Sinn Féin: A Hundred Turbulent Years (History of Ireland & the Irish Diaspora) - Softcover

Feeney, Brian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0299186741 ISBN 13: 9780299186746

Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press, 2003

Synopsis

    Sinn Féin ("ourselves alone") is one of the most controversial political movements in Ireland. Here, for the first time, is the complete story of the rise and fall—and rise again—of a party that repeatedly has reshaped its identity over the course of a hundred years, moving from dual monarchy to dual strategy—the gun and the ballot box.
    From Arthur Griffith to Gerry Adams, this is a roll-call of major personalities from Irish and British history and politics, including Eamon de Valera, Countess Constance Markievicz, David Lloyd George, Michael Collins, Ruairí Ó Brádaigh, Cathal Goulding, Tomás MacGiolla, Margaret Thatcher, and Martin McGuinness.
    Now at the beginning of the twenty-first century, Sinn Féin seems poised to play a pivotal role in the Irish political arena, north and south, well into the future. Its place in history is still being written.

Copublished with the O’Brien Press, Dublin.
The Wisconsin edition is for sale only in North America and the Philippines.

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From the Publisher:

Copublished with the O'Brien Press, Dublin.

Wisconsin edition for sale only in North America and the Philippines

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

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0299186741
• ISBN 13: 9780299186746
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 464