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Anthony McIntyre
Former IRA volunteer and ex-prisoner, spent 18 years in Long Kesh, 4 years on the blanket and no-wash/no work protests which led to the hunger strikes of the 80s. Completed PhD at Queens upon release from prison. Left the Republican Movement at the endorsement of the Good Friday Agreement, and went on to become a journalist. Co-founder of The Blanket, an online magazine that critically analyzed the Irish peace process.
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Publications
- * A Structural Analysis of Modern Irish Republicanism: 1969-1973, PhD Thesis, Queen's, (1999).
- * Modern Irish Republicanism and the Belfast Agreement: Chickens Coming Home to Roost, or Turkeys Celebrating Christmas? in Aspects of the Belfast Agreement, (2001).
- * Provisional Republicanism - Internal Politics, Inequities and Modes of Repression in Republicanism in Modern Ireland, (2003).
- * Modern Irish Republicanism: The Product of British State Strategies, 1995, (reprint), in Irish Political Studies Reader: Key Contributions, (2007).
- * Of Myths and Men: Dissent within Republicanism and Loyalism, Transforming the Peace Process in Northern Ireland: From Terrorism to Democratic Politics, (2008).
- * Chuckle Ar La, Irish Review - Special Issue on Belfast Agreement, (2008).
- * Good Friday: The Death of Irish Republicanism, (2008)
Ephemera
- 2000: The republican debate: GFA a victory or defeat? (Jack Holland, Irish Echo)
- 2002: Time has run out for an armed IRA (The Observer)
- 2004: Padraic Paisley (The Blanket)
- 2005: The IRA Is Morphing Into the ‘Rafia’ (LA Times)
- 2006: The Blanket & "Manifesto: Together Facing the New Totalitarianism"
- 2006: Freedom of Speech (The Blanket)
- 2006: ‘The Blanket’ and the Cartoon Controversy: Anthony McIntyre Interviewed (Martyn Frampton, Henry Jackson Society)
- 2006: An honour to have been part of Blanket protest (Irish News)
- 2006: The Price of Our Memory (Speech given at the Annual H-Block Hunger Strike Commemoration)
Good Friday
Good Friday, The Death of Irish Republicanism is available at these online outlets:Ausubo Press;
Amazon.com;
Amazon.co.uk;
Barnes and Noble;
Borders.com;
Small Press Distribution.
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