num_pages: 400
description: 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.
language: English
title: Rebel Hearts: Journeys Within the IRA's Soul
titlecomplete: Rebel Hearts: Journeys Within the IRA's Soul
genres: Biography, Ireland, History, Politics, Historical, World History, Irish Literature, War, Nonfiction, Unfinished
ratings_count: 802
places: Northern Ireland
publisher: St. Martin's Griffin