Tag: Irish Republican Army
Insurgency Lessons Learned from the “Big Fella”
H/T WRSA
Guerilla Warfare History: The IRA and ‘Fantasy Troubles’
A lot of articles, books, documentaries and news pieces have been produced over the last two decades exploring theĀ originsĀ of the Peace Process in the North of Ireland, and none more so than in the murky world of Britainās Dirty War. It has become de rigueur in certain British nationalist circles (and amongst their sympathisers) to…
History of Terrorism: The Bloody History of the Red Right Hand
This is but one of many thousands of chapters of violence in the History of the Fighting between the IRA and the Ulster Volunteer Force (UFV), also called the Red Right Hand. -SF There was collusion between some police officers and loyalist gunmen who killed six Catholics 22 years ago, a report by NI’s Police…
The History of Terrorism: a Film Anthology
In creating a Memorial Day Movie list it got me to thinking about other movie list, so I thought I would start with a favorite subject of mine: The Study Of Terrorism and Guerilla Warfare. Here are some films worth watching if you are interested in learning more about this subject. Most of these films…
Guerilla Warfare History: Pictorial History of the IRA and “The Troubles”
From 1968 to 1998, Northern Ireland was the battleground of a guerrilla war known as The Troubles. On one side was the Protestant majority called the Unionists, who wanted Northern Ireland to remain part of the United Kingdom. On the other side were the Nationalists, a Catholic minority who sought to become part of the…