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19 - Transnational Connections

Militant Irish Republicans and the World

from Part III - Historical Case Studies in Terrorism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2021

Richard English
Affiliation:
Queen's University Belfast
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Summary

The narrative around contemporary terrorism and political violence has emphasise its transnational character. There has been a tendency to see this dimension of terrorism as something novel, rendering contemporary terrorist threats as more dangerous than those experienced in the past. The idea of globally networked violent actors is frightening, and understandably excites public anxiety. Yet the overwhelming majority of terrorism has tended to be not only domestic, but local, conducted by individuals in the country where they normally reside, usually striking at targets close to their home. Transnational connections do exist, of course, but rather than being the defining feature of some ‘new’ terrorism, they have been a feature of violent political movements since long before 11 September 2001. Indeed, they arguably date back to the emergence of terrorism itself as some phenomenon discernable from other forms of violent contestation. This chapter has two aims. It will assess the importance of transnational links to radical and violent non-state actors for Irish Republicanism. Further, through an analysis of the Irish case study, it aims to contribute to our understanding of such transnational links more generally.

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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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Further Reading

Frampton, M., ‘“Squaring the Circle”: The Foreign Policy of Sinn Féin, 1983–1989’, Irish Political Studies 19/2 (2004)Google Scholar
McGarry, F., ‘“A Land Beyond the Wave”: Transnational Perspectives on Easter 1916’, in Whelehan, N. (ed.), Transnational Perspectives on Modern Irish History (London, Routledge, 2014)Google Scholar
McKinley, M., ‘Of “Alien Influences”: Accounting and Discounting for the International Contacts of the Provisional Irish Republican Army’, Conflict Quarterly 11/3 (1991)Google Scholar
Silvestri, M., ‘The Sinn Féin of India’: Irish Nationalism and the Policing of Revolutionary Terrorism in Bengal’, The Journal of British Studies 39/4 (2000)CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Whelehan, N., The Dynamiters: Irish Nationalism and Political Violence in the Wider World, 1867–1900 (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2012)CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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