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In Dublin, the War of Irish Independence (1919-1921) was an intense and dirty battle between military intelligence agents. While IRA flying columns fought the British Army and the Black and Tans in the countryside, the fighting in Ireland's capital city pitted the wits of IRA commander Michael Collins against the cloak-and-dagger innovations of British Intelligence chief Colonel Ormonde de l'Epee Winter. Drawing on detailed witness statements of Irish participants and documents and biographies from the British side, this history chronicles the covert war of assassinations, arrests, torture and murder that climaxed in the Bloody Sunday mass assassination of British intelligence officers by IRA squads in November 1920.
List of contents
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Preface
Introduction
1.¿Preparing for War
2.¿British Intelligence in Ireland 1914-1918
3.¿Establishing an Irish Intelligence Service
4.¿Eliminating the G Men
5.¿Special Branch Strikes Back
6.¿Military Intelligence and the Paramilitaries
7.¿Winter Arrives
8.¿Dublin Special Branch-The Murder Gang
9.¿Bloody Sunday, November 21, 1920
10.¿Hardy, King and Igoe
11.¿IRA Active Service Units
12.¿Burning the Custom House
13.¿The Road to Peace
Appendix I-Intelligence Staff and The Squad
Appendix II-Known or Suspected British Agents
Appendix III-Known or Suspected Touts
Appendix IV-British Secret Service Men and Others Assassinated or Wounded on November 21, 1920
Appendix V-Members of G. Division, Dublin Metropolitan Police, Shot and Killed by The Squad
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Joseph McKenna is a retired local studies librarian, with over 30 years' experience working in the Central Library in Birmingham, England. He formerly sat on the City Council's Conservation Advisory Areas Committee.
