Sinn Féin and the IRA

Matthew Whiting is Lecturer in Comparative Politics at the University of Birmingham. He was a contributor to Security in East Asia: Traditional and Non-Traditional Issues in the 21st Century edited by by Ramon Pacheco Pardo and Jeffrey Reeves (Imperial College Press, 2015).

• 1. Introduction; 2. Radicalism and Moderation in the History of Irish Republicanism; 3. Electoral Participation and Republican Moderation; 4. Democratisation and Reining-In Radical Republicanism; 5. The US and Brokering Republican Moderation; 6. British Policy Towards Irish Republicanism; 7. Conclusion.

‘The long march through the institutions’ was once a revolutionary strategy. Yet Matthew Whiting shows that in Ireland such an approach has moved Sinn Féin from revolution to moderation. He explains why, in what is an original and comparative book on the changing relationship between democracy and republicanism in Ireland.