Richard English is Professor of Politics at Queen's University Belfast, where he is also Distinguished Professorial Fellow in the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security, and Justice. He is the author of numerous books, including the award-winning studies Armed Struggle: The History of the IRA.
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The IRA has been a much richer, more complexly layered, and more protean organization than is frequently recognized. It is also more open to balanced examination now—at the end of its long war in the north of Ireland—than it was even a few yea... SEE MORE