Ridley Michael Collins and the Financing of Violent Political Struggle

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-315-44491-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 222 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Modern History

Michael Collins was a pivotal figure in the Irish struggle for independence and his legacy has resonated ever since. Whilst Collins’ role as a guerrilla leader and intelligence operative is well documented, his actions as the clandestine Irish government Minister of Finance have been less studied. The book analyses how funds were raised and transferred in order that the IRA could initiate and sustain the military struggle, and lay the financial foundations of an Irish state.

Nicholas Ridley examines the legacy of these actions by comparing Collins’ modus operandi for raising and transferring clandestine funds to those of more modern groups engaged in political violence, as well as the laying of foundations for Irish financial and fiscal regulation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ridley, Nicholas

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Terrorismus, Religiöser Fundamentalismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART I – Violent Undercurrents pre-1914 Europe

- Violence in pre-1914 Europe

- Ireland - peaceful, patient and hopeful

PART II – Michael Collins and the struggle for Irish independence

- Cork, London, Dublin - and 1916 debacle

- Collins reorganises the Volunteers…

- And de Valera enlists America

- The Anglo-Irish War 1919-1921

- Collins’ Intelligence War

- Treaty and Civil War

PART III – The Sinews of War

- Preparing in London, active in Dublin

- Filling the war chest - the National Loan

- Funds from America, funds in America

- Collins, Minister of Finance

- The Anglo-Irish Treaty- Ireland’s fiscal autonomy

- The North

- The Sinews of Civil War and the Republicans hamstrung

PART IV – Later Political Violence and Insurgency and their Financing

PART V – Michael Collins





Appendix I - Historians and de Valera’s US funds

Appendix II – Collins and Connelly

Bibliography and Works Consulted

Über Autor(innen)

Nicholas Ridley is Senior Lecturer in Policing and Security at London Metropolitan University. He has previously worked as an Intelligence Analyst at New Scotland Yard, Criminal Intelligence Department and Anti-Terrorist Unit and at Europol.He has been a trainer in intelligence and anti-terrorism for police forces in Africa, and has lectured on combating terrorist financing on courses at NATO Centre of Excellence – Defence against Terrorism.