Michael Collinss Intelligence War

Author : Michael T. Foy
Publisher : Sutton Pub Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780750942683
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Michael Collins's Intelligence War written by Michael T. Foy and published by Sutton Pub Limited. This book was released on 2007-07-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Collins is often thought of as Ireland's lost leader: a man born into a revolutionary environment who became a skilled statesman and military leader. This book looks in at Collins' key role in the Anglo Irish War using primary sources which have not previously been available.

Author : J. B. E. Hittle
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1597975354
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Michael Collins and the Anglo-Irish War written by J. B. E. Hittle and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As leader of the Irish Republican Brotherhood and then the Irish Republican Army (IRA), Michael Collins developed a bold, new strategy to use against the British administration of Ireland in the early twentieth century. His goal was to attack its well-established system of spies and informers, wear down British forces with a sustained guerrilla campaign, and force a political settlement that would lead to a free Irish Republic. Michael Collins and the Anglo-Irish War reveals that the success of the Irish insurgency was not just a measure of Collins’s revolutionary genius, as has often been claimed. British miscalculations, overconfidence, and a failure to mount a sustained professional intelligence effort to neutralize the IRA contributed to Britain’s defeat. Although Britain possessed the world’s most professional secret service, the British intelligence community underwent a politically driven and ill-advised reorganization in early 1919, at the very moment that Collins and the IRA were going on the offensive. Once Collins neutralized the local colonial spy service, the British had no choice but to import professional secret service agents. But Britain’s wholesale reorganization of its domestic counterintelligence capability sidelined its most effective countersubversive agency, MI5, leaving the job of intelligence management in Ireland to Special Branch civilians and a contingent of quickly trained army case officers, neither group being equipped—or inclined—to mount a coordinated intelligence effort against the insurgents. Britain’s appointment of a national intelligence director for home affairs in 1919—just as the Irish revolutionary parliament published its Declaration of Independence—was the decisive factor leading to Britain’s disarray against the IRA. By the time the War Office reorganized its intelligence effort against Collins in mid-1920, it was too late to reverse the ascendancy of the IRA. Michael Collins and the Anglo-Irish War takes a fresh approach to the subject, presenting it as a case study in intelligence management under conditions of a broader counterinsurgency campaign. The lessons learned from this disastrous episode have stark relevance for contemporary national security managers and warfighters currently engaged in the war on terrorism.

Author : Ryle T Dwyer
Publisher : Mercier Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1781170304
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Michael Collins: The Man Who Won The War written by Ryle T Dwyer and published by Mercier Press Ltd. This book was released on 2009-01-21 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this completely revised and updated book, T. Ryle Dwyer, offers a fresh perspective on Collins' activities. With new information about his role in organising the IRB in London in his youth right through to his death in 1922, Dwyer's analysis supports the case for Collins as the chief architect of the Irish victory over the British Empire. Michael Collins co-ordinated the sweeping Sinn Féin election victory of 1918 and put structure on the organisation of the IRA. He was the prototype of the urban terrorist and the architect of the war against the Black and Tans. While many have questioned whether Collins ever fired a shot at an enemy of Ireland, he did order the deaths of people standing in his way, and he even advocated kidnapping a US President.

Author : Maurice Walsh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781848890282
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Defence of Ireland written by Maurice Walsh and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing from Irish intelligence records, This book fills a gap in the history of Irish intelligence and some twists and turns in Anglo-Irish relations.

Author : Gabriel Doherty
Publisher : Mercier Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1856355128
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Michael Collins and the Making of the Irish State written by Gabriel Doherty and published by Mercier Press Ltd. This book was released on 2006 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An evaluation of the contribution made by Michael Collins to the making of the Irish state. A series of specially commissioned essays, written by some of Ireland's leading historians (academic and popular), on the contribution made by Michael Collins to the making of the Irish state. This is a professional evaluation of Michael Collins which brings to light his multi-faceted and complex character. The contributors examine Collins as Minister for Finance, his role in intelligence, his policy towards the north, his career as Commander-in-Chief, the origins of the Civil War, his relationship w.

Author : Gerard Murphy
Publisher : Gill & Macmillan Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1788410424
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great Cover-Up written by Gerard Murphy and published by Gill & Macmillan Ltd. This book was released on 2018-06-08 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why were both sides of the Civil War divide so evasive when it came to the death of Michael Collins? Why were they still trying to effect cover-ups as late as the 1960s? Determined to find the truth despite the trails of deception left by many of the key players, Gerard Murphy, a scientist, looked in detail at the evidence. Previous researchers have tended to concentrate on the reminiscences of survivors. Murphy instead focuses on information that appeared in the immediate wake of the ambush, before attempts could be made to conceal the truth. He also examines newly released material, and has carried out a forensic analysis of the ambush site based on photographic evidence of the aftermath recently discovered in a Dublin attic. These investigations have unearthed significant new evidence, overlooked for almost a century, that seriously questions the version of events currently accepted by historians.

Author : James Gleeson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bloody Sunday written by James Gleeson and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : T. Ryle Dwyer
Publisher : Mercier Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1856354695
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Squad written by T. Ryle Dwyer and published by Mercier Press Ltd. This book was released on 2005 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on recently-released interviews, The Squad throws a considerable amount of new light on the intelligence operations of Michael Collins.

Author : Michael Herman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521566360
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Intelligence Power in Peace and War written by Michael Herman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-10-13 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intelligence services form an important but controversial part of the modern state. Drawing mainly on British and American examples, this book provides an analytic framework for understanding the "intelligence community" and assessing its value. Michael Herman, a former senior British Intelligence officer, describes the various components of intelligence; discusses what intelligence is for; considers issues of accuracy, evaluation and efficiency; and makes recommendations for the future of intelligence in the post-Cold War world.

Author : Joseph McKenna
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476680418
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women in the Struggle for Irish Independence written by Joseph McKenna and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-10-30 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:  Women have too often been written out of history. This is especially true in the fight for Irish independence. The women's struggle was three-fold, beginning with the suffragettes' fight to win the vote. Then came the push for fair pay and working conditions. Binding them together became part of the national struggle, first for home rule, then for the establishment of an Irish Republic. The Easter Rising of 1916 brought them together as soldiers of the Republic. Through the terrible years that followed, they became the conscience of Republicanism. Following independence, they were betrayed by the men they had served alongside. DeValera and the Catholic Church restricted their roles in society--they were to be wives and mothers without a voice. It was not until Ireland's entry into the European community and the self destruction of a corrupt Church that Irish women were acknowledged for what they had achieved.