[…] condemn without equivocation all acts of violence, but I am not prepared to be uneven-handed. I do not believe that we should condemn the violence of the IRA and produce a less strident condemnation of the violence of other extra-legal organisations. Nor do I believe that we should be any the less outraged when […]
[…] Mainstream Publishing, Edinburgh, 1999, £14.99 It is by now clear to everyone, except the hard-line Unionists hankering after the restoration of a Protestant Ascendancy, that the Provisional IRA was defeated in its war against the British. Their defeat was certainly not total, so that no return to ‘the good old days’ of Stormont was […]
[PDF file]: LSD- IRA? David Solomon, James Joseph McCann and Operation Julie David Black (This is based on a chapter from the author’s new book, LSD Underground: Operation Julie, the Microdot Gang and the Brotherhood of Eternal Love.) 1 – An Island Mystery In his book, Undercover: Operation Julie – The Inside Story,1 Stephen Bentley writes […]
[…] on Israel and her allies.” May 8th 1988, Sunday Express, Massie tells us that “Mrs Thatcher has given the security services two months to crack down on IRA killer squads on the Continent … Mrs Thatcher, through her Security Coordinator, Sir Colin Figures, has issued unprecedented instructions to MI5 and MI6 in the hunt […]
[…] partisanship, although such reliance and focus on governments and their actions produces its own bias, but that’s a different argument). McMahon is as scathing about the pointless IRA actions in the 1930s and 1940s as he is about the British government’s (and many of its intelligence operatives’) apparent inability to work outside a very […]
[…] 1969-73, from the Dublin arms trials to the failure of Sunningdale. It advanced the theory that a war of attrition between the British Army and the Provisional IRA became inevitable after the Dublin Government backed down from intervening in the North in 1970. Orders For The Captain is Kelly’s detailed account of his personal […]
[…] to visit a veteran Sinn Fein member in Castleblaney, Co. Monaghan, 8 miles south of Armagh. The English-born man they met had been closely associated with the IRA in Monaghan/Armagh for years, and also maintained contact with local INLA members like Grew and Carroll. But unknown to the two INLA men, the Castleblaney man […]
[…] media the large, nicely packaged, photogenic collection of guns and explosives found on board a Polish ship in Cleveland. And these were arms not bound for the IRA, but for the Protestant, Ulster Defence Association. And it had all apparently been nipped in the bud by co-operation between MI5, MI6 and the Polish intelligence […]
[…] of other ones….. Propaganda for the Ulster Cause overseas… Joint political initiatives: pro-Ulster demonstrations in European capitals, speaking tours by your spokesmen etc… Exchanging information on the IRA and its network abroad Financial assistance…. ‘ (p. 8). Brady’s explanation of the letter is that he was struck, as League International Liaison Officer and reader […]
[…] extended appendix is of little value. The book also contains some clumsy factual errors: for example, the bombing of McGurk’s Bar was not, as Geraghty claims, ‘an IRA own goal’; and the Civil Rights movement was certainly not ‘a classic of Republican political deception’. Nevertheless there is much of interest in the main body […]
