The IRA in Britain, 19191923: 'In the Heart of Enemy Lines' by Gerard Noonan (En

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The IRA in Britain, 19191923

by Gerard Noonan

A study of the activities of violent republicans in Britain during the Irish War of Independence and Civil War, 1919–1923, including gunrunning and their campaign of violence, as well as the reaction of the authorities.

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Between 1919 and 1923, Ireland was engulfed by violence as the Irish Republican Army (IRA) fought a guerrilla campaign against the British state and later fellow Irishmen and women in pursuit of an Irish Republic. Police barracks and government offices were attacked and burned, soldiers and policemen were killed and the economic and social life of the country was dislocated.Britain itself was a theatre in the war too. 'In the heart of enemy lines', as one IRA leader put it, cities such as London, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Glasgow and their environs saw the establishment of IRA companies, Irish Republican Brotherhood circles, Cumann na mBan branches and Na Fianna Éireann troops. Composed of Irish emigrants and the descendants of emigrants, these organizations worked to help their comrades across the Irish Sea. Their most important activity was gunrunning, acquiring and smuggling weapons to Ireland. In November 1920, setting fire to warehouses and timber yards in Liverpool, they launched a campaign of violence. Meanwhile, mass-membership organizations such as the Irish Self-Determination League of Great Britain and Sinn Féin sought to persuade the British public of Ireland's right to independence. Republican leaders such as Michael Collins, Rory O'Connor and Liam Mellows took a keen interest in these exploits.Making extensive use of archival sources and memoirs, The IRA in Britain is the first book to study this little known aspect of the Irish Revolutionary period. Tracing the history of the Irish Volunteers in Britain from their establishment in 1914 and participation in the Easter Rising two years later, through the weapons' smuggling activities and violent operations of the War of Independence to the bitter divisions of the Civil War and the response of the authorities, The IRA in Britain highlights the important role played by those outside of Ireland in the Revolution.

Author Biography

Gerard Noonan has a PhD from Trinity College Dublin.

Table of Contents

  • List of Illustrations
  • List of Tables
  • List of Graphs
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Prologue
  • 1. 'On a Solid Footing': Organizing Republicanism in Britain, January 1919–July 1921
  • 2. Supplying an Army: Gunrunning in Britain, January 1919–July 1921
  • 3. 'We are doing what you are doing in Ireland': IRA Operations in Britain, January 1919–July 1921
  • 4. Truce, Treaty and Dissension, July 1921–June 1922
  • 5. The Civil War, June 1922–May 1923
  • 6. Combating the 'Sinn Fein Movement' in Britain: The Response of the Authorities, 1919–1923
  • Epilogue and Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index

Review

An intrinsically valuable work - intellectually serious, well-researched and original. Gerard Noonan's book is an outstanding, definitive analysis of an under-researched topic - the role of the IRA in Britain during the crucial periods of the partition of Ireland, War of Independence and republican split. Drawing upon exhaustive, highly original research, Noonan charts a very wide range of IRA activity in England, Scotland and Wales in support of the battles 'across the water'. The book is essential reading for any scholar of the period. Gerard Noonan's new book is a welcome addition to the growing historiography of modern Ireland, which places the Irish diaspora at the centre of analysis...This book deserves commendation for its depth of research and for its novel approach to integrating Irish and British history in a critical period. The IRA in Britain is detailed, comprehensive and well structured. Noonan has drawn effectively on recently available digital archives, which permit the marshalling of 'new' or at least hitherto inaccessible information. This is an important contribution to the historiography of the War of Independence and the Civil War. The author identified the gap in that historiography and has filled it with an original, meticulously researched and well-presented volume... it is essential reading. (The IRA in Britain) makes important contributions to political and social history... it brings to light hitherto neglected perspectives on the ordinary activists, paramilitaries and prisoners - and their families and communities - who experienced and contributed to a decade of monumental change.

