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Barry Flynn

    Soldiers of Folly
    The Little Book of Antrim
    • Full of fascinating facts and stories, this new paperback edition can be dipped into time and again to discover something new about County Antrim.

      The Little Book of Antrim
    • Soldiers of Folly

      The IRA Border Campaign 1956-1962

      • 214 Seiten
      • 8 Lesestunden

      The Border Campaign was an ambitious plan to use the tactics of Flying Columns in the Irish War of Independence. This account of the campaign, immortalized in Dominic Behan's ballad The Patriot Game, outlines the origins, planning, and phases of the conflict, and how it was wrapped in outdated notions of republican romanticism. The campaign was to wage a guerrilla war, make Northern Ireland ungovernable and force a British withdrawal. It was an abject failure. The IRA received little support from Northern nationalists, while governments north and south introduced internment.

      Soldiers of Folly