An Alien Ideology
An Alien Ideology An 'Irish Cuba' - on Britain's doorstep? The Dublin authorities did not allow the Irish state's non-aligned status to prevent them joining the West's crusade against communism. This…
Specifikacia An Alien Ideology
An Alien Ideology
An 'Irish Cuba' - on Britain's doorstep? The Dublin authorities did not allow the Irish state's non-aligned status to prevent them joining the West's crusade against communism. This book studies perceptions of the Soviets' influence over Irish revolutionaries during the Cold War.
These officials believed Irish communists were directed by the British communist party, the CPGB.If communists in Belfast and Dublin were too isolated to pose a threat in either Irish jurisdiction, the republican movement was a different matter. Leading officials, such as Colonel Dan Bryan in G2, the Irish army intelligence directorate, argued that Ireland should assist the NATO powers. The authorities, north and south, saw that a communist-influenced IRA had potential appeal.
This Cold War nightmare arrived with the civil rights agitation in Northern Ireland in the 1960s.Did the left-wing