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Author : J. B. E. Hittle
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781612341286
How the British Secret Service failed to neutralize Sinn Fein and the IRA
Author : J. B. E. Hittle
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781597975353
As leader of the Irish Republican Brotherhood and then the Irish Republican Army (IRA), Michael Collins developed a bold, new strategy to use against the British administration of Ireland in the early twentieth century. His goal was to attack its well-established system of spies and informers, wear down British forces with a sustained guerrilla campaign, and force a political settlement that would lead to a free Irish Republic. Michael Collins and the Anglo-Irish War reveals that the success of the Irish insurgency was not just a measure of Collins’s revolutionary genius, as has often been claimed. British miscalculations, overconfidence, and a failure to mount a sustained professional intelligence effort to neutralize the IRA contributed to Britain’s defeat. Although Britain possessed the world’s most professional secret service, the British intelligence community underwent a politically driven and ill-advised reorganization in early 1919, at the very moment that Collins and the IRA were going on the offensive. Once Collins neutralized the local colonial spy service, the British had no choice but to import professional secret service agents. But Britain’s wholesale reorganization of its domestic counterintelligence capability sidelined its most effective countersubversive agency, MI5, leaving the job of intelligence management in Ireland to Special Branch civilians and a contingent of quickly trained army case officers, neither group being equipped—or inclined—to mount a coordinated intelligence effort against the insurgents. Britain’s appointment of a national intelligence director for home affairs in 1919—just as the Irish revolutionary parliament published its Declaration of Independence—was the decisive factor leading to Britain’s disarray against the IRA. By the time the War Office reorganized its intelligence effort against Collins in mid-1920, it was too late to reverse the ascendancy of the IRA. Michael Collins and the Anglo-Irish War takes a fresh approach to the subject, presenting it as a case study in intelligence management under conditions of a broader counterinsurgency campaign. The lessons learned from this disastrous episode have stark relevance for contemporary national security managers and warfighters currently engaged in the war on terrorism.
Author : J. B. E. Hittle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Counterinsurgency
ISBN : OCLC:1310742738
Author : Michael Hopkinson
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2002-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773570764
The war was prosecuted ruthlessly by the Irish Republican Army which, paralleling the political efforts of Sinn Féin, hoped to break Britain's will to rule Ireland and create an independent Irish republic. The British retaliated by introducing two new irregular forces into Ireland, the Black and Tans and the Auxiliaries. Fighting took place principally in counties Cork, Limerick, Tipperary, Monaghan, Armagh, Clare, Kerry, and Longford. It was sporadic but vicious, with fewer than 2,000 IRA volunteers facing over 50,000 crown forces. The IRA depended upon energetic local leaders -- where there were none, there was little fighting.
Author : Michael T Foy
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2008-08-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780752495903
Michael Collins is often thought of as Ireland's lost leader: a man born into a revolutionary environment who became a skilled statesman and military leader. This book looks in at Collins' key role in the Anglo Irish War using primary sources which have not previously been available.
Author : Tim Pat Coogan
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2002-05-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0312295111
When the Irish nationalist Michael Collins signed the Anglo-Irish Treaty in December 1921, he observed to Lord Birkenhead that he may have signed his own death warrant. In August 1922 that prophecy came true when Collins was ambushed, shot and killed by a compatriot, but his vision and legacy lived on. Tim Pat Coogan's biography presents the life of a man whose idealistic vigor and determination were matched by his political realism and organizational abilities. This is the classic biography of the man who created modern Ireland.
Author : Gabriel Doherty,Dermot Keogh
Publisher : Mercier Press Ltd
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781856355124
An evaluation of the contribution made by Michael Collins to the making of the Irish state. A series of specially commissioned essays, written by some of Ireland's leading historians (academic and popular), on the contribution made by Michael Collins to the making of the Irish state. This is a professional evaluation of Michael Collins which brings to light his multi-faceted and complex character. The contributors examine Collins as Minister for Finance, his role in intelligence, his policy towards the north, his career as Commander-in-Chief, the origins of the Civil War, his relationship w.
Author : Michael Collins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Ireland
ISBN : UCSC:32106019548079
Collins became the first commander-in-chief of the Irish Army while still in his twenties. This book--published to coincide with the release of the film The Big Fellow, based on Collins' life, starring Liam Neeson and Julia Roberts--contains 30 of Collins' articles and speeches in which he evaluates Ireland's heritage and charts its future.
Author : Lorcan Collins
Publisher : The O'Brien Press Ltd
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781788491464
An accessible overview of Ireland's War of Independence, 1919-21. From the first shooting of RIC constables in Soloheadbeg, Co Tipperary, on 21 January 1919 to the truce in July 1921, the IRA carried out a huge range of attacks on all levels of British rule in Ireland. There are stories of humanity, such as the British soldiers who helped three IRA men escape from prison or the members of the British Army who mutinied in India after hearing about the reprisals being carried out by the Black and Tans in Ireland. The hundreds of thousands of people who celebrated the Centenary of the 1916 Rising with pride and joy are the same people who will appreciate the story of the Irish Republicans who battled against all odds in the next phase of the fight for Ireland between 1919 and 1921.
