The IRA 1926-1936.
Author: HANLEY, Brian.
Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2002. 286 pages. Illustrated. Hardback.
This is the first book to examine the IRA in depth for the years prior to the Second World War - its membership, day-to-day activities, training methods and internal regime. Drawing on new sources, particularly the papers of Moss Twomey (IRA chief of staff, 1926-36), Brian Hanley argues that in terms of politics and activity the organization differed significantly from what it was during the Civil War and from what it later became. He examines the IRA’s ideology and the factors that influenced it, and concludes that the IRA’s turn to social radicalism in the 1930s both attracted new members and provoked severe internal divisions. The narrative is peopled with the allies, rivals and enemies of the organization - Fianna Fail, the Catholic Church, Cumann na mBan, the Blueshirts, the gardai, the Orange Order, and the communist movement.
ISBN: 1851827218
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