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From Civil Rights to Armalites
Niall O'Dochartaigh
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Description for From Civil Rights to Armalites
Paperback. Num Pages: 348 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKN; HBJD1; HBLW3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 218 x 143 x 20. Weight in Grams: 456.
From Civil Rights to Armalites traces and analyses the escalation of conflict in Northern Ireland from the first civil rights marches to the verge of full-scale civil war in 1972, focusing on the city of Derry. It explains how a peaceful civil rights campaign gave way to increasing violence, how the IRA became a major political force and how the British army became a major party to the conflict. It provides the essential context for understanding the events of Bloody Sunday and a new chapter brings significant new material to the public debate around the Bloody Sunday Inquiry.
From Civil Rights to Armalites traces and analyses the escalation of conflict in Northern Ireland from the first civil rights marches to the verge of full-scale civil war in 1972, focusing on the city of Derry. It explains how a peaceful civil rights campaign gave way to increasing violence, how the IRA became a major political force and how the British army became a major party to the conflict. It provides the essential context for understanding the events of Bloody Sunday and a new chapter brings significant new material to the public debate around the Bloody Sunday Inquiry.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
348
Condition
New
Number of Pages
332
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9781403944313
SKU
V9781403944313
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99-15
About Niall O'Dochartaigh
NIALL Ó. DOCHARTAIGH is a Lecturer in Political Science and Sociology at the National University of Ireland, Galway. He worked previously for INCORE, the Initiative on Conflict Resolution and Ethnicity of the UN University and the University of Ulster. He has been a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, and at the University of Southern California and is ... Read more
Reviews for From Civil Rights to Armalites
Reviews of Previous Edition: '...it offers a vivid portrayal, vibrating with contemporary relevance... Stylistically, this reads more like a work of investigative journalism than an academic treatise... a splendid, lively, sharp account.' - Eamonn McCann, Sunday Tribune '..written in a manner that is both scholarly and accessible to the general reader...manages to be balanced ... Read more