by Ed Moloney
“Armalite and ballot box” strategy, 152, 203, 216, 340, 567
Arms Trial, 265–66, 274
Armstrong, Thomas, 324
Army Conventions (Provisional IRA), 378–89, 418, 559
1969, 71
1986, 288, 292–93, 312, 328, 376, 390, 397–98, 447
1996, 440–42, 444–56, 464–65, 468, 471, 476–78, 488, 518, 573
1997, 475–79, 483, 517, 609–11
1998, 481, 487–88, 518
1999, 518, 520–21
Army Council (Provisional IRA), 16, 149, 155, 172, 182, 204, 213, 292, 313, 321, 335, 348, 441, 485, 499, 517, 520, 540–41
and Adams think tank, 401–5
and British contacts (1990–93), 405–10
and British withdrawal, 392–94, 407–10
and cease-fires:
1994–96, 396–97, 427, 429–33, 438–42
1997, 262, 462, 467–72
and army conventions:
1996, 447–54, 468
1997, 477–79
and Downing Street Declaration, 417–19, 422
and Eksund betrayal, 32–33, 326
and elections, 215, 293, 327–28
demilitarization of funerals, 302–3
divisions in, 386–87
first Army Council, 74–79
and fourteen-point proposal, 424–54
functions, 378
and Hume-Adams document, 409–12
and IRA operations, 331–32, 336–39, 348, 414–15, 433–4, 459, 511, 527
membership, 380–86
merger of AP-RN, 179–80
and “Nine Pointer” document, 406–8
and 1974–75 cease-fire, 143–44, 171, 246
in 1977, 164–66
and peace process, 297–98, 336, 389–90, 395, 408, 470
and Reid-Adams initiative, 239, 250, 256–60, 269, 274, 280, 394–95, 398, 400, 406–7
source of authority, 375–76, 379
and “Tet offensive,” 326–27, 336
Arnheim, Battle of, 176
Arthurs, Brian, 315, 583
Arthurs, Declan, 307
Ashour, Nasser, 15, 17, 19, 328
Assets Recovery Agency (ARA), 565
Atkins, Humphrey, 171, 173, 228
August 1969, 6–7, 65–66, 68, 229
Balcombe Street unit (Provisional IRA), 291, 381, 480, 482
Ballygawley bomb, see Provisional IRA: operations, Ballygawley
Ballymurphy, see Belfast: Ballymurphy
barricades, 66–67, 86, 354–55
Barry, Tom, 176
Basques, 9, 487
Battle of the Bogside, see Derry: Battle of the Bogside
BBC TV Panorama, 173
Beattie, Desmond, 360–61
Begley, Thomas, 415
Behal, Richard, 184, 192
Behan, Brendan, 51
Belfast
Andersonstown, 188, 363, 577
Ardoyne, 66, 89–90, 177
Ballymurphy, 84, 86–89, 91–93, 99, 104–5, 121, 210
Bombay Street, 7, 71, 81, 85, 95, 229
Clonard, 6–7, 38, 67, 95, 229
Divis Flats, 123
Divis Street, 63, 66–67
Falls Road, 63, 66, 81, 90–92
Lenadoon, 113
Markets, 63, 549, 575
New Barnsley, 84, 86
Poleglass, 537
Shankill Road, 65, 71, 85, 221–22, 229, 414, 577
Short Strand, 89–90, 549, 551, 558, 580
Belfast Brigade (Provisional IRA), 121, 126–128, 141, 160, 164, 333, 339, 449, 575
arrest of staff, 133, 139
and Fenton, Joe, 29–30, 335
and Sinn Fein, 243–44
Belgrano, SS, 268
Bell, Ivor, 121, 173, 194, 214, 332, 388
and Adams, Gerry, 106, 117–18, 152–55, 158, 166, 244–45, 317
arrest, 139, 146, 243
cease-fire talks, 14, 113–15
as chief of staff, 160, 215, 242, 613
court martial, 244, 302, 381–82, 384
electoral politics, 242–43
Libya links, 14–15, 57, 166, 243
in Long Kesh, 149–50, 163, 575
Benson, Michael, 516
Beresford, David, 570
Berry, Sir Anthony, 247
Berry, Peter, 265
Best, Ranger William, 111
Binead, Niall, 564
Birches, the, see Provisional IRA: operations, Birches, the black taxis, 222
Blair, Lieutenant Colonel David, 176
Blair, Tony, 457–58, 461, 482–83, 491, 496, 548, 553, 585–86, 591
and decommissioning, xiv, 494, 497, 501–5, 509–11, 522–23, 528, 539, 541–43 ‘naive idiot,’ 511
Stormont spy ring, 524
2003 Assembly election, 530–31
Blaney, Neil, 200, 264–66
Blanket, The, 512
