Bombs, Bullets and the Border: Policing Ireland’s Frontier: Irish Security Policy, 1969-1978 [Paperback ed.] 1911024493, 9781911024491

"Patrick Mulroe's book shines a penetrating light onto the under-studied role of the Irish government's s

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Bombs, Bullets and the Border: Policing Ireland’s Frontier: Irish Security Policy, 1969-1978 [Paperback ed.]
1911024493, 9781911024491

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