Revolutionary in Ireland (First Edition)
MACSTIOFĂIN, SeĂĄn. Revolutionary in Ireland. Great Britain: Gordon Cremonesi, 1975.
8vo. Original publisher's tan cloth. Gilt lettering to spine. Unclipped dust jacket. x, 372 pp., with eight pages of monochrome photographic plates. First edition.
Born John Edward Drayton Stephenson in London in 1928, SeĂĄn MacStĂofĂĄin was one of the most significant and controversial figures in the early history of the Provisional IRA. His trajectory from an English working-class background to the chief of staff of a republican paramilitary organisation is itself a study in the particular hold that Irish nationalist ideology could exercise over certain imaginations: he came into contact with Irish republican politics through Catholic schools, taught himself Irish, adopted an Irish name, and spent the next twenty-five years at the centre of the republican movement. He served as the Provisionals' intelligence chief and then, following the split from the Official IRA in 1969 that created the Provisional movement, as its first chief of staff â a position he held until 1972, when he was arrested, went on hunger strike, and was ultimately released on medical grounds after sixty-six days.
Revolutionary in Ireland is among the very few first-hand accounts of how a republican paramilitary organisation was structured, how operations were planned, and how policy was made at the highest levels. MacStĂofĂĄin describes his interpretation of Irish history and republican ideology with the directness of a man who has no interest in softening his convictions for a mainstream readership. The book was published at the height of the Troubles, and the choice of the obscure Gordon Cremonesi as publisher reflects the difficulty the manuscript would have faced with any larger house. It has been long out of print. First editions in the dust jacket are scarce.
Very good in like dust jacket. Jacket unclipped; some rubbing along edges and some small markings to upper cover. Binding fine, gilt bright. Some very minor markings scattered throughout contents, otherwise near fine.
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Catalogue Number: HH000126
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MACSTIOFĂIN, SeĂĄn. Revolutionary in Ireland. Great Britain: Gordon Cremonesi, 1975.
8vo. Original publisher's tan cloth. Gilt lettering to spine. Unclipped dust jacket. x, 372 pp., with eight pages of monochrome photographic plates. First edition.
Born John Edward Drayton Stephenson in London in 1928, SeĂĄn MacStĂofĂĄin was one of the most significant and controversial figures in the early history of the Provisional IRA. His trajectory from an English working-class background to the chief of staff of a republican paramilitary organisation is itself a study in the particular hold that Irish nationalist ideology could exercise over certain imaginations: he came into contact with Irish republican politics through Catholic schools, taught himself Irish, adopted an Irish name, and spent the next twenty-five years at the centre of the republican movement. He served as the Provisionals' intelligence chief and then, following the split from the Official IRA in 1969 that created the Provisional movement, as its first chief of staff â a position he held until 1972, when he was arrested, went on hunger strike, and was ultimately released on medical grounds after sixty-six days.
Revolutionary in Ireland is among the very few first-hand accounts of how a republican paramilitary organisation was structured, how operations were planned, and how policy was made at the highest levels. MacStĂofĂĄin describes his interpretation of Irish history and republican ideology with the directness of a man who has no interest in softening his convictions for a mainstream readership. The book was published at the height of the Troubles, and the choice of the obscure Gordon Cremonesi as publisher reflects the difficulty the manuscript would have faced with any larger house. It has been long out of print. First editions in the dust jacket are scarce.
Very good in like dust jacket. Jacket unclipped; some rubbing along edges and some small markings to upper cover. Binding fine, gilt bright. Some very minor markings scattered throughout contents, otherwise near fine.
This book is currently not on display in store. If you would like more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact: [email protected]
Catalogue Number: HH000126
