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2018.
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English
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Marty Ransom, son of the Captain and heir to a hilltop estate near Waterford in independent Ireland, lives a comfortable, boring life with his tennis-playing wife, Sugar, a vicar's daughter, and his job in the Department of External Affairs. Among their closest friends are an Anglo-Irish couple, a banker who was Sugar's childhood flame and his alluring diplomat wife, Alison. But Marty is a man divided. While his father fought with the British Army...
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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The search for justice for this one man's death--his body found in broad daylight, with tape over his eyes, an undisguised hit--would deliver more than the truth. It exposed his status as an informant and led to protests, campaigns, far-reaching changes to British law, a historic ruling from a senior judicial body, a ground-breaking police investigation, and bitter condemnation from a US Congressional commission. And there have been persistent rumors...
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English
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"A race-against-the-clock narrative that finally illuminates a history-changing event: the IRA's attempt to assassinate Margaret Thatcher and the epic manhunt that followed"--
"A bomb planted by the Irish Republican Army exploded at 2:54 a.m. on October 12, 1984. It was the last day of the Conservative Party Conference at the Grand Hotel in the coastal town of Brighton, England. Rooms were obliterated, dozens of people wounded, five killed. Prime...
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Publisher
Roberts Rinehart Publishers
Pub. Date
©1996
Language
English
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Throughout twenty-five years of conflict in Northern Ireland, John Hume has been the constant beacon of reason. A New Ireland is John Hume's remarkable story of his personal struggle for civil rights, peace and prosperity for all the people of Ireland. Born in 1937 into a working class Catholic family in Derry, Hume presents vivid memoirs of his youth, family and Catholic Nationalist community. He goes on to explain his political philosophy and examine...
Author
Publisher
Roberts Rinehart Publishers
Pub. Date
©1993
Language
English
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"The Irish Republican Army (IRA) (Irish: Óglaigh na hÉireann[1]) was an Irish republican revolutionary military organisation. It was descended from the Irish Volunteers, an organisation established on 25 November 1913 that staged the Easter Rising in April 1916. In 1919, the Irish Republic that had been proclaimed during the Easter Rising was formally established by an elected assembly (Dáil Éireann), and the Irish Volunteers were recognised by...
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Series
Conflict and change in Britain volume 4
Publisher
Athlone Press
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Incarcerated within Belfast's notorious Maze prison in the weeks before Christmas in 1979, Sean Moran emerges as a key player in the extreme Blanket protest at the height of Northern Ireland's Troubles, an uprising witnessed by new guard John Dunn.
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Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
©1997
Language
English
Description
Presents a feminist ethnography of the violence in Northern Ireland, providing an analysis of a political conflict through the lens of gender. The case in point is the Catholic resistance to British rule in Northern Ireland.
15) The Irish crisis
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Series
New World paperback volume NW-154
Publisher
International Publishers
Pub. Date
[1972]
Language
English
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