Tag: Adams
Irish Republicanism’s Reaganite Wing? NORAID and the Sidelining of Conservative Irish-America
This week’s premier of the RTÉ documentary series, “NORAID: Irish America & the IRA” chronicling the rise and role of diaspora Irish-Americans during the Troubles years offers insight into the ideological machinations of the Provisional movement and more importantly the...
Stakeknife: The Spy Who Made Modern Ireland
Freddie Scappaticci, Stakeknife was, according to the book’s blurb, “the British spy who played a leading role in the British intelligence war against the Provisional IRA.” Stakeknife, along with John Joe McGee, another British plant, infamously ran the IRA’s Nutting...