Michael Collins and the financing of violent political struggle / Nicholas Ridley.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-209) and index.

Part I. Violent undercurrents pre-1914 Europe -- Violence in pre-1914 Europe -- Ireland: peaceful, patient and hopeful -- Part II. Michael Collins and the struggle for Irish independence -- Cork, London, Dublin and 1916 debacle -- Collins reorganises the volunteers -- And De Valera enlists America -- The Anglo-Irish War 1919-1921 -- Collins' intelligence war -- Treaty and Civil War -- Part III. The sinews of war -- Preparing in London, active in Dublin -- Filling the war chest: the national loan -- Funds from America, funds in America -- Collins, minister of finance -- The Anglo-Irish Treaty: Ireland's fiscal autonomy -- The north -- The sinews of Civil War and the Republicans hamstrung -- Part IV. Later political violence and its financing -- Later political violence and insurgency and their financing.