Inside the IRA

Inside the IRA triumphs in its attempts to provide a consistent narrative and analysis of what is a complex and often controversial era of history … Sanders’ work currently stands alone in this field and is a testament to thorough scholarship and cogent historical reasoning. * British Politics and Policy at LSE Blog *Inside the IRA triumphs in its attempts to provide a consistent narrative and analysis of what is a complex and often controversial era of history … Sanders’ work currently stands alone in this field and is a testament to thorough scholarship and cogent historical reasoning. * British Politics and Policy at LSE Blog *A one-stop-shop for those who want a comprehensive overview of the republican family … there is still a place for books that take the longer and broader view, and Sanders makes a solid contribution to the genre. – Henry Patterson, University of Ulster * Irish Political Review *A one-stop-shop for those who want a comprehensive overview of the republican family … there is still a place for books that take the longer and broader view, and Sanders makes a solid contribution to the genre. – Henry Patterson, University of Ulster * Irish Political Studies *Inside the IRA: Dissident Republicans and the War for Legitimacy challenges Irish historians to seek both an internal analysis and an external observation to frame the pattern of Irish republican factionalisation … The sweeping rigor of this book provocatively offers a frank discussion of the controversial concept of republican revisionism that is based upon the author’s attentive scholarship. – Margaret Keiley-Listermann, Georgia Gwinnett College * The Journal of British Studies *Inside the IRA: Dissident Republicans and the War for Legitimacy challenges Irish historians to seek both an internal analysis and an external observation to frame the pattern of Irish republican factionalisation … The sweeping rigor of this book provocatively offers a frank discussion of the controversial concept of republican revisionism that is based upon the author’s attentive scholarship. – Margaret Keiley-Listermann, Georgia Gwinnett College * The Journal of British Studies *A compelling study of one of the most important themes in modern Irish politics. The question of schism and re-born militancy remains potent in contemporary Irish republicanism, and Sanders’ historically informed analysis represents a significant, illuminating interpretation. – Richard English, author of Armed Struggle: The History of the IRAA compelling study of one of the most important themes in modern Irish politics. The question of schism and re-born militancy remains potent in contemporary Irish republicanism, and Sanders’ historically informed analysis represents a significant, illuminating interpretation. – Richard English, author of Armed Struggle: The History of the IRA

Andrew Sanders is John Moore Newman Research Fellow, UCD Clinton Institute for American Studies at University College Dublin. He is the author of Inside the IRA: Dissident Republicans and the War for Legitimacy (Edinburgh University Press, 2011)