Killing Rage (Paperback)

Paperback. This is an account of how an angry young man can cross the line that divides theoretical support for violence from a state of 'killing rage', in which the murder of neighbour becomes thinkable. Over 3000 people have died in Northern Ireland since 1969, and most of them have died at the hands of their neighbours. The intimacy of the Ulster conflict, what it means to carry out a political murder when in all probability the victim is personally known, or lives in a nearby street, is described accurately by an honest participant. The book does not attempt to soften the impact of the events it describes through euphemism or rhetoric. It is a truthful picture of the brutality and waste caused by the IRA's unwinnable campaign, and of its human consequences. It is also a self-portrait of the despair and disintegration, the hardening to conscience and grief, that accompany political violence. A personal account by an ex-IRA terrorist, which reveals how he became involved in the group and offers insight into how people can degenerate from ordinary viewpoints to a state of killing rage, where the murder of neighbours and even friends becomes thinkable. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…