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- Publication Date
- 2022-03-18
- Pages
- 296
- ISBN
- 9780228011989
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
ISBN-10
0228011981
ISBN-13
9780228011989
eBay Product ID (ePID)
8057242942
Product Key Features
Book Title
Who Was Responsible for the Troubles? : the Northern Ireland Conflict
Number of Pages
296 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2022
Topic
Imperialism, Europe / Great Britain / General, Europe / Ireland
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Political Science, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
15.9 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
Part moving memoir and part engagé history. Savage indignation? Definitely. Irony and humour? Indeed. Neutral, dispassionate, detached? Hardly. Stimulating? Throughout. Convincing? Let the readers decide. Who Was Responsible? is a must-read for friend an|9780228011989|, "Probably the bravest, most controversial and groundbreaking book on Northern Ireland since Conor Cruise O'Brien's States of Ireland (1972), this enthralling whodunit is the product of a lifetime's reading, thinking, and passionate activism on behalf of the victims of governments, terrorists, fellow travellers, and other vested interests." Ruth Dudley Edwards, author of The Seven: The Lives and Legacies of the Founding Fathers of the Irish Republic, Probably the bravest, most controversial and groundbreaking book on Northern Ireland since Conor Cruise O'Brien's States of Ireland (1972), this enthralling whodunit is the product of a lifetime's reading, thinking, and passionate activism on behalf of t|9780228011989|, Kennedy is a leading authority on the Northern Ireland conflict and his book combines rigor with absorbing, elegant prose and a sense of moral purpose that is rare in academic writing." John Connelly, author of From Peoples into Nations: A History of Eastern Europe, "Kennedy is a leading authority on the Northern Ireland conflict and his book combines rigor with absorbing, elegant prose and a sense of moral purpose that is rare in academic writing." John Connelly, author of From Peoples into Nations: A History of Eastern Europe, Part moving memoir and part engagé history. Savage indignation? Definitely. Irony and humour? Indeed. Neutral, dispassionate, detached? Hardly. Stimulating? Throughout. Convincing? Let the readers decide. Who Was Responsible? is a must-read for friend and foe. Cormac Ó Gráda, author of Famine: A Short History, Kennedy's gripping survey has all the dash of the hurlers its Tipperary-born author so admires. Naturally, the man who coined the acronym MOPE (Most Oppressed People Ever) conducts his field court martial of the chief culprits with a sharp eye. As an his|9780228011989|, Probably the bravest, most controversial and groundbreaking book on Northern Ireland since Conor Cruise O'Brien's States of Ireland (1972), this enthralling whodunit is the product of a lifetime's reading, thinking, and passionate activism on behalf of the victims of governments, terrorists, fellow travellers, and other vested interests. Ruth Dudley Edwards, author of The Seven: The Lives and Legacies of the Founding Fathers of the Irish Republic, "Liam Kennedy's Who Was Responsible for the Troubles? is one of my three final choices disproving the cliche that books on Northern Ireland are boring. Kennedy's gripping survey has all the dash of the hurlers its Tipperary-born author so admires. Naturally, the man who coined the acronym MOPE (Most Oppressed People Ever) conducts his field court martial of the chief culprits with a sharp eye. As an historian, he is ferociously fair, but, while he gives a clean bill of health to no side in Northern Ireland, on balance, he believes the Provisional IRA was mostly to blame for the long misery of the armed struggle." Eoghan Harris, Irish Sunday Independent, "Part moving memoir and part engagé history. Savage indignation? Definitely. Irony and humour? Indeed. Neutral, dispassionate, detached? Hardly. Stimulating? Throughout. Convincing? Let the readers decide. Who Was Responsible? is a must-read for friend and foe." Cormac Ó Gráda, author of Famine: A Short History, "A work of exceptional frankness ... Kennedy lays out the nature and scale of brutality involved in the Troubles, overseen by a 'black' criminal justice system which was responsible for administering and unspeakable regime of terror on both sides of the secretarian divide." The Commonwealth Lawyer, "This book should be read by every impressionable person who dons the green-tinted spectacles from the comfort of their armchair, or those who ignore the factual among the fictional narrative that "war" came to the IRA. ... It is an important addition to, "A provocative, original, and courageous book. Anybody interested in the Northern Ireland Troubles, or in the complex legacies of terrorist violence, should read it." Richard English, author of Does Terrorism Work? A History, "This book should be read by every impressionable person who dons the green-tinted spectacles from the comfort of their armchair, or those who ignore the factual among the fictional narrative that "war" came to the IRA. ... It is an important addition to offer a different analysis of the rise of republican romanticism. Kennedy's exploration of brutal violence inflicted, and the scale of deaths, deconstructs that logic meticulously." The Sunday Independent, A work of exceptional frankness ... Kennedy lays out the nature and scale of brutality involved in the Troubles, overseen by a 'black' criminal justice system which was responsible for administering and unspeakable regime of terror on both sides of the s|9780228011989|, "Kennedy's gripping survey has all the dash of the hurlers its Tipperary-born author so admires. Naturally, the man who coined the acronym MOPE (Most Oppressed People Ever) conducts his field court martial of the chief culprits with a sharp eye. As an historian, he is ferociously fair, but, while he gives a clean bill of health to no side in Northern Ireland, on balance, he believes the Provisional IRA was mostly to blame for the long misery of the armed struggle." Eoghan Harris, Irish Independent, "This book should be read by every impressionable person who dons the green-tinted spectacles from the comfort of their armchair, or those who ignore the factual among the fictional narrative that war" came to the IRA. ... It is an important addition to offer a different analysis of the rise of republican romanticism. Kennedy's exploration of brutal violence inflicted, and the scale of deaths, deconstructs that logic meticulously." The Sunday Independent, This book should be read by every impressionable person who dons the green-tinted spectacles from the comfort of their armchair, or those who ignore the factual among the fictional narrative that war" came to the IRA. ... It is an important addition to offer a different analysis of the rise of republican romanticism. Kennedy's exploration of brutal violence inflicted, and the scale of deaths, deconstructs that logic meticulously." The Sunday Independent, A provocative, original, and courageous book. Anybody interested in the Northern Ireland Troubles, or in the complex legacies of terrorist violence, should read it. Richard English, author of Does Terrorism Work? A History
Dewey Decimal
941.60824
Synopsis
Who was primarily responsible for the prosecution of the Troubles and their attendant toll of the dead, the injured, and the emotionally traumatized? Who Was Responsible for the Troubles? is an original and controversial work that captures the terror and the pain but also the hope of life and pursuit of happiness in a deeply divided society., The Troubles claimed the lives of almost four thousand people in Northern Ireland, most of them civilians; forty-five thousand were injured in bombings and shootings. Relative to population size this was the most intense conflict experienced in Western Europe since the end of the Second World War. The central question posed in this book is fundamental, yet it is one that has rarely been asked: Who was primarily responsible for the prosecution of the Troubles and their attendant toll of the dead, the injured, and the emotionally traumatized? Liam Kennedy, who lived in Belfast throughout most of the conflict, was long afraid to raise the question and its implications. After years of reflection and research on the matter he has brought together elements of history, politics, sociology, and social psychology to identify the collective actors who drove the conflict onwards for more than three decades, from the days of the civil rights movement in the late 1960s to the signing of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998. The Troubles in Northern Ireland are a world-class problem in miniature. The combustible mix of national, ethnic, and sectarian passions that went into the making of the conflict has its parallels today in other parts of the world. Who Was Responsible for the Troubles? is an original and controversial work that captures the terror and the pain but also the hope of life and the pursuit of happiness in a deeply divided society.
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DA990.U46
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