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Chargement... The Arms Crisis of 1970: The Plot that Never Waspar Michael Heney
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. This book derives from Heney's detailed PhD research. Clearly a sceptic of the conventional narrative that Lynch saved the country from a plot and a potential coup he delves deeper and demonstrates clear instances where Attorney General Condon, then Minister of Defence Cronin and even Cosgrave in removing Gibbons' name from his list of Arms Trial suspects misled the Dáil and subsequent Committees. Heney also demonstrates that Berry became extremely suspicious of Lynch during this whole period who had information much sooner than the sackings and only acted when forced by Cosgrave. Rewarding Gibbons for committing, in effect perjury, is a strange sort of political promotion. In my personal opinion the only two who emerge with any dignity from this period are Captain Kelly and Colonel Hefferon who were both badly maligned as a result in political and media circles. ( ) Very good. Based on an examination of documents some of which were not released until 2001. The result of the arms trial - not guilty - always implied that the jury thought that the attempted importation had been legal. This book seems to establish that, despite Blaney's irredentist talk, he and Haughey were not a group acting against government policy, but Jack Lynch not only knew what they were up to but agreed with it, and it was only when the secret was leaked to Liam Cosgrave that Lynch, to save himself, sacrificed Haughey and Blaney and the others. Gibbons, as appeared in the trial, was as much implicated as the others, but Lynch's strategy of disclaiming all responsibility required a pretence that Gibbons had not known. In other words, Irish democracy had not been under threat. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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The number one Irish Timesbestseller. 'An original and textured history of one of the most controversial and misunderstood episodes of modern Irish history' Diarmaid Ferriter. The arms crisis of 1970 came about when two Irish cabinet ministers, Charles Haughey and Neil Blaney, alongside an army officer and other figures, were accused by Taoiseach Jack Lynch of smuggling arms to the IRA in Northern Ireland. The criminal prosecution that followed, the Arms Trial, was a cause célèbre at the time; while it resulted in the acquittal of all the accused, the political crisis it generated was one of the major events of late twentieth-century Irish history. In the fifty years since, myth and controversy has surrounded the trial and its aftermath. Was the country really on the brink of a bloody civil war involving North and South? Did the two Ministers sacked by Lynch help generate the bloody campaign of the Provisional IRA - or were they set up by the Taoiseach as fall guys for an arms plot that was unofficially authorized but always deniable by Lynch? Was there, as is often claimed, a kind of coup in preparation that Lynch's prompt action foiled? A great deal of astonishing new evidence has been uncovered by Michael Heney in his research for this book, raising serious questions about Lynch and his relationship with future Taoiseach Charles Haughey. The book also contains the first comprehensive investigation into how the arms trial prosecution was mounted, and how the jury came to their verdict of acquittal. Heney's meticulous scholarship challenges much of the conventional wisdom about these sensational events. The Arms Crisis of 1970is a major contribution to our understanding of a pivotal moment in postwar Irish history. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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