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Before the dawn : an autobiography
\"In this fascinating memoir of his early life, Gerry Adams, the president of Sinn Fâein, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army, describes the development of the modern \"Troubles'' in Northern Ireland and his own central role in them, culminating in the tragic hunger strike by imprisoned IRA members in 1981. Born in 1948, Adams vividly recalls growing up in the working-class Ballymurphy district of West Belfast, where he became involved in the civil rights campaign in the late 1960s and was active in campaigns around issues of housing, unemployment, and civil rights. The unionist forces reacted violently to the protests, and the situation exploded into civil war. Adams recounts his growing radicalization, his leadership role in the political wing of the IRA, and the British use of secret courts to condemn republicans. Adams was a political prisoner, one of the first in the notorious Northern Irish jail Long Kesh, and underwent torture at the hands of the British authorities, which he describes in detail. Adams chronicles the dramatic hunger strikes of Bobby Sands, Francis Hughes, Raymond McCreesh, and others in 1980-81, which he initially resisted but which he now recognizes as having revitalized the nationalist movement. Before the Dawn is an engaging and revealing self-portrait that is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand modern Ireland. First published in 1996--at a time when politics in Northern Ireland was at an impasse, and the Good Friday Agreement was still many tense months away--this new edition contains a brand new introduction and epilogue written by the author, covering Adams's family, Brexit, and the peace process.\"--Provided by publisher.
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The terrorist's dilemma
How do terrorist groups control their members? Do the tools groups use to monitor their operatives and enforce discipline create security vulnerabilities that governments can exploit?The Terrorist's Dilemmais the first book to systematically examine the great variation in how terrorist groups are structured. Employing a broad range of agency theory, historical case studies, and terrorists' own internal documents, Jacob Shapiro provocatively discusses the core managerial challenges that terrorists face and illustrates how their political goals interact with the operational environment to push them to organize in particular ways.
Shapiro provides a historically informed explanation for why some groups have little hierarchy, while others resemble miniature firms, complete with line charts and written disciplinary codes. Looking at groups in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America, he highlights how consistent and widespread the terrorist's dilemma--balancing the desire to maintain control with the need for secrecy--has been since the 1880s. Through an analysis of more than a hundred terrorist autobiographies he shows how prevalent bureaucracy has been, and he utilizes a cache of internal documents from al-Qa'ida in Iraq to outline why this deadly group used so much paperwork to handle its people. Tracing the strategic interaction between terrorist leaders and their operatives, Shapiro closes with a series of comparative case studies, indicating that the differences in how groups in the same conflict approach their dilemmas are consistent with an agency theory perspective.
The Terrorist's Dilemmademonstrates the management constraints inherent to terrorist groups and sheds light on specific organizational details that can be exploited to more efficiently combat terrorist activity.
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When did the Irish-American Diaspora Make a Difference? Influencing US Diplomacy toward Northern Ireland
This article explains the changing relationship between Irish leaders, the Irish-American diaspora, Irish-American political elites, and American diplomacy. Specifically, we explore the transnational advocacy networks (TANSs) associated with the Irish diaspora and their impact on American diplomacy. In the early twentieth century, de Valera failed to mobilize Irish-America to convince President Wilson to recognize the Irish Republic. By the late twentieth century Irish-Americans became effective foreign policy entrepreneurs in Congress re-orienting US diplomacy toward Northern Ireland. Irish political elites utilized both the diaspora and their elite connections to transform the American policy of deference to its Cold War ally to an engaged diplomacy mediating and promoting peace.
Journal Article
Gerry Adams and the Northern Ireland Peace Process: A Research Note
This research note uses Hermann's personality-at-a-distance (PAD) method and applies it to negotiating behavior. Gerry Adams's personality and its effect upon his negotiating behavior in the current peace process in Northern Ireland is used as an illustration of the expanded application of PAD in a negotiating context.
