The Troubles: Ireland's Ordeal and the Search for Peace: Ireland's Ordeal and the Search for Peace

by Tim Pat Coogan

Overview

Tim Pat Coogan covers the tortured history of Ireland from the beginning of the civil rights movement of the 1960s, through the long years of violence, up to the present attempts to find peace. His access to many of the principals gives this book a particular authority. Going beyond the slogans and headlines, Coogan provides a hard look at the deadly drama of a divided Ireland.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780312294182
Publisher:	St. Martin's Publishing Group
Publication date:	01/05/2002
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	624
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.38(d)

About the Author

Tim Pat Coogan is Ireland's best-known historical writer. His 1990 biography of Michael Collins rekindled interest in Collins and his era. He is also the author of The IRA, Long Fellow, Long Shadow, 1916: The Mornings After and The Twelve Apostles.

Table of Contents

	Illustrations	x
	Acknowledgements	xii
	Preface	xiv
	Introduction	1
1.	Bicycling to Busby	30
2.	Marching Feet and Angry Voices	70
3.	Letting Slip the Dogs of War	96
4.	A Job for the Army	134
5.	'They shot well, didn't they!'	157
6.	Playing the Orange Card	191
7.	Activity without Movement	211
8.	Law and Dis-order	225
9.	The Greening of the IRA	242
10.	Legal Weaponry	285
11.	The Media War	348
12.	How the Peace was Made--and Threatened	385
	Epilogue	482
	Notes	521
	List of Organisations	543
	Chronology	548
	Bibliography	561
	Index	569

Editorial Reviews

Tim Pat Coogan has dug, Heaney-like, into the past while opening doors to faraway places...” —Frank McCourt

“A very fine, provocative and intelligent book” —Irish Post

“Contains as much information as any mortal might reasonably require for an understanding of 25 years of violence” —Evening Standard, Melanie McDonagh

“The Troubles will be essential reading for any future scholar of Irish peace-making.” —Observer

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