Michael Collins and the Financing of Violent Political Struggle

ISBN-13: 9780367348984 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 222 str.

Nicholas Ridley

Opis

Michael Collins was a pivotal figure in the Irish struggle for independence and his legacy has resonated ever since. Whilst Collins’ role as a guerrilla leader and intelligence operative is well documented, his actions as the clandestine Irish government Minister of Finance have been less studied. The book analyses how funds were raised and transferred in order that the IRA could initiate and sustain the military struggle, and lay the financial foundations of an Irish state.Nicholas Ridley examines the legacy of these actions by comparing Collins’ modus operandi for raising and transferring clandestine funds to those of more modern groups engaged in political violence, as well as the laying of foundations for Irish financial and fiscal regulation.

Spis treści

PART I - Violent Undercurrents pre-1914 Europe  1. Violence in pre-1914 Europe  2. Ireland - peaceful, patient and hopeful  PART II – Michael Collins and the struggle for Irish independence  3. Cork, London, Dublin - and 1916 debacle  4. Collins reorganises the Volunteers…  5. And de Valera enlists America  6. The Anglo-Irish War 1919-1921  7. Collins’ Intelligence War  8. Treaty and Civil War  PART III – The Sinews of War  9. Preparing in London, active in Dublin  10. Filling the war chest - the National Loan  11. Funds from America, funds in America  12. Collins, Minister of Finance  13. The Anglo-Irish Treaty- Ireland’s fiscal autonomy  14. The North  15. The Sinews of Civil War and the Republicans hamstrung  PART IV 16. Later Political Violence and Insurgency and their Financing

O autorze

Nicholas Ridley is Senior Lecturer in Policing and Security at London Metropolitan University. He has previously worked as an Intelligence Analyst at New Scotland Yard, Criminal Intelligence Department and Anti-Terrorist Unit and at Europol.He has been a trainer in intelligence and anti-terrorism for police forces in Africa, and has lectured on combating terrorist financing on courses at NATO Centre of Excellence – Defence against Terrorism.