The Devil's Deal - The IRA and Nazi Germany

Jim O’Donovan was a major IRA figure whose fighting career had, by 1945, spanned almost three decades. A shadowy and enigmatic character, he was also the IRA’s chief liaison officer with the Third Reich during WWII. A State employee by day and top IRA officer by night, he projected himself as a pillar of middle-class Dublin, and worked as a manager for the ESB until his retirement.

This book details O’Donovan’s involvement in the infamous S-Plan bombing campaign in England (1939–1940), and is the first time that the Coventry bombers of 1939 will be named. The IRA’s officer commanding the English Midlands region in 1939 was Belfast man, Dominic Adams, an uncle of Gerry Adams.

Includes a foreword by Diarmaid Ferriter.