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Contents ........................................................................................................................................... i Illustrations..................................................................................................................................... iii Introduction ................................................................................................................................. 1 “A SUSPENSION OF OFFENSIVE OPERATIONS”: 1922-26 Harassed by the enemy and in need of rest ............................................................................. 4 Suspending operations ..............................................................................................................10 Joe McKelvey’s funeral .............................................................................................................18 WAITING FOR DE VALERA, 1926-37 Internment ..................................................................................................................................23 Ulster No 1 Area .................................................................. Error! Bookmark not defined. The de Valera split ............................................................... Error! Bookmark not defined. The Fianna Éireann project ................................................ Error! Bookmark not defined. Rifle raids ............................................................................... Error! Bookmark not defined. We have sometimes exchanged shots ............................... Error! Bookmark not defined. The Outdoor Relief Riots ................................................... Error! Bookmark not defined. The 1933 rail strike ............................................................... Error! Bookmark not defined. Dan Turley and Davy Matthews ........................................ Error! Bookmark not defined. Republican Congress ........................................................... Error! Bookmark not defined. Personal liberty ..................................................................... Error! Bookmark not defined. July, 1935 ............................................................................... Error! Bookmark not defined. They’ll have the whole crowd of us in jail ........................ Error! Bookmark not defined. Tony Lavery’s court-martial ................................................ Error! Bookmark not defined. The ginger group .................................................................. Error! Bookmark not defined. THE ‘SECOND CIVIL WAR’, 1938-46 The English campaign ......................................................... Error! Bookmark not defined. Internment (again) ................................................................ Error! Bookmark not defined. Agitating for a northern campaign....................................................................................... 110 The Belfast Battalion in Dublin ........................................................................................... 118 The Belfast takeover of G.H.Q. ........................................................................................... 131 G.H.Q. comes to Belfast ....................................................................................................... 136 Cawnpore Street ..................................................................................................................... 143 1943 ........................................................................................ Error! Bookmark not defined. The prisons ............................................................................ Error! Bookmark not defined.

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Rocky...................................................................................... Error! Bookmark not defined. Preserving the spirit ............................................................. Error! Bookmark not defined. RESURGENCE, 1948-61 Rebuilding .............................................................................. Error! Bookmark not defined. Hegemony ............................................................................. Error! Bookmark not defined. The border campaign ............................................................................................................. 191 ‘Operation Harvest’................................................................................................................ 195 “NOT FASCISTS, NOR COMMUNISTS”, 1961-69 Rebuilding (again) ................................................................................................................... 202 Billy McMillan ......................................................................................................................... 208 1966 ........................................................................................ Error! Bookmark not defined. The new departure ............................................................... Error! Bookmark not defined. August 1969 .......................................................................... Error! Bookmark not defined. Split ......................................................................................... Error! Bookmark not defined. epilogue .................................................................................. Error! Bookmark not defined. Sources and bibliography ............................................................................................................. 237 Index .......................................................................................................................................... 240

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Page 17: Top: The flag, emblazoned with I.R. (Irish Republic) used on Joe McKelvey’s coffin during the reburial in Belfast in 1924 (now in Irish Republican History Museum). Bottom: Joe McKelvey GAA club, 1925-26 with some names suggested (after Quinn 1999). Page 26: Top left: Hugh Corvin (Irish Press, 1970); top right: Dan Turley (Danny Turley); bottom left: Bridie Dolan (An Phoblacht, 22 nd February 1975); bottom right: Jimmy Steele (1940). Page 54: Top: Republican election rally, 1933 (Irish Press, 28 th November 1933). Bottom: R.U.C. guard the gates of Milltown cemetery as republican 1916 commemoration kneels on the road outside (Irish Independent, 3 rd April 1934). Page 73: Map of north Belfast showing limits of curfewed district in 1935 (marked in black line). Page 94: Top left: Charlie McGlade (Quinn 1999); top right: Sean McCaughey (Quinn 1999); bottom left: Hugh McAteer (R.U.C. wanted poster, 1943); bottom right: Chris McLoughlin (courtesy of Chris McLoughlin Jr). Page 91: Top: Frank Moyna with 200 armed R.U.C. men carrying out evictions in Ardoyne (Irish Press, 17 th February 1937). Bottom: The after effects of the 1938 bombing of the republican plot at Milltown by the ‘Ginger Group’ within the Battalion (Irish Independent, 12 th March 1938). Page 108: Newspapers: An Síol (1933-1938), Republican News (1941-1945), Faoi Glas (hand drawn in prisons, 1940s, see Ó hUid 1960), Page 134: I.R.A. Memo, from Chief of Staff to Director of Publicity, Northern Command, 13 th June 1942 (P.R.O.N.I.). Page 141: Top left: Harry White (Quinn 1999); top right: Liam Burke (MacEoin 1997); bottom left: Tom Williams (McVeigh 1999); bottom right: Chrissie Dolan (An Phoblacht, 22 nd February 1975). Page 151: Map of curfewed district (lower Falls, Divis, Cullingtree Road, Grosvenor Road), 1942. Page 160: Top: 1942 Special Manifesto; Bottom: Northern Command memo (P.R.O.N.I.). Page 174: Top left: John Graham (P.R.O.N.I.); top right: Turlach Ó hUid (Ó hUid 1960); bottom left: Madge Burns (McVeigh 1999); bottom right: David Fleming (Kerryman, 4 th May 1946). Page 185: Republican newspapers: Resurgent Ulster (1951-1955), occasionally as Ulaidh Ag Aiséirghe. Republican newspapers, Glór Uladh (1955-56). Page 201: Top: 1962 picket of Crumlin Road over continued detention of political prisoners with Harry Diamond at the front followed by Sean Caughey, Jim O’Kane and Gerry Fitt. Page 207: Top left: Joe Cahill; top right: Billy McKee (An Phoblacht, 29 th October 1973); bottom left: Jim Sullivan; bottom right: Billy McMillan (both United Irishman, May 1975). Page 229: Map showing location of barricades in Falls Road, August 1969 (United Irishman, September 1969).

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