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by Ed Moloney


  betrayal of, 3–6, 24–34, 250, 326, 332, 340, 489, 556

  cancelled 1987 trip, 31

  impact of loss, 326–29, 333–34, 460

  and “Tet offensive,” 274, 281, 306, 434

  elections:

  1918 Irish general election, 198

  1955 British general election, 50, 198

  1957 Irish general election, 198

  1969 British by-election, 65

  1969 Northern Ireland Assembly, 65

  1970 British general election, 89

  1973 Northern Ireland Sunningdale Assembly, 128, 199

  1973 Northern Ireland local council, 128

  1975 Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention, 200

  1979 European parliament, 200

  1981 Fermanagh-South Tyrone by-election, 210–14

  1981 Irish general election, 202, 212, 290–91

  1982 Irish general election, 291

  1982 Northern Ireland Assembly, 219

  1983 British general election, 240

  1984 European parliament, 240

  1985 Northern Ireland local council, 241

  1986 British by-election, 241

  1987 British general election, 241

  1987 Irish general election, 340

  1989 Irish general election, 340

  1991 Irish local council, 340

  1992 British general election, 340

  1993 Northern Ireland local council, 417

  1993 Northern Ireland local council by-election, 417

  1996 Northern Ireland Forum, 442, 457

  1997 British general election, 457–58, 495–96, 528

  1997 Irish general election, 458

  1997 Northern Ireland local council, 458

  2002 Irish general election, 529–30

  2003 Northern Ireland Assembly, 530, 532, 534–35, 540–41

  2004 European parliament, 541

  2005 British general election, 558, 563–64

  2007 Northern Ireland Assembly, 591

  2007 Irish general election, 564

  Eleven Plus test, 45–46

  Elizabeth I, 39

  Elizabeth II, 53, 133, 175

  Elliott, Mark, 258, 284

  engineering department (Provisional IRA), 329, 377–78

  England department (Provisional IRA), 31, 336–37, 346, 442–43

  Enniskillen bomb (1987), see Provisional

  IRA: operations, Enniskillen

  ETA, 511, 585

  European Commission on Human Rights, 206

  European Court of Human Rights, 102

  European department (Provisional IRA), 336–37, 346

  Falls Road, see Belfast: Falls Road

  Falls Road curfew, 90–92

  FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia), 486–87, 490, 511–12

  Farrell, Mairead, 330, 526

  Farren, Neil (bishop of Derry), 354

  Farren, Sean, 278

  Faul, Father Denis, 213–14, 227

  Faulkner, Brian, 98–100, 110, 139

  Fay, Michael, 224

  FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation), 509, 581

  Feakle meeting, 143, 165–66, 177

  Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 16, 32

  federalism vs. unitary state debate, see Eire Nua

  Feeney, Charles “Chuck,” 421, 460

  Feeney, Hugh, 170, 582

  Felons Club, 197

  Fenian Brotherhood, 309

  Fenian movement, 38

  Fenton, Joe, see informers/security breaches (Provisional IRA): Fenton, Joe

  Ferris, Martin, 453, 479, 517, 529, 544, 583

  Fianna Fail, 40, 47, 239, 261, 324, 462, 496, 498, 519

  elections, 212, 226, 458, 495, 529

  and Irish reunification, 263–64

  and pan-nationalism, 270, 273, 435

  and peace process, 280, 395

  and unionist consent, 408–9

  see also Ahern, Bertie; de Valera, Eamonn; Haughey, Charles; Lynch, Jack; Mansergh, Martin; Reynolds, Albert

  Financial Times, 487

  Fine Gael, 212, 266, 435, 495

  see also Bruton, John; FitzGerald, Garret

  Finucane, Dermot, 577

  Finucane, John, 577

  Finucane, Pat, 577–78

  Finucane, Seamus, 577

  First Battalion (Provisional IRA), 87

  First Dail, 154, 287

  Fitt, Gerry, 64, 211, 354, 361

  FitzGerald, Garret, 242, 249, 268, 291, 325, 435

  and Anglo-Irish Agreement, 241, 273

  isolating Provisionals, 233–34

  5 October 1968 march (Derry), 63–64, 352, 354

  Flanagan, Ronnie Sir, 510, 523, 572–73

  Flannery, Michael, 16, 188

  Fleming, Kieran, 313–14

  Fletcher, WPC Yvonne, 13, 15, 24

  flying column, 312–14, 333–34

  Flynn, Bill, 231, 421, 489–90

  Flynn, Phil, 545

  Force Research Unit, see British intelligence: Force Research Unit

  Foreign Office, the (British), 256–57

  Foreign Policy Studies, 491

  Forum for Peace and Reconciliation, 277, 425, 433

  Four Square Laundry, see Provisional IRA:

