ABSTRACT
T he evolution of Northern Ireland, from the 1968 revolt by a new generation of republican militants to the successful Good Friday Agree-ment of 1998, is a classic example of the movement model. However, it has received little attention on the traditional American Left or among national security thinkers. Left theorists, historians, and sociologists have tended to be either British-centric or suspicious of the anti-Semitic tendencies associated with traditional Catholic nationalism, sometimes justifiably so. The neutrality of the Irish state during World War II cemented this suspicion on the Left and Right.
