From the final defeat of the Ulster chieftains at the hands of the British to the remarkable success of Sinn Fein - the political wing of the Irish Republican Army - in the 1983 Westminster elections, Catholicism in Ulster, 1603-1983 tells the story of the Roman Catholic communi…
From the final defeat of the Ulster chieftains at the hands of the British to the remarkable success of Sinn Fein - the political wing of the Irish Republican Army - in the 1983 Westminster elections, Catholicism in Ulster, 1603-1983 tells the story of the Roman Catholic communi…
To the IRA and its supporters the American connection meant guns and money. This volume reviews the flow of money and illegal munitions to the IRA from the US, and dissects the American press's often ill-informed reporting on the crisis in Northern Ireland.
The IRA, 1968-2000: Analysis of a secret army
This study is based on thousands of interviews over 35 years with the leaders and members of the Republican movement and the IRA itself, as well as the Irish, British and Americans involved in the Troubles. Not unmindful of the unfolding of history, nor the relevance of events, …
Part sociolinguistic, part ethnographic, this text takes up the neglected question of how ethnic division interacts with variation and change in Northern Irish English. It identifies an idealized folk model of harmonious communitites. Qualitative analysis of material from London…
Combining firsthand ethnographic reportage with historical research, Human Rights as War by Other Means traces the use of rights discourse in Northern Ireland's politics from the local civil rights campaigns of the 1960s to present-day activism for truth recovery and LGBT equali…
Combining firsthand ethnographic reportage with historical research, Human Rights as War by Other Means traces the use of rights discourse in Northern Ireland's politics from the local civil rights campaigns of the 1960s to present-day activism for truth recovery and LGBT equali…