blanket protest, 189–90, 201, 205–6
Blanketmen, 568, 571
Bloody Friday (Belfast), 116–18, 133, 172
Bloody Sunday (Derry), 110, 112, 118, 362, 548–49
Bloomfield, Ken, 256
Bodenstown, 83, 151, 185, 302, 549
Bogside (Derry), 65–66, 280, 355–62, 365–66
Boland, Kevin, 265
Bombay Street, see Belfast: Bombay Street
Bonner, Pat, 583
Border Campaign, 311, 321, 492
Boundary Commission, 47
Boyle, Anne, 243–45
Bradley, Denis, 405–6
Bradwell, Warrant Officer James, 444
Breathnach, Deasun, 179–80
Breen, Dan, 105
Breen, Suzanne, 419
Breton nationalist movement, 8
Brighton bomb, see Provisional IRA: operations, Brighton bomb
British army, 81, 100, 102–3, 164, 176, 302
in Ballymurphy, 89, 91, 93, 95–96, 102, 105
deployed on the streets, 66, 107, 356
in Derry, 350, 352, 356, 358–59, 360, 362–63, 548
operations, 90–91, 117, 119–21, 133, 255, 304–5
and PRG, 365, 367–70
see also individual regiments
British government, 215, 286, 437, 461, 484–85
broadcasting ban, 256, 396, 433
interest in Northern Ireland, 252–55, 282, 284
interparty talks, 458, 461, 473
IRA contacts, 113–14, 143–44, 165–66, 207, 213, 246, 405–8
power-sharing Assembly, 128–29
Reid-Adams contacts, 247–60, 267
security policy, 144–45, 256
see also Blair, Tony; Brooke, Peter; Heath, Edward; King, Tom; Major, John; Mason, Roy; Mayhew, Patrick; Mowlam, Mo; Prior, James; Rees, Merlyn; Thatcher, Margaret; Wilson, Harold; Whitelaw, William
British intelligence, 104, 126, 140, 247, 249, 459
Force Research Unit, 388, 576–79
and McConville, Jean, 123–24
MRF, 119–21, 140
penetration of IRA, 134, 136, 140, 319, 442–43
and Reid-Adams contacts, 248, 260
see also MI5; MI6; Oatley, Michael; Oldfield; Sir Maurice
British Irish Rights Watch, 582
British withdrawal (republican policy on), 183–84
Army Council and, 392–94, 407–10
in Hume-Adams document, 410–11
redefinition of, 251–55, 298, 394–95, 400–1, 484
in Reid-Adams initiative, 271, 275
Broadcasting Act, 290
Brooke, Peter, 248–50, 258–60, 394–96
neutrality speech, 255, 282–83, 398
Brookeborough, Lord Basil, 53, 498
Browne, Vincent, 170
Brownie articles, see Adams, Gerry: Brownie articles
Bruton, John, 435–36, 495
Bryson, Jim, 105–6, 113, 168
B Specials, 39, 43, 219, 355–56
and August 1969, 66, 81
disbanding, 62, 85
Burns, Harry, 28
–31
Burns, Ian, 257–58
Burnside, David, 523, 526
Burntollet march, 64–65, 354–55
Bush, George W., 487, 490–91, 534, 531, 553–54, 565, 591
Butler, Eddie, 480
Byrne, Sir James, 287
Butler, Sir Robin, 283–85
Caffrey, Grainne, 179
Cage 6, Long Kesh, 148
Cage 9, Long Kesh, 149
Cage 11, Long Kesh, 177, 200, 208, 270
reorganization plan, 148–65, 167, 185, 196, 203, 334, 401
Cahill, Joe, 16, 101, 103, 106–7, 159, 201, 207, 215, 295, 476
Army Council, 79, 143, 381–82, 427, 517
and August 1969, 68, 70
as chief of staff, 118, 613
and the Claudia, 10–12
Libya links, 9–12, 15, 17
and IRA split (1969), 60, 75
and 1994–96 cease-fire, 397, 426–27
and 1997 convention, 452–53
and Tom Williams, 382
Cahill, Tom, 133
Cairns, Henry, 5, 18, 23, 25
Campaign for Social Justice, 62
Campbell, Jimmy, 244, 317
Camp Le Jeune, 16
Canary Wharf, see Provisional IRA: operations, Canary Wharf
Canning, Manus, 51
Cappagh dead, the, 324
Captive Voice, 298
Carlin, Thomas, 360
Carlingford Lough, 22, 176, 326
Carmichael, Eddie, 243–44
Carron, Owen, 211, 213–14, 529, 567, 569–70
Carson, Edward, 61
Casamara, 19
Casement, Roger, 309
Cassey, William, 13
Castlereagh raid, see Provisional IRA: operations, Castlereagh raid