  operations, Four Square Laundry

  Fox, Bernard, 81, 583–84

  Fox, Charlie, 307

  Fox, J. Edward, 24

  Fox, Tess, 307

  Freeland, Lieutenant General Sir Ian, 89

  Free Presbyterian Church, xiii, 590

  Friends of Ireland, 554

  Friends of Sinn Fein (FoSF), 460, 582

  Galvin, Martin, 421, 581–82

  Garda Siochana (Irish police), 16, 50, 101, 159, 172, 242, 262, 325

  arms seizures, 24, 32, 171, 387, 389

  Northern Bank robbery, 544–45

  Special Branch, 5, 161, 330, 388, 462, 515, 520

  Garland, Sean, 59, 71

  Garvaghy Road, see Drumcree protests

  General Army Orders, 75, 293

  George, Lloyd, 37, 498

  George IV, 287

  gerrymandering, 353

  GHQ (Provisional IRA), 297, 338, 343, 431, 438, 445, 449, 462, 468, 486

  and operations, 305, 331, 333, 346, 443

  structure, 376–77

  Gibney, Jim, 300, 324, 399–402, 404, 418

  Gibraltar, see Provisional IRA: operations, Gibraltar

  Gibson, Ned, 319

  Gillen, Brian, 446, 454, 471

  as Belfast commander, 439–40, 449, 459

  and 1997 convention, 477–79, 517

  Gillespie, Neil, 357

  Gillespie, Patsy, 347

  Gilmore, George, 57

  Glover, Brigadier James, 173–74

  Godson, Dean, 501, 510, 521

  Good Friday Agreement (1998), 251, 259, 272, 296, 402, 481–89

  and decommissioning, 494–97, 500–1, 503–50, 520

  power-sharing Executive, 587–91

  suspension 2002, 525, 585

  Good, Reverend Harold, 60, 62

  Gormley, Tony, 307

  Gough barracks, see Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC): interrogation centers

  Goulding, Cahal, 96, 136–37, 184, 189, 203, 266, 291, 295, 301–3

  and abstentionism, 71–72, 288–89

  and August 1969, 68, 70

  as chief of staff (1962), 51

  and IRA split (1969), 198, 293, 505–506

  and MacStiofain opposition, 74–77, 79–80

  and move to the left, 54, 56–60

  Government of Ireland Act (1920), 254, 271, 273, 276, 470, 484

  Gow, Ian, 336

  Graham, Edgar, 243, 317

  Grand Hotel, 247

  “gray document,” the, 186–89 “Green Book,” the, 154–57

  Green Party, 588

  Grew, Dessie, 313–14, 318

  Greysteel, 415

  GRIT (Graduated and Reciprocated Initiatives in Tension Reduction), 352, 367, 371

  Guardian, 570
/>   Gulf of Sirte, 14

  Haas, Richard, 491, 532, 554

  Hagans, Bridgeen, 549–50, 553

  Hain, Peter, 503, 589

  Hamas, 347, 585

  Hanna, David, 341–42

  Hanna, Maureen, 341–42

  Hanna, Robert, 341–42

  Hannaway, Alfie, 38, 109, 230–31

  Hannaway, Billy, 38

  Hannaway, Kevin, 17, 71, 109, 157, 384

  Hannaway, Liam, 38, 60, 68, 109

  Hannaway, Michael, 38

  Hannaway, Tommy, 38

  Harland and Wolff, 44

  Harney, Mary, 558

  Harrison, George, 16–17

  Harte, Gerard, 316, 318

  Harte, Martin, 316, 318

  Hartley, Tom, 278, 299–300, 402, 437

  Haughey, Charles, 274, 285, 300, 303, 399, 463

  background, 264–66

  and peace process, xv, 261, 263, 267–69, 286

  Reid-Adams contacts, 262–63, 269–78, 280–84, 289, 297, 395

  Haughey, Sean, 264

  Hayes, Stephen, 159

  H Blocks (Long Kesh prison), 145, 201, 205

  see also Cage 11, Long Kesh; hunger strikes; prison protests

  Heath, Edward, 89, 111

  Heatherington, Vincent, see informers/security breaches (Provisional IRA): Heatherington, Vincent

  Heathrow Airport mortars, see Provisional IRA: operations, Heathrow Airport mortars

  Heffernan, Margaret, 263

  Hegarty, Frank, see informers/security breaches (Provisional IRA): Hegarty, Frank

