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| Author | Ed Moloney |
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| Language | English |
| Publisher | Penguin Books |
Publication date | 30 September 2002 |
| ISBN | 978-0393051940 |
A Secret History of the IRA is a book by journalistEd Moloney, first published byPenguin Books in 2002.
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Reviewers responded favorably. InThe Blanket, an online journal, reviewer Liam O Ruairc described the book as potentially "the standard if not the definitive work on the history of theProvisional IRA".[1]Eamonn McCann, inThe Nation, commented that it was "the best book yet" written on the Provisional IRA as it traced the rise of the Provos from the burning out of Catholic neighborhoods in Belfast in August 1969 to "the enclosure of the movement's leadership within conventional bourgeois politics through the Good Friday Agreement of 1998" (Belfast Agreement).[2]
A central theme in the book is the role thatSinn Féin PresidentGerry Adams has played in theIrish republican movement. In his review, O Ruairc noted that the book could have been "better titledA Secret History of Gerry Adams".[1] InThe Sunday Business Post Online, reviewerTom McGurk, in reference to the strategy articulated byDanny Morrison at the 1981Sinn FéinArd-Fheis, wrote that the book "grippingly" detailed Adams's struggle to move from the Armalite to the ballot box "without a split and without bodies in ditches".[3]
The book was met with controversy because of some of the revelations it contains. Those revelations reveal both a strength and weakness, in that some of Moloney's sources were willing to speak in great detail but with the caveat that they remain confidential.[4]
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