Author : Francis J. Costello
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015055918604
The Irish Revolution at the beginning of the twentieth century spawned the creation of the modern Irish state. This is the first full length analysis to offer a comprehensive framework of that revolution in its totality, taking into account the broad range of social, economic and political developments as well as the IRA's campaign of guerrilla warfare and the British response to it. Drawing on such previously unpublished sources as the Irish Department of Defense's Military History Bureau, the author paints a broad picture of the people and the key events in the Irish struggle for independence. The book also breaks new ground in presenting much of the behind the scenes debate within the British Government in the prosecution of its policies in response to the revolt in Ireland. British official frustration provoked by the acceptance of D���¡il Eireann by the majority of the Irish people and the independent institutions it sought to set in place is also explicitly chronicled. New light is shed on the Anglo-Irish Treaty negotiations as well as on the divisions within Irish nationalism before and indeed afterwards which culminated in the Irish Civil War. The role of external forces including public opinion in the United States and British competing obligations at home and abroad are also covered. Considerable attention is given to the development of democratic government in the fledgling Irish Free State in the midst of domestic upheaval, and to the broader effort at nation building which followed after the Civil War.
Author : Ryle T Dwyer
Publisher : Mercier Press Ltd
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781781170304
In this completely revised and updated book, T. Ryle Dwyer, offers a fresh perspective on Collins' activities. With new information about his role in organising the IRB in London in his youth right through to his death in 1922, Dwyer's analysis supports the case for Collins as the chief architect of the Irish victory over the British Empire. Michael Collins co-ordinated the sweeping Sinn Féin election victory of 1918 and put structure on the organisation of the IRA. He was the prototype of the urban terrorist and the architect of the war against the Black and Tans. While many have questioned whether Collins ever fired a shot at an enemy of Ireland, he did order the deaths of people standing in his way, and he even advocated kidnapping a US President.
Author : T. Ryle Dwyer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Ireland
ISBN : 1781170320
On 14 April 1922 a group of 200 anti-Treaty IRA men occupied the Four Courts in Dublin in defiance of the Provisional Government. Michael Collins, who wanted to avoid civil war at all costs, did not attack them until June 1922, when British pressure forced his hand. This led to the Irish Civil War as fighting broke out in Dublin between the anti-Treaty IRA and the Provisional Government's troops. Under Collins' supervision, the Free State rapidly took control of the capital. In 'Michael Collins and the Civil War', Ryle Dwyer sheds new light on Collins' role in the Civil War, showing how in the weeks and months leading to the campaign he secretly persisted with guerrilla tactics in border areas. This involved not only assassination but also kidnapping and hostage taking. In confronting those tactics on behalf of the British, for instance, Winston Churchill engaged in similar behaviour, including killing and hostage-taking. But until now much of this has conveniently been swept under the carpet of history.
Author : Edward Purdon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105029066763
In 1921 Arthur Griffith and Michael Collins signed the document giving 26 counties of Ireland dominion status and a degree of political autonomy. Eight months later both were dead. This book tells the story of the brothers' conflict.
Author : William Sheehan
Publisher : Gill & Macmillan Ltd
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2007-03-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781848899117
?Ireland's War of Independence generated a wealth of published material but very little from a British perspective. Yet many British servicemen left accounts of their time in Ireland from 1918 to 1921. They describe military operations, the IRA, the Irish, the actions of their own forces, morale and relationships with local communities. There is Brigadier Vinden's strange tale of a drinking session with Michael Collins and humour in the sending of Gaelic-speaking Highlanders into a public house to eavesdrop in the belief that Sinn Féiners always spoke Irish to each other. The author has gone deep into British military archives to unearth these never-published accounts. Supplemented with unpublished photographs from the Imperial War Museum and the Irish National Library, these accounts form a landmark oral history told through the personal experiences of men from across the ranks.
Author : Frank O’Connor
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789123586
Death in Dublin: Michael Collins and the Irish Revolution is a fascinating biography of Irish revolutionary, soldier and politician who was a leading figure in the early twentieth century Irish struggle for independence, Michael Collins (1890-1922). Written by famed Irish novelist and short-story writer Frank O’Connor, and first published in 1937, the book covers the period of Collins’s life from the Easter Rising in 1916 to his death during the Irish Civil War in 1922. Unlike most conventional biographies of famous leaders, the author, who himself served with the Anti-Treaty faction during the Irish Civil War, establishes a clear goal in portraying Collins’s character and human qualities above his major achievements. Through his friendship with Richard Hayes, Frank O’Connor was able to meet and interview many people who had known Collins, in particular Collins’ secretary, Joe O’Reilly, who provided invaluable information. In a novel-length biography, stripped of boring detail, Frank O’Connor brings alive the legendary figure of Michael Collins. He uses the factual material from the official biographies to paint in a background that is strictly accurate and historically correct. Against this background strides the recognisably human, extremely vital and challenging figure of him who was to be prophetically nicknamed “The Big Fellow.” This portrait, vigorously limned by the word-painting of which Frank O’Connor is such an acknowledged master, will live long in the reader’s memory. Having read it, you will say “Now, I know Collins.”