  Hendron, Joe, 339

  Henry, Harry, 314, 319

  Henry, Henry (bishop of Down and Connor), 229

  Heron, Hugh, 311

  Heseltine, Michael, 249

  Hezbollah, 580

  Hibernia (Dublin), 187–88

  Hibernian tendency, 308

  Hickey, Eileen, 121

  Hillery, Patrick, 110

  Hillsborough agreement, see Anglo-Irish Agreement (1985)

  Hillsborough Castle, 502, 531

  Holland, Jack, 333

  Holland, Mary, 337, 396

  Home Rule, 42

  Hope Against History, 333

  Hopkins, Adrian, 5, 18–19, 23, 25–27, 32–33

  House of Commons, 171, 211, 288

  Howe, Sir Geoffrey, 331–32

  Howell, Ted, 401–2, 404, 420–21, 460, 581

  Hoyt, William, 548

  Hughes, Brendan, 81, 106–7, 121, 139–41, 227

  arms smuggling, 114–15

  arrests, 133, 139, 146

  in Cage 11, 148–49, 157, 170

  hunger strike, 206–8, 228, 260

  Hughes, Brendan (Tyrone), 385

  Hughes, Charlie, 97, 106

  Hughes, Francis (Frank), 383, 568

  human bombs, 347–50, 556

  Hume, John, xiii, xxi, 110, 128, 211, 232, 238, 241, 248, 255, 264, 300, 357, 361–62, 389, 405, 415, 417

  and Adams visa, 420

  European elections, 202, 240, 563

  and Good Friday Agreement, 483

  Hume-Adams document, 410, 416

  Hume-Adams process, 277–83, 285, 408

  and Major-Adams negotiations, 455

  Nobel Peace Prize, xxi, 278

  and October 1968 march, 354

  and pan-nationalist alliance, 393, 435

  quits politics, 541

  see also Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP)

  Hume-Adams document, 409–11, 416

  Hume-Adams process, 277–83, 285, 408–9, 413–14, 441

  hunger strikes:

  1972, 118, 167, 213

  1980, 190, 206–8, 228

  1981, 12, 190, 208–10, 213–16, 290, 540, 558, 566–72

  Hurson, Martin, 308, 569

  Hyde, Representative Henry, 511

  IICD (Independent International Commission on Decommissioning), 500–501, 503–4, 516, 560–62

  Independent (London), 371

  Independent Monitoring Commision, 546

  Independent Orange Order, 590

  informers/security breaches (Provisional IRA), 156

  and Belfast Brigade, 336

  Crumlin prison escape, 333

  Davison, Brendan “Ruby,” 335, 575

  Donaldson, Denis, 524, 579–80, 582–84

  and the Eksund, 3–6, 24–34, 250, 326, 332, 340, 489

  and European department, 336

  Fenton, Joe, 28–31, 335

  and Gibraltar, 332

  Heatherington, Vincent, 141, 146

  Hegarty, Frank, 25, 387–89

  and internal security department, 156, 574–76

  and IRA structures, 317–18, 332–34

  and London bomb, 128

  and Loughgall, 305–6, 315

  Lynch, Sandy, 334, 336, 384

  Magee, John Joe, 575–76

  Mahon, Catherine and Gerald, 29

  McKee, Kevin, 119–22

  MI5 agent in IRA Executive/Southern Command/Sinn Fein, 28

  Molloy, Eamonn, 133–36, 138–41, 146, 162

  Morgan, Seamus, 582

  and Northern Command, 336

  O’Callaghan, Sean, 16, 381, 517

  Roslea attack, 334

  Scappaticcl, Freddie, 574–78, 582

  and Tyrone Brigade, 336

  Wright, Seamus, 119–22

  Ingram, Martin, 576, 578

  internal security department, see Provisional IRA: security unit (internal security unit)

  International Marxist Group, 186

  internment (1971), 98, 100–101, 103, 176–77, 361

  Interpol, 330

  In Which We Serve, 175

  IRA (pre-1969 split):

  and abstentionism, 58–60

  in August 1969, 7, 67–68, 70

  Border Campaign (1956–62), 50–52, 56, 60, 498

  and Irish civil war, 50

  Forties Campaign, 48–52

  and the Irish state, 48–49

  and military defeats, 46–47

  1940–50s, 38–39, 41–42

  1960s, 7, 54–56, 60–64

  1969 split, 71–72, 76–77, 495, 505

  see also Goulding, Cahal

  Iraq war, 531

  Iris Bheag, 137, 298–300, 302

  Irish civil war, 40, 47, 50, 287, 498

  Irish Examiner, 565

  Irish government, 233–34, 265, 423–25, 436–37, 473, 484–85

  Department of Foreign Affairs, 520

  Department of Justice, 544

  see also Ahem, Bertie; de Valera, Eamonn; FitzGerald, Garret; Haughey, Charles; Lynch, Jack; Reynolds, Albert

