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Mulqueen, John

 
9781789620641: 'An Alien Ideology': Cold War Perceptions of the Irish Republican Left
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ISBN 10: 1789620643 ISBN 13: 9781789620641
Editorial: Liverpool University Press, 2019

Sinopsis

An ‘Irish Cuba’ – on Britain’s doorstep?

This book studies perceptions of the Soviet Union's influence over Irish revolutionaries during the Cold War. The Dublin authorities did not allow the Irish state’s non-aligned status to prevent them joining the West’s struggle against communism. Leading officials, such as Colonel Dan Bryan in G2, the Irish army intelligence directorate, argued that Ireland should assist the NATO powers. British and Irish officials believed communists in Ireland were directed by the British communist party, the CPGB.

If Moscow's express adherents were too isolated to pose a threat in either Irish jurisdiction, the republican movement was a different matter. The authorities, north and south, saw that a communist-influenced IRA had potential appeal. This Cold War nightmare arrived with the outbreak of the Northern Ireland Troubles. Whitehall feared Dublin could become a Russian espionage hub, with the Marxist-led Official IRA acting as a Soviet proxy. To what extent did the Official republican movement's Workers’ Party serve the Soviets’ Cold War agenda?

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John Mulqueen holds a PhD from Trinity College Dublin and is the author of ‘Remembering and Forgetting: The Official Republican Movement, 1970–1982’, in Jim Smyth (ed.), Remembering the Troubles: Contesting the Recent Past in Northern Ireland (2017). He is a regular contributor to the Dublin Review of Books and has written for Intelligence and National Security and History Ireland.

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Editorial
Liverpool University Press
Año de publicación
2019
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1789620643
ISBN 13 
9781789620641
Encuadernación
Tapa dura
Número de páginas
296
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