Tony Geraghty is a British-Irish writer and journalist. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located Ireland ( Irish: Éire, ˈeːrʲə is a country in north-western Europe. He served in the Parachute Regiment, and was awarded the Joint Service Commendation Medal for his work as a military liaison officer with U. The Parachute Regiment is the Airborne Infantry element of the British Army. The Commendation Medal is a mid-level United States military award which is presented for sustained acts of heroism or meritorious service S. forces during the Gulf War. He has been a journalist for The Boston Globe and was the Sunday Times Defence Correspondent in the 1970s. The Boston Globe (and Boston Sunday Globe) is the most widely circulated daily Newspaper in Boston and in New England, The Sunday Times is a Sunday Broadsheet Newspaper distributed in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland. [1]
Geraghty was born in Liverpool, England to an Irish Catholic family. Liverpool ( is a City and Metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland Irish Catholics is a term used to describe people of Roman Catholic background who are Irish or of Irish descent. He was educated at the London Oratory. The London Oratory School is a Roman Catholic, voluntary aided, comprehensive Secondary school in Fulham, London. [2]
During the Falls Curfew in July 1970, Geraghty was arrested at gunpoint by a British soldier and charged with impeding the army by being on the street against a military order, which carried an automatic prison sentence on conviction. The Falls Curfew, also known as the Lower Falls Curfew or sometimes as the "Rape of the Lower Falls" was a British Army operation on the Falls Road in In September 1970 a magistrate ruled he had no case to answer, and acquitted him. [3]
His 1998 book The Irish War: The Hidden Conflict Between the IRA and British Intelligence was written following research which included interviews with members of British Intelligence, the security forces, and the Provisional Irish Republican Army. The Provisional Irish Republican Army (Óglaigh na hÉireann ( IRA; also referred to as the PIRA, the Provos, or by some of its supporters as the It describes the various tactics, both military and political, used by the protagonists in the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Northern Ireland (Tuaisceart Éireann Ulster Scots: Norlin Airlann) is a Country within the United Kingdom, lying in the northeast of [4]
Publisher's Weekly called the book "highly opinionated" but praised "its attention to detail and its direct, potent writing. " Library Journal said "[t]he role of British Intelligence in Ulster has never been so deeply explored". [5]
On 3 December 1998 Geraghty's house was searched and he was interviewed by the Ministry of Defence police and in May 1999, he was charged with breaching the Official Secrets Act on the basis that he quoted from classified army documents in the book. Events 1800 - War of the Second Coalition: Battle of Hohenlinden, French Year 1998 ( MCMXCVIII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar) The Ministry of Defence ( MoD) is the United Kingdom government department responsible for implementation of government defence policy and is the headquarters The Official Secrets Act is any of several Acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for the protection of official information mainly related to National The army was concerned that in mentioning their Caister/Crucible computer intelligence databases for tracking the population of Northern Ireland, and the Vengeful-Glutton number plate recognition and vehicle tracking system, he might have been in possession of copies of the documents. [6]
The case was dropped in November 2000. [7][8][9] [10]
He has written several books on the Special Air Service. The Special Air Service ( SAS) is a Special forces regiment within the British Army which has served as a model and inspiration for the special The Bullet Catchers is a history of close protection bodyguards. A bodyguard (or "close protection officer" is a type of Security guard or government agent who protects a person—usually a famous wealthy or politically
Books
- Who Dares Wins: The Story of the Special Air Service, 1950-1980, 1980, (ISBN 085368457X)
- March or Die: A New History of the French Foreign Legion, 1987, (ISBN 0816017948)
- The Bullet Catchers, 1989, (ISBN 0586206221)
- Brixmis: The Untold Exploits of Britain's Most Daring Cold War Spy Mission, 1997, (ISBN 0006386733)
- The Irish War: The Hidden Conflict Between the IRA and British Intelligence, 1998, (ISBN 0801864569)
See also
References
- ^ Who Dares Wins - Little, Brown Book Group
- ^ Geraghty, Tony (2000). British Military Intelligence Systems in Northern Ireland is a term used to describe various HUMINT, ELINT, and SIGINT systems used by the RUC and British The Irish War: The Hidden Conflict Between the IRA and British Intelligence. Harper Collins, pp. HarperCollins is a Publishing company owned by News Corporation. xx-xxi. ISBN 978-0006386742.
- ^ The Irish War: The Hidden Conflict Between the IRA and British Intelligence, pp. 33-39
- ^ Google Books
- ^ Tony Geraghty
- ^ Duncan Campbell, The Guardian, November 2, 2000
- ^ New Statesman - Writers: guilty until found innocent
- ^ The Queen v. Wylde: The camera in the grocery shop
- ^ British Journalism Review Vol. 10, No. 2, 1999 - The sub-secret underworld of the D-Notice business
- ^ Secrets breach denied | Politics | The Guardian
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