Rebel Hearts : Journeys Within the IRA’s Soul

Kevin Toolis investigated the lives of men and women who, for the twenty-five years of the IRA’s war with Britain formed the backbone of its effort.

Each chapter explores a world in which history and the republican (and loyalist) interpretation of it dominate lives and deaths. Rebel Hearts does not seek to explain the roots of the conflict in Northern Ireland in a direct historical narrative form, but constructs, and reconstructs, its history through a series of connected and highly detailed individual portraits.