Joe Cahill

A Life in the IRA

Biography & Memoir, Political, Historical, Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science
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Author: Brendan Anderson, Joe Cahill ISBN: 9781847174284
Publisher: The O'Brien Press Publication: September 14, 2012
Imprint: The O'Brien Press Language: English
Author: Brendan Anderson, Joe Cahill
ISBN: 9781847174284
Publisher: The O'Brien Press
Publication: September 14, 2012
Imprint: The O'Brien Press
Language: English

'I was born in a united Ireland, I want to die in a united Ireland.'

Born in Belfast in 1920, Joe Cahill has been an IRA man motivated by this ambition all his life. IRA activists rarely speak about their lives or their organisation, but here Cahill gives his full and frank story, his viewpoint, his experiences -- from Northern Irish prison cells of the 1940s, on a death sentence, to Washington when the Good Friday Agreement was being negotiated.

He tells of the visit he made to Colonel Gaddafi to arrange for arms and ammunition, and the fateful voyage of the Claudia; Bloody Sunday and the burning of the British Embassy in Dublin; the high-drama helicopter escape of IRA prisoners from Portlaoise Jail.

This is the story of an extraordinary journey, Cahill's own life mirroring the growth, changes and development of the republican movement as a whole through more than sixty years of intense involvement.

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'I was born in a united Ireland, I want to die in a united Ireland.'

Born in Belfast in 1920, Joe Cahill has been an IRA man motivated by this ambition all his life. IRA activists rarely speak about their lives or their organisation, but here Cahill gives his full and frank story, his viewpoint, his experiences -- from Northern Irish prison cells of the 1940s, on a death sentence, to Washington when the Good Friday Agreement was being negotiated.

He tells of the visit he made to Colonel Gaddafi to arrange for arms and ammunition, and the fateful voyage of the Claudia; Bloody Sunday and the burning of the British Embassy in Dublin; the high-drama helicopter escape of IRA prisoners from Portlaoise Jail.

This is the story of an extraordinary journey, Cahill's own life mirroring the growth, changes and development of the republican movement as a whole through more than sixty years of intense involvement.

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