Informers in 20th Century Ireland: The Costs of Betrayal

ISBN-13: 9781476673295 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 244 str.

Angela Duffy

Opis

Informers have been a characteristic of all the periods of unrest in Ireland, but, apart from Tudor times, were never really an organised phenomenon until the 20th century. This account provides a history of the gradual development of informing via a series of case studies, illustrating differing events across the span of both the century and the country.

Spis treści

• Acknowledgments
• Preface
• “Kate Maloney”
• Introduction
• “Dripsey Ambush”
• 1. The Evolutionary Years
• “Let Erin Remember”
• 2. The Emergency and After (1939–1974)
• “The Crime of Castlereagh”
• 3. Persuasion in Castlereagh
• “The Informer”
• 4. British Intelligence and the Army
• “Daddy, who was Judas?”
• 5. The Supergrasses
• Conclusion
• Appendix: Principal Methods of Torture Used in Holywood and Girdwood Barracks
• Chapter Notes
• Bibliography
• Index