Sinn Fin: A Hundred Turbulent Years - Softcover

Feeney, Brian

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Synopsis

Sinn Féin is one of the oldest and most controversial parties in Irish politics. This is the fascinating story of a party which has repeatedly reshaped its identity over a hundred years. From Arthur Griffith to Gerry Adams, Sinn Féin boasts a roll-call of major personalities from twentieth-century Irish history including de Valera, Markievicz, Collins, Ó Brádaigh, Goulding, MacGiolla, and McGuinness. Brian Feeney traces Sinn Féin's zigzag path towards constitutional politics and presents a critical analysis of the party's personalities and policies over the century. He shows how it has arrived at last in government in the north with hopes of a future role in coalition in the republic, and confidently predicting a united Ireland. This is an important and timely book from an esteemed journalist, and an impartial analysis of Sinn Féin's involvement in Irish politics, north and south, over the last hundred years.

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From the Publisher

Copublished with the O'Brien Press, Dublin.

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From the Back Cover

"Who here really believes we can win a war through the ballot box? But will anyone object if, with a ballot paper in one hand and an Armalite in the other, we take power in Ireland?"-Danny Morrison, 1981

"An easy read, a popular history which glitters with insight and valuably illuminates the present. . . . [Feeney] has laid out a mass of fact, quote, reminiscence and deft observation in a work which, among its other qualities, includes the best and most level-headed account of the Provos in the Peace Process yet to emerge."-Eamonn McCann, Sunday Tribune, Ireland

"Brian Feeney's book fills a gap in the extensive market on books about Ireland north and south. . . . Well worth a read."-Dr. Mo Mowlam, former Secretary of State for Northern Ireland

"An analytical and narrative masterpiece. . . . Brian Feeney has managed to recount the roller-coaster history of Sinn Féin in a balanced and extremely vivid manner."-Declan Kiberd, University College, Dublin

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