Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Unavailable
    The Squad: The Intelligence Operations of Michael Collins.
    Unavailable
    The Squad: The Intelligence Operations of Michael Collins.
    Unavailable
    The Squad: The Intelligence Operations of Michael Collins.
    Ebook316 pages5 hours

    The Squad: The Intelligence Operations of Michael Collins.

    By Ryle Dwyer

    3.5/5

    ()

    Currently unavailable

    Currently unavailable

    About this ebook

    In 1919, Michael Collins conceived of a scheme to knock out the eyes and ears of the British Administration at Dublin Castle by undermining and terrorising the police so that the British would react blindly and drive the Irish people into the arms of the Irish Republican Army.

    The Bureau of Military History interviewed those involved in this scheme in the early 1950s with the assurance that the material would not be published in their lifetimes. A few of the contributions were made available by the families of those involved, but the bulk of them have only recently been released.

    This is the first book to make use of those interviews. It makes fascinating, almost unique reading, because they contain first-hand descriptions in which men speaking candidly of their involvement in killing selected people at close range.

    As a result it throws a considerable amount of new light on the activities of the Squad and the intelligence operations of Michael Collins.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMercier Press
    Release dateJul 10, 2005
    ISBN9781856357487
    Unavailable
    The Squad: The Intelligence Operations of Michael Collins.
    Author

    Ryle Dwyer

    Ryle Dwyer is a historian and journalist. He took his PhD at the University of North Texas and lives in County Kerry. He has written many books, notably on the period of the War of Independence and the Civil War, and on Éamon De Valera and Michael Collins. He is also an expert on relations between Ireland and the Allies during the Second World War. His most recent titles with Mercier Press are: I Signed My Death Warrant - Michael Collins and the Treaty, The Squad, Tans, Terror and Troubles: Kerry's Real Fighting Story and an acclaimed biography of Jack Lynch, Nice Fellow.

    Related to The Squad

    Related ebooks

    European History For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Youth Gangs In Postwar Melbourne

      Jun 22, 2018

      The gunshots that rang out across Carlton North and Fitzroy North were from the revolvers of teenage gang members who moved through the suburbs in teams of 50 or more seeking combat. In this era, ‘push’ was the term for a gang, and each push, when mo

      5 min read

    • Article

      ASSASSINATION & EXECUTION

      Aug 3, 2023

      ASSASSINATION & EXECUTION
      3 min read

    • Article

      Your Letters

      Aug 7, 2020

      Your Letters
      5 min read

    • Article

      In Cold Blood

      Aug 2, 2022

      Ronan McGreevy, Great Hatred: The Assassination of Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson MP, Faber & Faber, 2022, 464 pages, $27.95. ISBN 978–0571372805 The one-hundredth anniversary of the assassination of Field Marshal Henry Wilson passed in June 2022. Th

      4 min read

    • Article

      Reporting On The Troubles

      Oct 31, 2019

      Reporting On The Troubles
      8 min read

    • Article

      Gangs of New York

      Feb 23, 2023

      Gangs of New York
      8 min read

    • Article

      Fathers Of The Republic

      Sep 28, 2023

      Fathers Of The Republic
      6 min read

    • Article

      London’s Crime Blitz

      Feb 21, 2023

      London’s Crime Blitz
      11 min read

    • Article

      1920 Bloody Sunday

      Mar 21, 2019

      1920 Bloody Sunday
      3 min read

    • Article

      Winston before The War

      Jun 9, 2022

      Winston before The War
      10 min read

    • Article

      Dear Paul

      Sep 11, 2020

      Dear Paul
      6 min read

    • Article

      Britain's Secret Army

      Jun 11, 2020

      Britain's Secret Army
      8 min read

    • Article

      Dear Paul

      Mar 12, 2021

      We start this month’s edition of ‘Dear Paul’ with a challenge. Daniel (@DanielGenealogy) sent me a birth certificate he found, whilst researching for a friend, and it’s the mother’s name that’s the intriguing part: Julia Walsh, formerly Harrington, f

      10 min read

    • Article

      Q&A

      Oct 17, 2023

      Q&A
      7 min read

    • Article

      'Say Nothing' Is A Timely Warning That Ireland's Old Wounds Are Easily Opened

      Feb 25, 2019

      New Yorker writer Patrick Radden Keefe excels at exposing the past as he tells the story of Jean McConville, a mother of 10 who disappeared after masked men abducted her during Ireland's Troubles.

      3 min read

    • Article

      A Political Soldier

      Jul 7, 2022

      Anyone who confronts the vivid portrait of Sir Henry Wilson (pictured below right) in London’s National Portrait Gallery will probably wonder what he was really like. He himself had reservations about the image, saying it made him look like “an awful

      2 min read

    • Article

      When The Spooks Were Spooked

      Mar 23, 2023

      When The Spooks Were Spooked
      10 min read

    • Article

      The Popish Plot

      Aug 4, 2022

      The Popish Plot
      9 min read

    • Article

      Dear Paul

      Jan 13, 2023

      Back in October I looked at how researching your ancestors’ occupations can help you gain a better understanding of their daily lives, and asked readers to send details of some of the more interesting occupations that you have discovered on your fami

      10 min read

    • Article

      Northern Ireland

      Dec 22, 2022

      Northern Ireland
      3 min read

    • Article

      Is My Partner Related To Charlie Chaplin?

      Jan 11, 2022

      TOM WINTER believes his partner might have a link to an icon of 20th-century cinema Q My partner did a DNA test through Ancestry (ancestry. co.uk/dna), and we uploaded the results onto the MyHeritage site (myheritage.com). The closest three matches

      5 min read

    • Article

      Crime On The Home Front

      Nov 26, 2020

      Crime On The Home Front
      6 min read

    • Article

      TV, FILM & RADIO

      Oct 28, 2021

      TV, FILM & RADIO
      5 min read

    • Article

      Letters

      Dec 14, 2021

      Letters
      6 min read

    Reviews for The Squad

    3.5/5

    4 ratings1 review

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

    • 4/5
      A matter of summary of the actions of the squad. Quite absorbing and a very good read