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Loyalist Mobilization and Cross-Border Violence in Rural Ulster, 1972-1974 (2020)
Journal Article
Burke, E. (2022). Loyalist Mobilization and Cross-Border Violence in Rural Ulster, 1972-1974. Terrorism and Political Violence, 34(6), 1057-1075. https://doi.org/10.1080/09546553.2020.1745777

This article argues that, at a tactical level, loyalist terrorism in the Irish border region between 1972 and 1974 worked. Cross-border attacks including bombings in Irish towns prompted the Irish government to reinforce security along the border—a l... Read More about Loyalist Mobilization and Cross-Border Violence in Rural Ulster, 1972-1974.

Counter-Insurgency against ‘kith and kin’?: the British Army in Northern Ireland, 1970–76 (2015)
Journal Article
Burke, E. (in press). Counter-Insurgency against ‘kith and kin’?: the British Army in Northern Ireland, 1970–76. Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 43(4), https://doi.org/10.1080/03086534.2015.1083215

This article argues that state violence in Northern Ireland during the period 1970–1976—when violence during the Troubles was at its height and before the re-introduction of the policy of police primacy in 1976—was on a greatly reduced scale from tha... Read More about Counter-Insurgency against ‘kith and kin’?: the British Army in Northern Ireland, 1970–76.