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Soldiering against subversion : the Irish defence forces and internal security during the Troubles 1969-1998

Title: Soldiering against subversion : the Irish defence forces and internal security during the Troubles 1969-1998 / Dan Harvey.
Author: Harvey, Dan, 1959-
Publication: Newbridge : Merrion Press, 2018.

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Description

xxii, 236 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white); 23 cm

Summary

"During a time of high tension, terror and fear, the Irish Defence Forces faced the very real threat of the Irish State being plunged into a savagely sectarian civil war. The southern state faced a breakdown of law and order, severely challenged by manhunts, prison breaks, shoot-outs, kidnappings, bank robberies, subversive training camps, bomb-making factories, illegal weapons shipments, and border operations. Soldiering Against Subversion is the dramatic and previously untold story of the Irish Defence Forces' critical role in defending the southern state against paramilitary forces during the worse years of the modern Troubles. Retired Lieutenant Colonel, Dan Harvey, describes the major operations via in-depth interviews with Irish Defence veterans, revealing how these brave men and women protected the state on home soil. From the kidnapping of Shergar and Quinsworth CEO Don Tidey, the manhunt and capture of INLA leader Dessie 'the Border Fox' O'Hare, the pandemonium as the Irish army quells a violent prison riot in Mountjoy in 1972, to the Irish navy's efforts to thwart gun-running off the coast of Kerry, these first-hand accounts reveal the true story of the fight for the nation's democracy."-- back cover.

Subject

Genre/Form

History.
Military history.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN

9781785371851
1785371851
9781785371875 (canceled/invalid)
9781785371868 (canceled/invalid)
9781785371882 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2018410814

OCLC

on1064658198
1064658198
SCSB-9292044

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library