Defending Ireland The Irish State and Its Enemies since 1922 [Paperback]

The first study to investigate the interlinked problems of domestic security and national defense in Ireland, this book describes the development of the Irish army and police since 1922.

1. The state and civil war, 1921-3
2. The civilianization of internal security, 1923-32
3. Ireland's defence dilemma, 1923-32
4. Internal security and external defence, 1932-9
5. External defence and security, 1939-45
6. Security operations and covert activities, 1939-45
7. Ireland in the post-war world, 1945-69
8. Unresolved questions: defence, security and subversion since 1969
Notes, Bibliography, Index

O'Halpin, an authority on Irish security and intelligence, distills years of research in this comprehensive study of Ireland's defense policy...This book is indispensable for collections on Irish history and politics. --CHOICE

Eunan O'Halpin argues so in this important new book, the first systematic review of Irish internal and external defense policy from 1922 to the present day...[A]lso offers a skilled analysis of defense policy in the postwar years...Scholarly, but always readable, this book will prove extremely useful to researchers and students studying twentieth-century Ireland or to anyone who wishes to understand the hard realities and public illusions that have shaped the Irish state's response to its enemies. --he Historian