  Irish Independence Party, 202

  Irish Independent, 584

  Irish National Caucus, 300

  Irish National Liberation Army (INLA), 12, 176, 205–6, 223–25, 314–15, 323, 505, 507–8

  Irish News (Belfast), 222–23, 398, 457, 584

  Irish Northern Aid (Noraid), 16, 188, 209, 309, 402, 421–22, 460–61, 581–82

  Irish People, 581

  Irish Press (Dublin), 233, 268–69, 396, 584

  Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB), 149, 198, 309–10

  Irish Republican Socialist Party, 202

  Irish Times (Dublin), 195, 209, 279, 341, 419, 421, 491, 560, 564, 584

  Adams interviews and articles, 257, 396, 400, 456

  Irish Volunteers, 309

  Irish Workers Party, 59

  Islamic jihadists, 497, 580

  Jalloud, Major Ahmed, 24

  John XXIII, 52

  John Paul II, 237

  Johnson, John Francis, 512

  Johnson, Richard, 33

  Johnston, Gillian, 341

  Johnston, Roy, 56–57, 68, 75, 77, 185

  political program, 57–59

  Johnston, Colonel Wedgeworth, 287

  Jones, Daffyd, 213

  Kearney, Claran, 524, 579

  Kearney, Declan, 579

  Kearney, Michael, 155–56

  Keenan, Brian, 136–38, 1
62, 488

  on Army Council, 164–65, 479, 517, 583–84 and Colombia, 511–13

  and electoral strategy, 215–16, 292

  and IICD, 503–4, 522, 533, 559

  and 1996 convention, 446, 453

  and 1997 cease-fire, 470–71

  and reorganization plans, 158–59

  Keenan, Brian (hostage), 580

  Keenan, Sean, 60, 357

  Kelley, Kevin, 170

  Kelly, Billy, 60, 70

  Kelly, Eugene, 307

  Kelly, Gerry, 126, 381, 458, 470, 475, 547, 588

  and Adams think tank, 403, 405, 418

  on Army Council, 381, 384

  and 1994–96 cease-fire, 422, 424, 426, 439

  and 1996 convention, 448, 452–53

  and 1999 convention, 520

  Kelly, HMS, 74

  Kelly, Captain James, 265–66

  Kelly, John, 60, 70, 265–66, 510

  Kelly, Liam, 310

  Kelly, Patrick (Paddy), 307, 312, 315

  Kennedy, John F., 52, 350

  Kennedy, Senator Ted, 553

  Kennedy-Smith, Jean, 427

  Kerr, Frank, 433–34, 499–500

  Kevin Street, 199

  Khrushchev, Nikita, 350

  Kilmichael, 176

  King, Congressman Peter, 554

  King, Tom, 246, 248–52, 255–60, 277, 394, 579

  King, William, 358–59

  Kingsmills massacre, see Provisional IRA: operations, Kingsmills massacre

  King’s Own Scottish Borderers, 333–34

  Kirkpatrick, Jeane, 420

  Kissinger, Henry, 234, 420

  Kula, 19, 24, 387

  Labour Party (British), 44, 57, 457, 461, 496

  Labour Party (Irish), 212, 266, 412, 435

  Labour Party (Northern Ireland), 54

  Lafferty, Eamonn, 361

  Lake, Anthony, 490

  La Mon Hotel, see Provisional IRA: operations, La Mon

  Lampen, Diana, 364–67, 370–71

  Lampen, John, 364–67, 370–71

  Laneside, 144, 258

  Larry King Live show, 420

  Law, Bernard (cardinal of Boston), 237

  Lean, Robert “Beano,” 243

  Leinster House (the Dail), 58, 201, 288, 295

  Lemass, Sean, 54, 58, 62, 261, 265

  Lenadoon, see Belfast: Lenadoon

  Leng, Brigadier Peter, 358

  Libya, 152–53

  arms shipments to IRA, 3–4, 9–10, 15, 17, 19–20, 23–24, 138, 326, 536, 561

  cash to IRA, 9–10, 13, 15, 23, 460

  history, 6–8

  Libyan Intelligence Service, 9, 14, 17, 23, 328

  and the West, 13–14

  see also Qaddafi, Colonel Muammar

  Light Infantry, 67

  Liguori, Alphonsus, 228

  Lisnaskea, see Provisional IRA: operations, Lisnaskea school bus bomb

  Logue, Gerard, 301

  London bombs, see Provisional IRA:

  operations, London bombs

  Long, Des, 294

  “long war” doctrine, see Provisional IRA: Cage 11 reorganization, “long war” doctrine

  Long Kesh prison, 109, 133–34, 140, 203, 306, 313

 

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