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The troubles:, Ireland's ordeal 1966-1996 and the search for peace, Tim Pat Coogan

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The troubles:, Ireland's ordeal 1966-1996 and the search for peace, Tim Pat Coogan

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The troubles:

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Tim Pat Coogan

Sub title

Ireland's ordeal 1966-1996 and the search for peace

Summary

The Troubles refers to a violent thirty-year conflict, at the heart of which lay the constitutional status of Northern Ireland. Over 3,000 people were killed on all sides, and many more damaged by a legacy that continued long past 1998. After looking at the roots of Catholic discrimination of the Northern Irish state, Coogan points to Orange prejudice in housing, education and jobs and the lack of a Catholic outlet for peaceful protest. He argues that the war in the North started as a civil rights demonstration, but that radical Orange response soon turned protest into war. He takes a close look at Ian Paisley 'the great pornographer'; John Hume, the quiet peacemaker; Gerry Adams, gunman turned peacemaker; and Albert Reynolds, the first prime minister to insist on peace. In this controversial volume, Coogan covers all parts of the war, from Bloody Sunday in 1972 to the Bobby Sands hunger strike. Although written from a nationalist viewpoint, Coogan has taken a complicated history and explained it simply, with grace and wit

Target audience

adult

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