Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Plates vi
4. Acknowledgements vii
5. Prologue 1
6. 1. The Meaning of August 1969: Calibrating the Standard Republican Narrative 11
7. 2. Blood Sacrifice and Destiny: Republican Metaphysics and the IRA’s Armed Struggle 40
8. 3. Republicanism’s Holy Grail: ‘One Nation United, Gaelic and Free’ 66
9. 4. Permission to Kill: Just War Theory and the IRA’s Armed Struggle 92
10. 5. ‘Pointless Heartbreak Unrepaid’: Consequentialism and the IRA’s Armed Struggle 119
11. 6. Violating the Inviolable: Human Rights and the IRA’s Armed Struggle 144
12. 7. ‘Crime is Crime is Crime’: British Counter-Terrorism in Northern Ireland 168
13. 8. ‘When the Law Makers are the Law Breakers’: State Terrorism 194
14. Epilogue 220
15. Endnotes 227
16. References 232
17. Index 242