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Autore |
Ellison Graham |
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The crowned harp : policing Northern Ireland / / Graham Ellison and Jim Smyth |
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London ; Sterling, Va., : Pluto Press, 2000 |
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1-84964-032-7 |
0-585-42582-5 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (224 p.) |
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Collana |
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Contemporary Irish studies |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Police - Northern Ireland |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [196]-209) and index. |
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Policing Nineteenth-century Ireland: Setting the Parameters -- Policing Class Society -- Was Ireland Different? -- Order and Control : the Policing Solution -- Policing and Legitimacy in Nineteenth- century Ireland -- 2. Policing After Partition: Constructing the Security Apparatus -- Establishing the RUC -- Organisation, Recruitment and Composition of the RUC -- Powers and Responsibilities -- The Ulster Special Constabulary -- Institutionalising Division -- 3. Policing under Stormont -- Normal Policing? -- A Decentralised Power Structure -- 'Community policing' under the Stormont regime? -- After 1945: Prelude to Crisis -- 4. The Impact of Civil Rights on Policing: Collapse and Failed Reform -- The Civil Rights Campaign -- Reform in a Vacuum: The Hunt Report -- Hunt: Failed Reform? -- 5. Criminalisation and Normalisation: The Counter-Insurgency Solution -- Introduction -- Suppressing Dissent: the Colonial War Model -- The Interregnum: 1972-75 -- The RUC and the Ulster Workers Strike -- Policing after the UWC Strike -- 6. Legitimacy, Counter-Insurgency and Policing: The Legacy of the 1970s -- Criminalisation, Interrogation and the Bennett Repor -- Policing the Hunger Strikes -- The Consolidation of Police Primacy -- Telling Tales: the Supergrass Years -- 7. Shooting to Kill? -- Background -- Undercover Operations and the RUC -- The Role of RUC Special Branch -- A Shoot-to-kill Policy? -- 8. Collusion and Death Squads -- Death Squads and Counter- insurgency -- The UDR and Collusion -- The |
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British Army and the Use of Death Squads -- The Case of Brian Nelson and the FRU -- The Role of the RUC -- 9. Symbolism, Surveys and Police Legitimacy -- Policing as Cultural Category -- Public Attitudinal Surveys and the Manufacture of Consent -- The Under-representation of Certain For ms of Opinion. |
Conducting Opinion Poll Surveys in a Divided Society -- The Language of Surveys -- Reading the Survey Results: a Heretical View -- 'There is no public support for reforming the RUC' -- 'There is a broad spectrum of approval for the RUC's handling of ordinary crime' -- 'The RUC has a base of hidden support' -- 'The cultural symbolism of the RUC is an issue that Catholics do not feel strongly about' -- Conclusions -- 10. Epilogue: The Patten Report on the RUC -- The Public Meetings -- Accountability -- Cover Operations and Demilitarisation -- Composition -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- Bibliography -- Index -- accountability -- xix -- 70-1 -- 184 -- 185-6 -- 189 -- Act of Union [1801] 8 -- Adams, Gerry 102 -- agrarian unrest -- 18th-19th centuries 5-6 -- 18th-19th centuries 9 -- 18th-19th centuries 12 -- repression by Irish Constabulary, 14-15 -- agricultural reform 5-6 -- alienation 152 -- Alliance Party -- 87 -- 160 -- ambushes -- 121-2 -- SAS, 117-18 -- Special Branch, 127 -- American War of Independence 6 -- Amnesty International -- 135 -- and collusion inquiry, 143 -- investigation [ 1975] 80 -- Report [ 1978] 95-7 -- Anglicisation -- 15 -- 16 -- Anglo-Irish Treaty [1922] 18 -- Anti-Partition League 43-4 -- Atkins, Humphrey, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland 102 -- B Specials -- 11 -- 20 -- 21 -- 25-6 -- 56 -- and UDR, 138 -- in reserve, 29 -- in reserve, 30 -- barracks 21-2 -- Bates, Dawson -- 19 -- 22 -- Belfast -- 21 -- discrimination in, 47 -- RUC and USC organisation, 27 -- Belfast News Letter, anti-nationalist campaign 43 -- Bennett Report [1979] -- 96-7 -- 111 -- 127 -- 133 -- Bessbrook Support Unit [1977] 90 -- Birmingham, bombings [1974] 110 -- Black, Christopher, supergrass 111 -- bombing campaigns, England. |
