TY - BOOK ID - 43587843 TI - Defying the IRA? : intimidation, coercion, and communities during the Irish Revolution PY - 2016 SN - 9781781383544 1781383545 1781382972 9781781382974 1786944014 PB - Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Violence. KW - Intimidation. KW - Violence KW - Intimidation KW - History KW - Irish Republican Army KW - Irish Republican Army. KW - History. KW - 1900-1999 KW - Irland KW - Ireland. KW - Fear KW - Motivation (Psychology) KW - Threat (Psychology) KW - Harassment KW - Violent behavior KW - Social psychology KW - Armata repubblicana irlandese KW - Armée républicaine irlandaise KW - I.R.A. KW - IRA KW - Official IRA KW - Oglaig na h-Éireann KW - Republican Army KW - Armata Repubblicana Irlandese KW - Armée Républicaine Irlandaise KW - Oglaig na h-Eireann KW - Irisch-Republikanische Armee KW - Nordirland KW - 1919 KW - -Irish Volunteers KW - Provisional IRA KW - Airlann KW - Airurando KW - Éire KW - Irish Republic KW - Irlanda KW - Irlande KW - Irlanti KW - Írország KW - Poblacht na hÉireann KW - Republic of Ireland KW - Staat Irland KW - Poblacht na h'Eireann KW - Republik Irland KW - Saorstát Éireann KW - Irish Free State KW - Ireland KW - Eire KW - Insel KW - Iren KW - -Armata repubblicana irlandese KW - Irish Volunteers KW - Éire KW - Saorstát Éireann KW - アイルランド KW - -History. KW - Belfast KW - Boycott KW - Catholic Church KW - Dáil Éireann KW - Impact Wrestling KW - Protestantism KW - Royal Irish Constabulary KW - ireland UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:43587843 AB - This book examines the grass-roots relationship between the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and the civilian population during the Irish Revolution. It is primarily concerned with the attempts of the militant revolutionaries to discourage, stifle, and punish dissent among the local populations in which they operated, and the actions or inactions by which dissent was expressed or implied.Focusing on the period of guerilla war against British rule from c. 1917 to 1922, it uncovers the acts of 'everyday' violence, threat, and harm that characterized much of the revolutionary activity of this period. Moving away from the ambushes and assassinations that have dominated much of the discourse on the revolution, the book explores low-level violent and non-violent agitation in the Irish town or parish. The opening chapter treats the IRA's challenge to the British state through the campaign against servants of the Crown - policemen, magistrates, civil servants, and others - and IRA participation in local government and the republican counter-state. The book then explores the nature of civilian defiance and IRA punishment in communities across the island before turning its attention specifically to the year that followed the 'Truce' of July 1921.This study argues that civilians rarely operated at either extreme of a spectrum of support but, rather, in a large and fluid middle ground. Behaviour was rooted in local circumstances, and influenced by local fears, suspicions, and rivalries. IRA punishment was similarly dictated by community conditions and usually suited to the nature of the perceived defiance. Overall, violence and intimidation in Ireland was persistent, but, by some contemporary standards, relatively restrained. ER -