Castlereagh RUC station, see Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC): interrogation centers
Castro, Fidel, 511
Catholic Church, 40, 44, 190, 211, 227, 354
and IRA funerals, 301–2
and hunger strikes, 206, 209, 231–32
and peace process, 231–39, 269
cease-fires (Provisional IRA), 72–73, 112–16, 484–85
1974–75, 140–47, 162, 169, 397
1990, 397–98
1994–96, 350, 395–401, 411, 418–19, 422–442, 455, 472
1997, 262, 455–58, 461–63, 465, 467–72, 477–79, 609–11
cell structure, see Provisional IRA: Cage 11
reorganization, active-service units (ASUs)/cell structure
Channel Four Television, 396
Charles, Prince of Wales, 175
Chavez, Hugo, 511
Chesterton Finance, 545
Chichester-Clark, Major James, 65–66, 85–86, 89, 95–97
Chilcott, John, 283, 285, 458
Churchill, Winston, 44
CIA (Central Intelligence Agency, U.S.), 3, 13, 436
civil rights campaign (Northern Ireland), 7
see also Campaign for Social Justice;
Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association; People’s Democracy (PD)
Clancy, Peter, 319
Clann na Gael, 138, 309–10, 402
Clann na Poblachta, 49, 310
Clarke, Tom, 309
Claudia, 10–12, 137
Cleary, Gabriel, 3–6, 26, 32, 34
Clinton, Bill, 237, 427, 469, 491
and Adams, Gerry, 420, 437, 441–42, 459, 490
Irish visit, 391, 440
and McConville, Jean, 124
and peace process, 423–25, 483
Clinton, Senator Hillary, 553
Clogga Strand, 19, 31
Clonard Monastery, 6, 174, 220, 226, 230, 235, 249, 278
see also Belfast: Clonard; Redemptorist Congregation
Cochrane, Glen, 220
Cochrane, Lilly, 220
Cochrane, Sergeant Thomas, 219–25, 245, 428
Coll, James, 5
Colley, George, 266
Collins, Michael, xxi, 38, 150, 289–90, 420
and British intelligence, 120, 122
and Irish civil war, 40, 47
and 1921 Treaty, 113, 264, 287, 375, 400
Colombia arrests see Provisional IRA: operations, Colombia
Communist Party of Great Britain, 57, 75, 136
Communist Party of Northern Ireland, 59
Community Restorative Justice schemes, 588
“Concrete Proposal for a Political Strategy for Justice and Peace” (“Concrete Proposal”), 275, 280, 631–40
Connolly, Frank, 511
Connolly, James, 52, 77, 186
Connolly, Niall, 486, 511
Connolly Association, 57, 59, 75
Connolly Youth Movement, 59
Conrad na Gaelige, 74
Conservative Party (British), 44, 247, 457, 461
see also Heath, Edward; Major, John; Thatcher, Margaret
Continuity IRA, 289, 505, 507–9, 514
Conway Mill, 558
Conway, William (cardinal of Ireland), 233
Coogan, Owen, 133
Coogan, Tim Pat, 269, 298, 325, 396
Cornwallis, Lord, 83
Corrigan, Mairead, 363
Corsicans, 9
Coshquin, 350, 352, 367
see also Provisional IRA: operations, human bombs (Coshquin)
Costello, Seamus, 59
Coughlin, Anthony, 57
Council of Ireland, 10, 128, 138
Council on Foreign Relations, 554, 556–58
Coward, Noel, 175
Coyle, Joe, 360
Craig, James, 42
Craig, Jim, 223
Craig, William, 64, 352, 528
Creggan (Derry), 359–60, 362
Creemley, Kevin Noel, 512
Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB), 565
criminalization, 145, 352
Crumlin Road prison, 52, 291, 333
and MRF operations, 140
and O Connell, Daithi, 56, 78
Cumann na mBan, 38, 55, 59, 108
Curragh internment camp, 52, 78
Currie, Austin, 63, 211, 278
Curtis, Gunner Robert, 95–96
Cusack, Seamus, 360–61
DAAD (Direct Action Against Drugs), 437, 440
Dail Eireann (Irish parliament), 154, 212, 288, 328
Dail Uladh, 181
Daily Ireland, 584
Daily Mirror, see Provisional IRA: operations, Daily Mirror
Dallas, Leslie, 321