Review Text

The history of the Irish Revolution is a lively field; some important questions relating to the role played by violence in the overthrow of the British state in Ireland, c.1912-23, have nonetheless remained under investigated. Gerard Noonan addresses a key lacuna in the historiography, presenting a well-researched study of the activities of Irish Republican Army (IRA) or ''Volunteer'' units in Great Britain. ''Irish nationalism'', Noonan rightly points out in the Introduction, historically was not ''limited to the inhabitants of Ireland itself'' (p. 3), but rather was (and indeed still is) transmitted throughout the world via the Irish diaspora. Migrants in Britain, the USA and Australia, for example, have long offered financial, political and other forms of support to the cause of Irish freedom. Niall Whelehan''s transnational study of The Dynamiters (Cambridge University Press, 2012), and research by Matthew Kelly and others on the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB, the Fenian movement), explore these powerful nineteenth-century networks. However, excepting Mo Moulton''s important new monograph, Ireland and the Irish in Interwar England (Cambridge University Press, 2014), comparatively little has been written on the impact of the later (1916-23) independence struggle, on Britain''s sizeable Irish population. (Including the community''s second-and third-generations, which as Noonan reports, numbered more than two million Irish Catholica at the height of IRA activity, in autumn 1921.)A chapter in Peter Hart''s The IRA at War (Oxford University Press, 2003) considers ''The IRA in Britain'', but histories of revolutionary violence have usually focused on armed encounters-in Ireland-between Irish republicans and British forces. Noonan, by contrast, meticulously quantifies-as far as is possible, given ''the absence of a complete set of primary source records'' (p. 113)-IRA membership, armament levels and ''operations'' (p. 166, n.141), in England, Scotland and Wales, from the outbreak of the War of Independence (January 1919) through the period following the Truce (11 July 1921) to the ratification of the Anglo-Irish Treaty (January 1922) and Civil War (June 1922 to May 1923).Gunrunning (the subject of Chapter 2) was the most obvious method by which IRA personnel in Britain-numbering ''between 2,282 and 2,582'' (p. 52) at the organization''s peak-served as auxiliaries to their under resourced comrades in Ireland. Tens of rifles and machine guns, hundreds of handguns, tens of thousands of rounds of ammunition, and hundreds of kilograms of explosives, were acquired and smuggled out of London, Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Glasgow, to Dublin, throughout the Revolution. Yet Noonan also uses Volunteers'' remembrances (as recorded in the recently digitized Bureau of Military History (BMH) Witness Statements), and other primary sources, to explain the wider social and political contexts within which operated the supply of arms.Recruitment to the IRA, from 1919, occurred within an established framework of republicanism in Britain: Chapter 1 examines the organizational roles of IRB circles, for example, and branches of Cumman na mBan (the League of Women) and Na Fianna

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This is an important contribution to the historiography of the War of Independence and the Civil War. The author identified the gap in that historiography and has filled it with an original, meticulously researched and well-presented volume... it is essential reading. Patrick McCarthy, The Irish Sword

Feature

Cover image is a photograph of Reginald Dunne being escorted to court in June 1922. He was the second in command of the London branch of the IRA branch of the IRA who was hanged after killing Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson.

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List of Illustrations List of Tables List of Graphs List of Abbreviations Acknowledgements Introduction Prologue 1. 'On a Solid Footing': Organizing Republicanism in Britain, January 1919-July 1921 2. Supplying an Army: Gunrunning in Britain, January 1919-July 1921 3. 'We are doing what you are doing in Ireland': IRA Operations in Britain, January 1919-July 1921 4. Truce, Treaty and Dissension, July 1921-June 1922 5. The Civil War, June 1922-May 1923 6. Combating the 'Sinn Fein Movement' in Britain: The Response of the Authorities, 1919-1923 Epilogue and Conclusion Bibliography Index

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The first book on the activities of republicans in Britain during the Irish War of Independence and Civil WarFocuses on the deeds of the IRA, IRB, Cumann na mBan and Na Fianna

Details ISBN1781380260 Author Gerard Noonan Publisher Liverpool University Press Year 2014 ISBN-10 1781380260 ISBN-13 9781781380260 Format Hardcover Pages 385 Media Book Short Title IRA IN BRITAIN 1919 1923 Language English Illustrations Yes Publication Date 2014-04-02 UK Release Date 2014-04-02 Imprint Liverpool University Press Place of Publication Liverpool Country of Publication United Kingdom AU Release Date 2014-04-02 NZ Release Date 2014-04-02 Subtitle 'In the Heart of Enemy Lines' Alternative 9781781385890 DEWEY 941.70821 Audience Professional & Vocational

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