Journal Article
Irlanda y el posconflicto
Tras tres lustros de los acuerdos de paz, líderes irlandeses fueron recibidos por la Reina, al tiempo que Gerry Adams, dirigente del Sin Fein, era acusado de ordenar, en 1972, la muerte y desaparición de Jean McConville -madre de 10 hijos-, considerada por los rebeldes irlandeses espía de Inglaterra. En una grabación conocida recientemente, Brendom Hughes, excombatiente del IRA, declara que Adams ordenó el asesinato, y Michael, hijo de la mujer asesinada, quien tenía 11 años cuando ocurrieron los hechos, declaró que tras la desaparición de su madre hombres armados lo golpearon y amenazaron. Adams, quien niega su responsabilidad directa, reconoció que la muerte y ocultamiento del cadáver de la víctima fue un grave error, se presentó a la justicia y fue liberado sin cargos tras cuatro días de detención. Irlanda fue poblada por Celtas y evangelizada por San Patricio, pero la llegada en 1169 de Ricardo De Clare y normandos procedentes de Gales e Inglaterra originó un proceso de dominación de ocho siglos, y los irlandeses que hablaban su propia lengua (gaélica) sufrieron la imposición del inglés.
Trade Publication Article
Reality and Justice: Seamus Heaney’s The Cure at Troy
In his Field Day play The Cure at Troy (1990), Seamus Heaney was responding more directly than has been hitherto recognized to the contemporary political situation in Northern Ireland. This essay examines Heaney's drama in the context of the first tentative steps in what would come to be called the peace process: SDLP leader John Hume's early discussions with Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams. Through his imaginative use of the Chorus, Heaney sought to encourage the play's original audiences to focus on the future rather than the past, and to believe that something better was possible. Key Words. Seamus Heaney, The Cure at Troy, Peace Process, Northern Ireland, John Hume, Gerry Adams, Field Day Theatre Company. En la obra The Cure at Troy (1990), escrita para la compañía Field Day, Seamus Heaney estaba respondiendo a los acontecimientos de ese momento en Irlanda del Norte de una forma más inmediata de lo que hasta ahora se ha interpretado. En este artículo se examina dicha obra de Heaney con el trasfondo de los primeros y vacilantes pasos de lo que llegaría a ser el proceso de paz, concretamente, las conversaciones que por primera vez mantuvieron el lider del SDLP, John Hume, y el líder del Sinn Féin, Gerry Adams. A través de un uso altamente imaginativo del Coro, Heaney buscó transmitir al público al que originalmente estaba destinada la obra la idea de que había que centrarse en el futuro y no en el pasado, así como que creer en un tiempo mejor era posible. Palabras clave. Seamus Heaney, The Cure at Troy, el proceso de paz, Irlanda del Norte, John Hume, Gerry Adams, compañía de teatro Field Day.
Journal Article
EUR:Prince Charles shakes hands with Adams
GALWAY, Ireland, May 19 AFP - Prince Charles has become the first British royal to meet Irish republican leader Gerry Adams, on a visit that will take him to the scene of his great-uncle's murder by the IRA. Adams has always rejected allegations that he was a key figure in the IRA, which killed Charles's beloved great-uncle and mentor Earl Mountbatten in 1979. Adams and other senior Sinn Fein members boycotted Queen Elizabeth II's groundbreaking visit to Ireland in 2011, the first by a British monarch since the future Republic of Ireland gained independence from Britain in 1922.
Newsletter
Gerry Adam's: IRA are 'noble' heroes
GERRY Adams last night caused outrage by praising the \"extraordinary calibre\" of IRA terrorist volunteers at an event to commemorate the \"noble cause\" of Irish Republicanism. He told his audience the IRA had stimulated moves towards peace, declaring: \"There would be no peace process if it were not for the IRA.\" Speaking against a backdrop listing the names of the IRA or Sinn Fein dead, he added: \"Of the 365 names on the Roll of Honour the vast majority are of IRA volunteers. Many died on active service against the British forces, some at the hands of Loyalists, others as a result of tragic accidents.
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