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PART I - Violent Undercurrents pre-1914 Europe  1. Violence in pre-1914 Europe  2. Ireland - peaceful, patient and hopeful  PART II – Michael Collins and the struggle for Irish independence  3. Cork, London, Dublin - and 1916 debacle  4. Collins reorganises the Volunteers…  5. And de Valera enlists America  6. The Anglo-Irish War 1919-1921  7. Collins’ Intelligence War  8. Treaty and Civil War  PART III – The Sinews of War  9. Preparing in London, active in Dublin  10. Filling the war chest - the National Loan  11. Funds from America, funds in America  12. Collins, Minister of Finance  13. The Anglo-Irish Treaty- Ireland’s fiscal autonomy  14. The North  15. The Sinews of Civil War and the Republicans hamstrung  PART IV 16. Later Political Violence and Insurgency and their Financing