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and Gibraltar, 330–31
and hunger strikes, 209, 213–14, 228, 232, 239, 261, 568–69
and Libya, 13–14
resignation, 283
security measures (1988), 338, 434
Thiepval barracks, 576, see also Provisional IRA: operations, Thiepval barracks bomb
think tank, see Adams, Gerry: and think tank
Third Battalion (Provisional IRA), 87, 89, 97, 122, 133
thirty-two-county democratic socialist republic, 183, 270
Thomas, Quentin, 283, 285, 458
Tidey, Don, kidnapping of, 242, 385
Times (London), 491
timing power unit (TPU), 5–6
Timothy, Mick, 179
Titanic, RMS, 43, 144
Tohill, Bobby, 541
Tolan, Tommy ‘Toddler,’ 105–6, 113, 168
Tone, Theobold Wolfe, 57, 82–83, 146, 231, 308
Toner, Father Tom, 226–27
Toohey, John L., 548
Towerstream, MV, 171
Tracy, Sean, 78
Travers, Mary, 243, 317
Travers, Tom, 243, 317
Treacy, Sean, 105
Treanor, Pat, 446
Treaty of 1921 (the Treaty), xviii–xix, 37, 40, 47, 113, 288, 394
Trimble, David, xiii, xiv, xxi, 483, 486, 489, 497, 501–4 510, 518, 521, 523, 525, 527–30, 532, 534–35, 540–41
Tripoli, 3–4, 6–7, 9, 11, 14, 19
Troubles, the, xiii, xvii–xix, 6, 16, 152
TUAS strategy, 435, 446, 452, 596–99
and 1994–96 cease-fire, 423, 429, 432, 438, 441, 472
Twomey, Seamus, 64, 98–99, 103, 106, 113, 122, 143, 157, 168–69, 172–73, 179, 185, 199, 386
and abstention debate, 293, 295
and Bloody Friday, 117–18
as chief of staff, 164, 613
and formation of Provisionals, 60, 70
Mountjoy escape, 163, 172
Tynan Abbey, 320
Tyrie, Andy, 11
Tyrone:
history of resistance, 308–12
Loughgall ambush, 304–8, 313–19, 324
see also East Tyrone Brigade (Provisional IRA)
Ulster Custom, 82
Ulster Defence Association (UDA), xviii, 10–11, 223, 290, 320, 414–15, 559, 577–78
Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR), 85, 184, 387
IRA attacks on, 219, 312, 314, 318–19, 336, 338, 340–41, 344
Ulster Unionist Council, 523
Ulster Unionist Party, 61, 98, 281, 500, 528, 541, 590
see also Chichester-Clark, Major James; Craig, James; Craig, William; Faulkner, Brian; O’Neill, Terence; Trimble, David
Ulster Volunteer Force (1912), 42
Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF), xviii, 61, 146, 323, 335
1966 killings, 61–63, 225
Tyrone killings (1988–91), 307, 314, 319–24
see also Shankill Butchers
Ulster Workers’ Councill, 528
Ulsterization, 145
unionism, see Northern Ireland state
unionist consent (attitudes to), 267, 272–73, 275, 285–86, 395, 399, 410, 465, 484
in Downing Street Declaration, 412–13
IRA view, 394, 407–9, 413
United Irishman, 77
United Irishmen, 81–83
United Nations, 531
“unknowns, the,” 122, 124
Vanguard Party, 528
Vatican, 232, 237
Vietnam, 586
Villa, 19, 20, 25, 327, 489
Vincent, Daniel, 319
Volklscher Beobachter, 584
Walker, James Edward, 512
Walsh, Representative Jim, 554–55
Walsh, Seanna, 558
Ward, Chris, 537–38, 546
Ward, Peter, 62
Warren, Will, 364
Washington Post, 491
weaponry, see Provisional IRA: weaponry
West Belfast Festival, 549
West, Harry, 212
Westminster, 288, 295
Whitaker, T. K., 264
Whitehall, 258
White House, the, 402, 491, 553
Whitelaw, William, 112–13, 116, 128–29
Widgery, Lord, 548
Williams, Betty, 363
Williams, Tom, 41, 230, 382
Wilsey, Lieutenant General Sir John, 366
Wilson, Gordon, 341
Wilson, Harold, 54, 64, 85, 89
Wilson, Marie, 341
Wilson, Padraig, 483, 487, 512–13
Wolfe Tone clubs, 56, 68
Women’s Coalition, 521
Workers Party, 436
World Trade Center, 347, 490–91
Wright, Billy, 323
Wright, Seamus, see informers/security breaches (Provisional IRA): Wright, Seamus
“Young Hooligans,” 356
Young Turks, 139–41
About the Author
Ed Moloney has been a reporter covering the Northern Ireland situation since 1978 and has been Northern Editor of the Irish Times (1981–5) and Northern Editor of the Sunday Tribune in Dublin (1987–2001). He co-authored a celebrated biography of the Reverend Ian Paisley in 1986 and has contributed to several other books, including a study of media coverage of the Northern Ireland violence. He has written for a wide range of newspapers and magazines in the United States and Britain, including the Washington Post, the NY Daily News, the New York Post, The Economist, the Independent, the Guardian, the New Statesman, New Society, and a variety of Irish publications. He has been a frequent commentator on BBC, CNN and commercial radio and television in Britain and Ireland, and has helped to produce a number of documentaries on the Irish Troubles. In 1999 he successfully defeated an attempt by London’s Scotland Yard Commissioner, Sir John Stevens, to force him to hand over notes of an interview with a loyalist paramilitary who alleged a police cover-up of the notorious murder of the Belfast attorney, Pat Finucane. In that year he was elected Irish Journalist of the Year. He is fifty-six, married with one son, and is currently living and working as a freelance journalist in New York.
* After the 1969 split the Officials designed a new Easter lily emblem, which republicans traditionally sport on their lapels to commemorate the 1916 Rising. Instead of using the customary pin to affix the paper emblem, the Officials backed theirs with adhesive, thus earning themselves the sobriquet “Sticky backs” or “Sticks.” A locally recruited regiment of the British army, the Royal Ulster Rifles, were also known by this nickname; in the world of republicanism the term thus acquired a subtle double meaning.
* Fatality figures up to this date are taken from David McKittrick et al., Lost Lives (Edinburgh, Mainstream Publishing, 1999).
* Fatality figures from 2000 to 2006 are taken or extrapolated from CAIN web service,
