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'An Alien Ideology': Cold War Perceptions of the Irish Republican Left
Contributor(s): Mulqueen, John (Author)

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 ISBN: 1789620643     ISBN-13: 9781789620641
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
OUR PRICE: $157.50  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: November 2019
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- History | Europe - Ireland
- History | Europe - Great Britain - 20th Century
- Political Science | Political Ideologies - Communism, Post-communism & Socialism
Dewey: 335.009
LCCN: 2021277021
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.4" W x 9.3" L (1.30 lbs) 296 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Ireland
- Chronological Period - 20th Century
- Cultural Region - British Isles
 
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Publisher Description:
An 'Irish Cuba' - on Britain's doorstep? This book studies perceptions of the Soviets' 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 crusade against communism. Leading
officials, such as Colonel Dan Bryan in G2, the Irish army intelligence directorate, argued that Ireland should assist the NATO powers. These officials believed Irish communists were directed by the British communist party, the CPGB.

If communists in Belfast and Dublin 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 civil rights
agitation in Northern Ireland in the 1960s.

Did the left-wing republican movement constitute a security threat? Whitehall feared Dublin could become a Russian espionage hub, with the Marxist-led Official IRA acting as a Soviet proxy. To what extent was the Official IRA's political creation, the Workers' Party, useful to the Soviets' Cold War
agenda, in a militarily neutral state? With a parliamentary presence in the Irish state, the party warned against Ireland's incorporation into NATO and denounced the modernization of the Western alliance's nuclear arsenal.

This book offers a valuable new perspective on a much-studied period of Irish and British history.
 
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