Alexander, Yonah, and Alan O'Day, eds. Terrorism in Ireland. New York: St. Martin's, 1984. Alexander, Yonah, and Alan O'Day, eds. Terrorism in Ireland. New York: St. Martin's, 1984.
Wilcox: "Irish Republican Army, Sein Fein, Provos, Constabulary."
Alexander, Yonah, and Alan O'Day, gen. eds. The International Library of Terrorism. 5 vols. New York: G.K. Hall, 1994.
Vol. II. O'Day, Alan, ed. Dimensions of Irish Terrorism.
I. Causations of Political Violence
II. Participants in Terrorism
III. The Impact of Terrorism in the Community
IV. Responses to Terrorism
Boyne, Sean. Gunrunners: The Covert Arms Trail to Ireland. Dublin: O’Brien, 2006.
From publisher: "With interviews with the dealers, agents and traffickers involved in the movement of huge quantities of arms into Ireland in the 1970s and 1980s, Sean Boyle exposes many of the little-known aspects of this part of Irish history, such as the IRA's connections to the KGB and Libya."
McGuire, Eamon. Enemy of the Empire: Life as an International Undercover IRA Activist. Dublin: O’Brien Press, 2006.
This is one of those books the advertising of which raises credability questions. When the publisher headlines that the author was "the CIA's most-wanted IRA man," as though the CIA was some sort of international law enforcement agency, it is easy to wonder about how much is fact and how much fiction.
Munnelly, Brendan. Who's Bugging You? Inside Ireland's Secret World of Electronic Surveillance. Cork: Mercier Press, 1987.
O'Callaghan, Sean. The Informer: The Real Story of One Man's War against Terrorism. London: Corgi, 1999.
From publisher: For 14 years before 1988, the author "had been the most highly placed informer within the IRA and had fed the Irish police force with countless pieces of valuable information." This "is the story of a life lived under the constant threat of discovery and its fatal consequences."
O'Flaherty, Eamon. "Ireland's Nazis." History Ireland 15, no. 2 (Mar.-Apr. 2007): 48-49.
This review of two 1-hour programs on Ireland television, "Ireland's Nazis," on 9 and 16 January 2007, notes that the main theme "is the use of Ireland as a safe haven or refuge for a number of fugitive Nazis in the immediate post-war era."
Daniel Leach, "Irish Post-War Asylum: Nazi Sympathy, Pan-Celticism or Raisons d'Etat?" History Ireland 15, no. 3 (May-Jun. 2007): 36-41, "takes issue with some of the conclusions" in the "Ireland's Nazis" documentary. He points out that "it is now commonly understood that Ireland's neutrality [during World War II] was 'friendly' toward the Allies in practical, if discreet terms."
O'Halpin, Eunan. "Anglo-Irish Security Co-operation since 1969: A Dublin Perspective." Conflict Quarterly 10, no 1 (1990): 1-18.
O'Halpin, Eunan. Defending Ireland: The Irish State and Its Enemies Since 1922. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.
O’Halpin, Eunan, Robert Armstrong, and Jane Ohlmeyer, eds. Intelligence, Statecraft and International Power: The Irish Conference of Historians. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2006.
According to Peake, Studies 52.1 (Mar. 2008) and Intelligencer 16.1 (Spring 2008), this work contains 15 of the papers presented in 2005 at "a conference at Trinity College in Dublin on intelligence from ancient to contemporary times.... Seven articles discuss the history of Irish intelligence over four centuries, a fascinating topic little reported in literature.... The broad historical perspective of this volume on what works and what does not in intelligence will be of value to students of the profession as they search for answers to today’s intelligence problems."
Skelly, IJI&C 21.4 (Winter 2008-2009), finds that "[w]hile this collection's assessment of intelligence in Ireland is timely, an added benefit is its comparative framework.... Another advantage is its extended timeframe."
Wylie, Paula. Ireland and the Cold War: Recognition and Diplomacy 1949-1963. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2006.
From publisher: "Arguing that Irish foreign policy in the area of recognition was based on the flexibility required of small state diplomacy..., the author's research in the area of Ireland's approach toward emerging and reconstituted states illustrates the high level of professionalism, commitment and administrative consistency within the Department of External Affairs in the administration of foreign policy."
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