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The Troubles
The Troubles: Ireland's Ordeal 1966–1995 and the Search for Peace | Tim Pat Coogan
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The Troubles refers to a violent thirty-year conflict, at the heart of which lay the constitutional status of Northern Ireland. Over 3,000 people were killed on all sides, and many more damaged by a legacy that continued long past 1998. After looking at the roots of Catholic discrimination of the Northern Irish state, Coogan points to Orange prejudice in housing, education and jobs and the lack of a Catholic outlet for peaceful protest. He argues that the war in the North started as a civil rights demonstration, but that radical Orange response soon turned protest into war. He takes a close look at Ian Paisley 'the great pornographer';John Hume, the quiet peacemaker;Gerry Adams, gunman turned peacemaker;and Albert Reynolds, the first prime minister to insist on peace. In this controversial volume, Coogan covers all parts of the war, from Bloody Sunday in 1972 to the Bobby Sands hunger strike. Although written from a nationalist viewpoint, Coogan has taken a complicated history and explained it simply, with grace and wit.
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Took my book along while my son has the park to himself this foggy morning 💖

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bibliothecarivs How did you like this? I've got several Coogan books but have only ready one- his biography of Michael Collins. 3y
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Books and beers (reading selection brought to you by my new-found obsession with Derry Girls which has gotten me through the last few weeks of...well all this)

AlaMich My wife and I have been rewatching Derry Girls endlessly the last few weeks. Every time I see an episode I lament that there are so few in a season and that the latest season was delayed by COVID. It‘s wonderful! 4y
Alisnazzy @AlaMich I literally cannot stop watching it. I no longer need the closed captioning because I know the dialogue by heart at this point. Will continue to do this 😂 4y
AlaMich Ha! I did the captioning at first too!! 😂 4y
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LeahBergen I love Derry Girls SO MUCH. 🤣 4y
Ncostell I just discovered Derry Girls and binge watched the first season. Now I‘m slowing down because I don‘t want to run out of episodes. 4y
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