Daly, Cahal (bishop of Down and Connor), 234–36
Daly, Edward (bishop of Derry), 227, 234, 350
Davey, John Joe, 321–22
Davies, Colonel Paul, 365
Davison, Brendan “Ruby,” see informers/security breaches (Provisional IRA): Davison, Brendan ‘Ruby’
Davison, Gerard “Jock”, 549–52, 556, 575
Dawson, Joshua, 287
D Coy (Provisional IRA), 46, 60, 88, 103, 122
and Falls curfew, 91, 96–97
Death on the Rock, 330
de Baroid, Ciaran, 93
de Brun, Bairbre, 486, 541
de Chastelain, General John, 461, 488, 516, 522–23, 533–34, 542
final decommissioning, 559–63
decommissioning, xiv, 440, 442, 450–51, 456, 461, 463–64, 470, 474–75, 490–91, 463–535, 540–43, 545, 555, 564, 566. 572–74, 587
and Good Friday Agreement, 483, 487–92, 494–97, 500–05, 520
and Mitchell Report, 448, 469, 473
first decommissioning act, October 2001, 521–22
second decommissioning act, April 2002, 522, 529–30
final decommissioning act, September 2005, xiii, 559–563
Deery, John, 460
defender tradition, 80–84, 86–87, 229, 308, 320
defense committees, 67, 86, 265
see also defender tradition
Democratic Left, 436, 495
Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), 281, 321, 489, 523, 528
and deal with Sinn Fein, 540–42, 587–91
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see also Paisley, Ian
Derry
Battle of the Bogside, 355–56
British army in, 356, 358–63
de-escalation measures, 350, 352, 363, 365–71
history of, 352–54
Provisional IRA in, 360–63; see also Derry Brigade (Provisional IRA)
RUC in, 350, 352, 355, 358–60
Derry Brigade (Provisional IRA), 350, 361, 363, 370–71, 449
Derry Citizens Defence Association, 358
de Valera, Eamonn, xxi, 38, 53, 261, 289–90, 420
and Irish civil war, 50, 287
ends armed struggle, 40, 47, 375, 462, 492, 498
and 1937 constitution, 48, 276, 310
Devenney, Samuel, 355, 358
Deverill, John, 260
Devine, Brendan, 549–50
Devlin, Bernadette (Devlin-McAliskey), 110, 291, 359–60
elections, 65, 201–2
see also McAliskey, Bernadette
Devlin, Michael, 323
Devlin, Paddy, 405
dirty protest, 190, 201, 205–6
“disappeared” (secret burials), 121–25, 134
“double-disappeared,” 134
discrimination against Catholics in Northern Ireland, xix, 37, 42–45, 62–63, 353
Divis Flats, see Belfast: Divis Flats
Divis Street, see Belfast: Divis Street
Dodd, Senator Christopher, 553
Dodds, Nigel, 541
Doherty, Eamon, 613
Doherty, Hugh, 381, 480
Doherty, James, 5
Doherty, Kieran, 212
Doherty, Pat, 295, 417, 426, 473, 573
and Army Council, 380–81, 389, 517, 529
and army conventions:
1986, 397–98
1996, 441–42, 452–53
1997, 475, 479
Doherty, Tony, 300
Donaghmore, Earl and Countess, 405
Donaldson, Denis, 580–82
See also informers/security breaches (Provisional IRA): Donaldson, Denis
Donaldson, Jeffrey, 501
Donegan, Joe, 221–23
Donlon, Sean, 435
Donnelly, Seamus, 307
Doris, Tony, 318
Dorr, Noel, 284
Downing Street, 287, 412, 455
Downing Street Declaration, 284–86, 412–19, 422, 425, 430, 438, 464 “Draft 2,” 284–85
Droppin’ Well bomb, 224
Drumcree protests, 466–68
see also Orange Order: parades
Drumm, Jimmy, 60, 70, 140, 202, 204
Bodenstown address (1977), 151, 186, 290
British talks, 144, 148
Drumm, Maire, 204
Duddy, Brendan, 207, 405
Duggan, Harry, 480
Duignan, Sean, 419
Duisburg, 280–81
Dunne, Ben, 262–63
Durkan, Mark, 563–64
Easter Rising, xvi, 309–10, 567
East Tyrone Brigade (Provisional IRA), 304–8, 314–19, 324, 332–33, 447
Eire Nua (New Ireland), 181–83, 185–86, 189–91, 196
Eksund, xv, 18–23, 388, 406, 438, 487
