A Broad Church 2: The Provisional IRA in the Republic of Ireland, 1980-1989

In this fascinating sequel to the ground-breaking publication of Broad Church in 2019, A Broad Church 2 reveals the true history of the Provisional Republican movement in the south of Ireland in the cataclysmic decade of the 1980s. This period saw a sea-change in the movement, with the political wing increasingly coming to fore of the republican struggle. This led to a rethink on the movement’ s policy of abstentionism both within the military and political movements, culminating in the his...