A political history of Northern Ireland is reprinted here. Michael Farrell charts the story of Northern Ireland from its violent birth to its violent present. He describes the bloody pogroms with which the Unionist leaders, armed and financed by Britain, established their state. He records the fruitless efforts of the Catholics in and out of parliament, to redress their grievances. He shows how, in every decade, they have been driven to armed revolt. And he describes the few great moments of working-class solidarity and the ...
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A political history of Northern Ireland is reprinted here. Michael Farrell charts the story of Northern Ireland from its violent birth to its violent present. He describes the bloody pogroms with which the Unionist leaders, armed and financed by Britain, established their state. He records the fruitless efforts of the Catholics in and out of parliament, to redress their grievances. He shows how, in every decade, they have been driven to armed revolt. And he describes the few great moments of working-class solidarity and the way Unionist leaders crushed the working-class movement with sectarian politics. Farrell argues that this crisis can only be resolved by British withdrawal and an end to partition.
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For anyone with an interest in, or curiosity about, the recent troubles in Ireland this book is an excellent beginning. One of it's strengths is that it makes the subject very accessible. Something I like about it is that it was not written by someone 'writing history', whatever that is.
It is a very good example of what might have been meant by the genius who described 'history' as, "just one damned thing after another", as it recounts events as they were reported day in, day out in the Daily Newspapers. This means that there are lots of interesting facts included which 'historians' didn't think helped their thesis, or version of HISTORY.
