Prologue; 1. The Meaning of August 1969: Calibrating the Standard Republican Narrative; 2. Blood Sacrifice and Destiny: Republican Metaphysics and the IRA's Armed Struggle; 3. Republicanism's Holy Grail: 'One Nation United, Gaelic, and Free'; 4. Permission to Kill: Just War Theory and the IRA's Armed Struggle; 5. 'Pointless Heartbreak Unrepaid': Consequentialism and the IRA's Armed Struggle; 6. Violating the Inviolable: Human Rights and the IRA's Armed Struggle; 7. 'Crime is Crime is Crime': British Counter-Terrorism in Northern Ireland; 8. 'When the Law Makers are the Law Breakers': State Terrorism; Epilogue; References; Endnotes; Index.
Timothy Shanahan is Professor of Philosophy at Loyola Marymount University, CA. He is author of Reason and Insight: Western and Eastern Perspectives on the Pursuit of Moral Wisdom (2003) and The Evolution of Darwinism: Selection, Adaptation and Progress in Evolutionary Biology (2004), and editor of Philosophy 9/11: Thinking about the War on Terrorism (2005).
'By far the most cogent critical analysis of the Irish Republican movement I have read, written from a position as close to impartiality as we are likely to get.' -- Ian McBride, King's College London 'By far the most cogent critical analysis of the Irish Republican movement I have read, written from a position as close to impartiality as we are likely to get.'
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