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British Spies and Irish Rebels
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Table of Contents

Introduction
Losing Southern Ireland
Alarms, Excursions and Civil War
An International Conspiracy
Security and Sectarianism in Northern Ireland
British Images of Ireland
The Cosgave Years
The de Valera Challenge
England's Back Door
The Irish Fifth Column
Operational Intelligence
Debunking the Fifth Column
Opinion and Propaganda
Leakage of Information
Coming to Terms with Irish Independence
Bibliography
Index

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Melds impressive research and analysis with an entertaining writing style.
*JOURNAL OF IRISH AND SCOTTISH STUDIES*

McMahon's excellent book traces the long path from the intelligence debacle of 1916-1921 to the successful security partnership of World War II. [...] McMahon succeeds admirably not only in illuminating intelligence and security issues, but also the wider trajectory of Anglo-Irish relations over the course of the twentieth century.
*AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW*

Provides a well-written and impressively researched narrative history of British intelligence concerning Ireland between 1916 and 1945. [...] An important contribution to the scholarship of intelligence, and a worthy first volume in the Boydell Press History of British Intelligence series.
*JOURNAL OF BRITISH STUDIES*

McMahon presents a fine account of this tumultuous history in the period of the 20th century's two world wars. [...] The writing is compelling, seamlessly integrating for the reader's delectation the stories of cowards and cads, heroes and buffoons, and smart spies and foolish politicians. Highly recommended.
*CHOICE*

This sober and balanced book is a major contribution not simply to the history of British and Irish intelligence but to all those interested in the Anglo-Irish relationship in all its messy complexity.
*CONTEMPORARY BRITISH HISTORY*

An exemplary study of the strengths and limitations of British intelligence on Ireland from the 1916 Rising to the end of the Second World War. [...] Excellent.
*DUBLIN REVIEW OF BOOKS*

An important book and one that should inspire expansion into other studies. [...] An essential academic study for those interested in the British intelligence war in Ireland from 1916-45.
*CAMDEN NEW JOURNAL*

[A] fascinating new study. [...] McMahon writes lucidly and sensibly on a subject that often attracts fevered treatment, and he makes excellent use of recently released intelligence material in both Irish and British archives.
*THE IRISH TIMES*

This is an engaging and important assessment of a relationship that has many lessons for observers of contemporary Anglo-Irish politics.
*HIGHGATE AND HAMPSTEAD EXPRESS*

Sets a high standard for the rest of the volumes in the series and I can thoroughly recommend it, not just for the light it shines on the work of the British intelligence services but on the wider political and diplomatic world of the period.
*LOBSTER*

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