Bartlett, Thomas. "Informers, Informants and Information: The Secret History of the 1790s Reconsidered." In 1798: A Bicentenary Perspective, eds. Thomas Bartlett, et al., 406-422. Dublin: Four Courts, 2003. Bartlett, Thomas. "Informers, Informants and Information: The Secret History of the 1790s Reconsidered." In 1798: A Bicentenary Perspective, eds. Thomas Bartlett, et al., 406-422. Dublin: Four Courts, 2003.
Borgonovo, John. Spies, Informers and the "Anti-Sinn Fein Society": The Intelligence War in Cork City, 1919-1921. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2006.
From publisher: This book "analyses the existence" of "an Anti-Sinn Fein Society, a pro-British intelligence network operating" in Cork city; "alleged IRA persecution of ex-soldiers[;] and the strength of the IRA intelligence efforts in Cork city. It places these trends in the context of both the British reprisal campaign in Cork city, and the IRA's guerrilla struggle. The book contains significant original research that focuses on events in Cork city in 1920-1921."
Clutterbuck, Lindsay. "Countering Irish Republican Terrorism in Britain: Its Origin as a Police Function." Terrorism and Political Violence 18, no. 1 (2006): 95-118.
Deals with the period 1829-1900.
Doerries, Reinhard R. "Hopeless Mission: Sir Roger Casement in Imperial Germany." Journal of Intelligence History 6, no. 1 (Summer 2006). [http://www.intelligence-history.org/jih/journal.html]
Doerries, Reinhard R. Prelude to the Easter Rising: Sir Roger Casement in Imperial Germany. London: Frank Cass, 2000.
Grob-Fitzgibbon, Benjamin. Turning Points of the Irish Revolution: The British Government, Intelligence, and the Cost of Indifference, 1912-1921. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Hart, Peter, ed. British Intelligence in Ireland, 1920-21: The Final Reports. Irish Narrative Series, ed. David Fitzpatrick. Cork: Cork University Press, 2002.
From advertisement: "The Irish revolution of 1920-1921 ended in a military and political stalemate, resolved only through the mutual compromise incorporated in the Anglo-Irish Treaty." Historians have long accepted that the Irish won the intelligence war. "This judgement is challenged by the recent release of two confidential self-assessments prepared for the army and the police in 1922." The police report "indicates a marked improvement in operations superintended by ... Sir Ormonde de l'Épée Winter (1875-1962). His report, though self-serving and flawed, provides a uniquely detailed and personal account of Intelligence from the inside. The editor's introduction assesses the purpose, reliability and significance of these reports. Their publication is a significant contribution to the study of Irish revolutionary history."
Lane, Pádraig G. "Government Surveillance of Subversion, 1890-1916." In Laois: History & Society. Interdisciplinary Essays on the History of an Irish County, eds. Pádraig G. Lane and William Nolan, 602-625. Dublin: Geography Publications, 1999.
Marshall, Alan. "Irish Spies and Plotters in Seventeenth-Century Europe." Irish Studies Review 9 (1994): 7-12.
McCoole, Sinéad. No Ordinary Women: Irish Female Activists in the Revolutionary Years 1900-1923. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2003. Dublin: O'Brien Press, 2003.
From advertisement: "Spies, snipers, couriers, gun-runners, medics -- women played a major role in the fight for Ireland's freedom, risking loss of life and family for a cause to which they were totally committed." This work includes the biographies of sixty-five women activists.
McEldowney, J. F. "Legal Aspects of the Irish Secret Service Fund, 1793-1833." Irish Historical Studies 25, no. 98 (1986): 129-137.
McLoughlin, Barry. Left to the Wolves: Irish Victims of Stalinist Terror. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2006.
From publisher: At least three of the victims of Stalin's Great Terror of 1937-1938 were foreign-born Communists of Irish nationality. "This book describes their social background, how and why they entered the semi-clandestine world of Communism and the reasons for their residence in the USSR."
Mullins, Gerry. Dublin Nazi No. 1: The Life of Adolf Mahr. Dublin: Liberties Press, 2007.
From publisher: "In the 1930s, Dr Adolf Mahr was head of the National Museum of Ireland" and "head of the Nazi Party in Ireland.... Under pressure from Irish and British military intelligence, he left for Germany shortly before the outbreak of war in 1939.... He is considered in some circles to have been a spy who used his position at the museum to help prepare Germany's invasion plan of Ireland."
Gibbins, History Ireland (Sep./Oct. 2007), questions the author's ambivalent attitude toward his subject's adherence to National Socialism and anti-Semitism, arguing that Mahr "never appears to have questioned the evidence on which the Party's ideology was based."
O'Donoghue, James. "Dudley Bradstreet: A Tipperary Spy and Adventurer." Tipperary Historical Journal (1992), 174-185.
Period covered: 1711 - 1763.
O'Halpin, Eunan. "Army, Politics and Society in Independent Ireland, 1923-1945." Historical Studies (Irish Conference of Historians) 8 (1993): 158-174.
O'Halpin, Eunan. "British Intelligence in Ireland, 1914-1921." In The Missing Dimension: Governments and Intelligence Communities in the Twentieth Century, eds. Christopher Andrew and David Dilks, 55-77. London: Macmillan, 1984.
O'Halpin, Eunan. Defending Ireland: The Irish State and Its Enemies Since 1922. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.
O'Halpin, Eunan. "External Intelligence and the Civil War." Irish Sword 20 (1997): 267-278.
O'Halpin, Eunan. "Intelligence and Security in Ireland, 1922-45." Intelligence and National Security 5, no. 1 (Jan. 1990): 50-83.
From 1923 to 1938, Ireland's "security priorities were overwhelmingly domestic." As war approached, however, "a new, elaborate and pervasive security system" was required. Security and intelligence cooperation with Britain "was surprisingly extensive at administrative levels even before the war."
O'Halpin, Eunan. "Long Fellow, Long Story: MI5 and de Valera." Irish Studies in International Affairs 14 (2003): 185-203.
O'Halpin, Eunan. "The Secret Service Vote and Ireland, 1868-1922." Irish Historical Studies 23 (1983), 348-353.
O'Halpin, Eunan. "'Weird Prophecies': British Intelligence and Anglo-Irish Relations, 1932-3." In Irish Foreign Policy, 1919-66: From Independence to Internationalism, eds. Michael Kennedy and Joseph Morrison Skelly, 61-73. Dublin: Four Courts, 2000.
O'Halpin, Eunan; and Keith Jeffery. "Ireland in Spy Fiction." Intelligence and National Security 5, no. 4 (Oct. 1990): 92-116.
Sharkey, Sean. "My Role as an Intelligence Officer with the Third Tipperary Brigade (1919-1921)." Tipperary Historical Journal (1998), 95-104.
Weber, Paul. On the Road to Rebellion: The United Irishmen and Hamburg, 1796-1803. Dublin: Four Courts, 1997.
Wiel, Jérôme aan de. "Austria-Hungary, France, Germany and the Irish Crisis from 1899 to the Outbreak of the First World War." Intelligence and National Security 21, no. 2 (Apr. 2006): 237-257.
From abstract: This "article argues that there was a definite 'Irish factor' in the events leading to the outbreak of the First World War, notably in Germany and Austria-Hungary's decision-making process."
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