Rebel Hearts: Journeys Within the IRA's Soul

For ten years Kevin Toolis investigated the lives of the IRA soldiers who wage a secret battle against the British State. His journeys took him from the back kitchens of Belfast where men joked while making two-thousand-pound bombs to prisons for interviews with men serving life sentences and to the graveyards where mourners weep. Each chapter explores a world where history faith and human savagery determine life and death. At once moving and harrowing Rebel Hearts is the most authoritative and insightful book ever written on the IRA.