 313–19, 324

  see also East Tyrone Brigade (Provisional IRA)

  Ulster Custom, 82

  Ulster Defence Association (UDA), xviii, 10–11, 223, 290, 320, 414–15, 559, 577–78

  Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR), 85, 184, 387

  IRA attacks on, 219, 312, 314, 318–19, 336, 338, 340–41, 344

  Ulster Unionist Council, 523

  Ulster Unionist Party, 61, 98, 281, 500, 528, 541, 590

  see also Chichester-Clark, Major James; Craig, James; Craig, William; Faulkner, Brian; O’Neill, Terence; Trimble, David

  Ulster Volunteer Force (1912), 42

  Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF), xviii, 61, 146, 323, 335

  1966 killings, 61–63, 225

  Tyrone killings (1988–91), 307, 314, 319–24

  see also Shankill Butchers

  Ulster Workers’ Councill, 528

  Ulsterization, 145

  unionism, see Northern Ireland state

  unionist consent (attitudes to), 267, 272–73, 275, 285–86, 395, 399, 410, 465, 484

  in Downing Street Declaration, 412–13

  IRA view, 394, 407–9, 413

  United Irishman, 77

  United Irishmen, 81–83

  United Nations, 531

  “unknowns, the,” 122, 124

  Vanguard Party, 528

  Vatican, 232, 237

  Vietnam, 586

  Villa, 19, 20, 25, 327, 489

  Vincent, Daniel, 319

  Volklscher Beobachter, 584

  Walker, James Edward, 512

  Walsh, Representative Jim, 554–55

  Walsh, Seanna, 558

  Ward, Chris, 537–38, 546

  Ward, Peter, 62

  Warren, Will, 364

  Washington Post, 491

  weaponry, see Provisional IRA: weaponry

  West Belfast Festival, 549

  West, Harry, 212

  Westminster, 288, 295

  Whitaker, T. K., 264

  Whitehall, 258

  White House, the, 402, 491, 553

  Whitelaw, William, 112–13, 116, 128–29

  Widgery, Lord, 548

  Williams, Betty, 363

  Williams, Tom, 41, 230, 382

  Wilsey, Lieutenant General Sir John, 366

  Wilson, Gordon, 341

  Wilson, Harold, 54, 64, 85, 89

  Wilson, Marie, 341

  Wilson, Padraig, 483, 487, 512–13

  Wolfe Tone clubs, 56, 68

  Women’s Coalition, 521

  Workers Party, 436

  World Trade Center, 347, 490–91

  Wright, Billy, 323

  Wright, Seamus, see informers/security breaches (Provisional IRA): Wright, Seamus

  “Young Hooligans,” 356

  Young Turks, 139–41

  About the Author

  Ed Moloney has been a reporter covering the Northern Ireland situation since 1978 and has been Northern Editor of the Irish Times (1981–5) and Northern Editor of the Sunday Tribune in Dublin (1987–2001). He co-authored a celebrated biography of the Reverend Ian Paisley in 1986 and has contributed to several other books, including a study of media coverage of the Northern Ireland violence. He has written for a wide range of newspapers and magazines in the United States and Britain, including the Washington Post, the NY Daily News, the New York Post, The Economist, the Independent, the Guardian, the New Statesman, New Society, and a variety of Irish publications. He has been a frequent commentator on BBC, CNN and commercial radio and television in Britain and Ireland, and has helped to produce a number of documentaries on the Irish Troubles. In 1999 he successfully defeated an attempt by London’s Scotland Yard Commissioner, Sir John Stevens, to force him to hand over notes of an interview with a loyalist paramilitary who alleged a police cover-up of the notorious murder of the Belfast attorney, Pat Finucane. In that year he was elected Irish Journalist of the Year. He is fifty-six, married with one son, and is currently living and working as a freelance journalist in New York.

  * After the 1969 split the Officials designed a new Easter lily emblem, which republicans traditionally sport on their lapels to commemorate the 1916 Rising. Instead of using the customary pin to affix the paper emblem, the Officials backed theirs with adhesive, thus earning themselves the sobriquet “Sticky backs” or “Sticks.” A locally recruited regiment of the British army, the Royal Ulster Rifles, were also known by this nickname; in the world of republicanism the term thus acquired a subtle double meaning.

  * Fatality figures up to this date are taken from David McKittrick et al., Lost Lives (Edinburgh, Mainstream Publishing, 1999).

  * Fatality figures from 2000 to 2006 are taken or extrapolated from CAIN web service,

 

 

 


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