TY - BOOK AU - McKearney,Tommy TI - Provisional IRA : from insurrection to parliament SN - 9780745330747 U1 - 941.60284 22 PY - 2011/// CY - London PB - Pluto Press KW - Provisional IRA KW - History KW - Irish Republican Army KW - Sinn Fein KW - Terrorism KW - Northern Ireland KW - 20th century KW - Violence KW - Ireland KW - Politics and government KW - 1969-1994 KW - 1994- N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: from orange state to sectarian state / Paul Stewart -- Police batons respond to demand for civil rights -- Unionist determination to deny democracy -- The violent storms of August '69 -- Widespread conflict looms -- An emerging force -- Training people for insurrection? -- Attempting to quell the insurgency by bloodshed and blandishment -- The political and military strategy of the Provisional IRA -- The war in England -- Britain's response -- Reviewing stategy in the mid-1970s -- The gradual adoption of parliamentarianism -- Options and opportunities -- The road less travelled...the left alternative -- Parliamentary Sinn Féin, 'surrender and re-grant' -- From armalites to populist conformity -- General election upset in the South -- The end of a journey -- A new republic and a relevant republicanism ER -