94 -- 110 -- Bourn, John, Committee proposals 82-4 -- Boyle, John 107 -- Bradley, Francis 125 -- British Army -- xiv -- 187 -- and policy of police primacy, 95 -- and policy of police primacy, 104-10 -- and use of death-squads, 141-3 -- andUDR, 140 -- colonial war model for, 65 -- colonial war model for, 73-8 -- counter-insurgency experience, 136-7 -- deployment [ 62-3 -- direct confrontation policy, 74-5 -- FRU [Force Research Unit], 124 -- FRU [Force Research Unit], 143-4 -- FRU [Force Research Unit], 145 -- FRU [Force Research Unit], 146 -- in Ulster [from 20 -- in Ulster [from 34 -- interrogation, 70 -- Kitson's strategy, 75-8 -- operational autonomy, 149 -- opposition to policing role, 10 -- relations with nationalist community, 63 -- relations with RUC Special Branch, 105 -- relations with RUC Special Branch, 145-6 -- relegation to role of 'military aid to civil power' [ 84 -- under control of Stormont government, 63 -- under control of Stormont government, 74-5 -- undercover units, 106 -- undercover units, 124 -- undercover units, 187 -- use of Psychological Operations [Psyops], 77 -- British government -- and Stormont parliament, 55 -- and cost of policing Ireland, 29 -- decision to deploy Army, 62-3 -- Direct Rule, 70 -- Direct Rule, 76 -- Direct Rule, 78-84 -- failure to reform Northern Ireland, 72-3 -- reports on policing [ 63-70 -- British government in Ireland [Dublin Castle] -- attitude to Yeomanry, 10 -- perception of unrest [ 9-10 -- British Irish Rights Watch, on collusion 135 -- Brookeborough, Sir Basil Brooke, Viscount -- 35 -- 43 -- militia, 25 -- militia, 34 -- Burns, Sean -- 118 -- 119 -- Burntollet Bridge ambush [1969] -- 44 -- 58 -- |
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Callaghan, James, Prime Minister 136 -- Cameron Commission, Report [1969] -- 61 -- 63 -- capital punishment, 'Bloody Code' 1-2 -- Carroll, Roddy 121. |
Carver, Field Marshal Lord 105 -- Castlereagh, interrogation centre 80 -- Castlereagh, Lord 12-13 -- casualties -- civilian, 76 -- from plastic bullets, 116 -- IRA volunteers, 117 -- security forces, 76 -- security forces, 117 -- security forces, 178 -- Catholic Church -- and hunger strikes, 102 -- in 19th-century Ireland 3 -- Catholic emancipation 12 -- Catholic population -- alienation of, xvii -- alienation of, 9 -- alienation of, 153-4 -- and Patten Report public meetings, 183-4 -- and support for RUC [disputed], xviii, 150-1 -- and support for RUC [disputed], xviii, 160-3 -- and support for RUC [disputed], xviii, 170-4 -- and support for RUC [disputed], xviii, 181-2 -- and public attitudes surveys, 160-2 -- development of identity, xvi, 54 -- discrimination against, 47-50 -- dissent suppressed, 24 -- dissent suppressed, 30 -- dissent suppressed, 31 -- dissent suppressed, 33 -- dissent suppressed, 41-3 -- middle class withdrawal from public office, 76 -- middle class, 6 -- middle class, 9 -- middle class, 14 -- need for reform ofRUC, 165-6 -- need for reform ofRUC, 165 -- perception of RUC, 168-9 -- perception of RUC, 168 -- RUC stereotyping, 42 -- support for IRA, 103-4 -- view of RUC's ordinary policing, 169-70 -- view of RUC's ordinary policing, 170 -- view of Yeomanry, 11 -- Catholics -- as members of Irish Constabulary, 13 -- as members of Irish Constabulary, 15 -- in RUCR [support for law], 174-5 -- in UDR, 73 -- in UDR, 138 -- in USC, 28 -- quota in RUC, 19-21 -- quota in RUC, 22-3 -- quota in RUC, 172-3 -- Chichester-Clark, J., Prime Minister 72 -- Churchill, Winston 29 -- CID -- and criminal investigations, 125-8 -- computer systems, 84 -- computer systems, 187 -- relations with Special Branch, 124 -- relations with Special Branch, 125-7 -- restructured, 84. |
Citizen's Defence Force [Fermanagh] 25 -- Civil Authorities [Special Powers] Bill [ -- Civil Authorities [Special Powers] Bill [ 23-4 -- Civil Authorities [Special Powers] Bill [ 31 -- 76 -- Civil Rights Movement -- xvi-xvii -- 53 -- 57 -- equated with IRA, 59-60 -- radicalisation of, 58-9 -- RUC and, 50 -- class -- xvi -- 37 -- 161-2 -- Collins, Michael 19 -- collusion -- formal and informal, 134 -- reports on, 135 -- reports on, 143 -- reports on, 144 -- RUC and, 146-8 -- Stevens Inquiry, 134 -- Stevens Inquiry, 142-3 -- UDR and, 138-41 -- with UWC strikers, 88 -- colonial government -- and nature of policing, 36-7 -- and nature of policing, 38-9 -- and nature of policing, 86 -- counter-insurgency role of Army, 65 -- counter-insurgency role of Army, 73-8 -- Committee for the Administration of Justice 135 -- Community Relations Branch [RUC] -- 86-7 -- 167 -- Community Relations Commission 72-3 -- community relations, with Catholics/nationalists -- 33 -- 41 -- 172-3 -- Compton, Sir Edmund, Report [1971] 70 -- confessions -- 92 -- 99 -- consent, policing by -- xix -- 33 -- 64 -- 86 -- 184 -- 185 -- 189 -- Constabulary Act [1922] 20 -- counter-insurgency -- and death-squads, 135-8 -- colonial war model for Army, 65 -- effect of measures on IRA, 92-3 -- Kitson's strategy, 75-8 -- RUC's role in, xv -- RUC's role in 85 -- RUC's role in, 91 -- RUC's role in, 177 -- tactics, 148 -- Craig, Sir James, NI Prime Minister -- 24 -- 29 -- and USC, 25 -- and quotas for Catholic membership of RUC, 20-1 -- Crawford, Lt. Colonel, command of USC 26 -- Creasey, General Timothy -- 104 -- 105 -- 109 -- 116 -- crime, low levels of normal [19th cent] -- 5 -- 9 -- Criminal Bar Association of Northern Ireland 114 -- criminalisation -- and political status of prisoners, 99-100 -- xvi -- 80 -- 81-2 -- 85-6. |
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cultural awareness programmes 175-6. |
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