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Автор: Ruán O’Donnell
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Volunteer Force: Illegal Loyalist paramilitary organization

      Uxbridge Eight: An IRA unit in London

      Verbals: Interview notes concocted by police (aka ‘verballed’ and ‘verballing’)

      Visiting Order: Document authorizing prison visits

      Volunteer: Member of the IRA or INLA

      Walton: Liverpool prison

      Westminster: British imperial parliament in London; House of Commons/ House of Lords

      Wing: Section of a prison

      Winson Green: Birmingham prison

      Young Prisoner: Prisoner under 21 years of age

      Introduction

      Armed IRA activity in Britain was confined by tradition and modus operandi to the territory of England where analogous forms of counter-insurgency were rarely, if ever, applicable. Explosions and shootings in England provided greater publicity and international reportage than the far more frequent and deadly attacks in the North of Ireland. This incentivised the Republican Movement to provide the logistics necessary to underwrite hazardous activity in England. If the highly trained British Military reinforcements deployed to the North of Ireland in August 1969 could not defeat the IRA, it was equally clear in 1978 that republicans waging unilateral and illegal ‘armed struggle’ would not triumph by the intensity of their insurgency alone. ‘Operation Banner’ proved to be the longest and one of the least decisive campaigns in the history of the British Army, a professional North Atlantic Treaty Organization constituent that had waged wars across the globe. In seeking to widen the political discussion, Adams addressed the fluctuating republican campaign in England from various perspectives:

      The Dispersal System