Northern Ireland: A chronology of the troubles, 1968-1993 - Softcover

Bew, Paul

9780717120819: Northern Ireland: A chronology of the troubles, 1968-1993

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0717120813 ISBN 13: 9780717120819

Publisher: Gill & Macmillan, 1993

The Northern Ireland troubles began on 5th October 1968, when a civil rights march in Derry ended in violence as the police attacked an unarmed crowd with batons and water cannon. A quarter of a century on, the passions unleashed in Derry are still alive and the conflict they sparked off is as virulent as ever, with no lasting peace in sight. This book is a detailed account, in diary form, of the unfolding and development of the troubles. It also includes a number of short essays which look back at the major events of the last 25 years, assessing their significance and setting them in context. Among these are Sunday Bloody Sunday (1972), the collapse of the power-sharing executive (1974), the IRA hunger strikes (1981) and the Anglo-Irish Agreement (1985).

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About the Author:

Paul Bew is Professor Politics in Queen's University, Belfast. Dr. Gordon Gillespie teaches in the same department. He is also working as Research Officer on a joint project―-organized by the Queen's University of Ulster, the University of Ulster and Democratic Dialogue―-examining the implementation of the equality agenda in Northern Ireland in the wake of the Good Friday Agreement. Both men are well known and respected commentators on the history and politics of Northern Ireland.

Review:

It is a fine substitute for newspapers of the period 1968-1999, if the library has no subscription to papers from Northern Ireland...This volume is essential for libraries with patrons who want to study the situation in Northern Ireland in the late twentieth century. (American Reference Books Annual)

[Tells] the story of the Troubles day by day in an objective, thoughtful, factual manner...one of the more valuable additions to the literature of theTroubles. Libraries holding the first edition should replace it with this one... (CHOICE)

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