Synopses & Reviews
Filled with disclosures and based on the author's unprecedented access to the Irish Republican Army, this explosive book sparked controversy when it was first published in hardcover. Delving deeply into the inner workings, furtive plots, and deadly rivalries of the Irish Republican Army, Ed Moloney, who has covered the IRA since the late 1970s, delivers a riveting account of how one of the world's oldest and most ruthless terrorist groups was maneuvered into ending its thirty-year war with Britain. With revelations including the IRA's long and astonishing associations with Qaddafi's regime, Margaret Thatcher's secret diplomacy with Gerry Adams, the Catholic Church's clandestine negotiations with Republican leadership, and hitherto undisclosed activities of the American government under Bill Clinton, rewrites, with dramatic results, the story of this intractable conflict. In particular, fascinating material on Adams's Machiavellian rise to power establishes the IRA leader as one of the most complex political figures of our time. Like Thomas Friedman in , Moloney brings a sharply intelligent reporter's eye to a tangled history often baffling to outsiders. #1 international bestseller; A 2002 Rave.
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"This is the best book yet written about the Provisional Irish Republican Army." Eamonn McCann
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An important new book.
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"Moloney throws much new light...on a far from finished conflict...an important contribution to our understanding." New York Post
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Exhaustive and highly provocative.
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"Hard to put down." Publishers Weekly
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A remarkable story of cunning and guile...deserves landmark status in the field. --Fred Barbash
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A penetrating examination of violent Irish nationalism...remarkably comprehensive yet coolly incisive...an extraordinarily courageous and ultimately optimistic book that brilliantly elucidates past horrors. --Anna Mundow
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"An important new book." The Nation
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"Exhaustive and highly provocative." Murray Sayle New York Times
Synopsis
FILLED WITH DISCLOSURES and based on the author's unprecedented access to the Irish Republican Army, this explosive book sparked controversy when it was first published in hardcover. Illuminating the previously unknown role played by Gerry Adams and forever altering our understanding of the Irish peace process, A Secret History of the IRA is a classic work of investigative journalism that will be debated for years to come.
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An epic portrayal of one of the twentieth century's longest wars--based on unprecedented access to all the players.
About the Author
Ed Moloney has been Northern editor of the Irish Times and the Sunday Tribune. He has written for the Washington Post, The Economist, and The Guardian, and in 1999 he was elected Irish Journalist of the Year. He lives in New York.