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The General: Irish Mob Boss
by Paul Williams.
Irish charm and gangland violence come together in this engrossing biography of Dublin godfather Martin Cahill. Irish journalist Williams recounts Cahill's rise from poverty to infamy as Ireland's most notorious crime boss, dubbed "the General" for his audacious and meticulously planned robberies.
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This Troubled Land : Voices from Northern Ireland on the Front Lines of Peace
by Patrick Michael Rucker
When American journalist Patrick Michael Rucker learned of the Northern Ireland peace accord signed on Good Friday, 1998, he knew he had to return. Rucker had last seen this torn country in 1991, when “the troubles” raged at a fever pitch of daily bombings and murder. Could such a violently divided society truly live in peace? What had changed? In the fall of 1998, Rucker returned to Belfast to see for himself, and this stark, gritty, spellbinding book is his report.
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Bandit Country by Toby Harnden.
For nearly three decades, Northern Ireland¹s South Armagh has been the most dangerous posting in the world for a British soldier. Its undulating terrain and fiercely independent people have made it the ideal theater of war for the Provisional IRA. Here, journalist Toby Harnden has stripped away the myth and propaganda of both sides to produce one of the most compelling books ever written on the Troubles.
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An Ulster Voice : In Search of Common Ground in Northern Ireland by Gary McMichael, Niall O'Dowd . From articles originally published in the Irish Voice between 1994 and 1998, this book chronicles the peace process from a Unionist perspective. |
The Committee By Sean McPhilemy.
In 1991 a British television documentary crew led by Sean McPhilemy produced a hard-hitting program about a vast conspiracy among the various loyalist factions in Northern Ireland that was responsible for the cold-blooded murder of several innocent Irish Roman Catholics. A member of "The Committee," interviewed for the program, revealed that the shadowy organization had such deep penetration into the Royal Ulster Constabulary, Northern Ireland's law enforcement force, that the two main gunmen essentially received a police escort to and from their killing sites.
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Making Peace
by George Mitchell.
Former United States senator George Mitchell tells the inside story of how he maneuvered the warring factions of Northern Ireland into signing the Good Friday peace agreement in 1998. This was no small task, requiring him to bring together Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams, Catholic moderate John Hume, Protestant politico David Trimble, unionist Ian Paisley, Irish prime minister Bertie Ahern, and British prime minister Tony Blair. Mitchell's prose is a model of clarity--a surprising quality coming from the pen of a politician, especially one of the most partisan Senate majority leaders of all time.
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Black and Green: The Fight for Civil Rights in Northern Ireland and Black AmericaBy Brian Dooley. To mark the 30th anniversary of the first civil rights sit-ins and marches in Northern Ireland, Black and Green traces the impact of Black America on Northern Ireland politics since the 1960's and Irish America's role in both civil rights campaigns. |
Bloody Sunday: Massacre in Northern Ireland: The Eyewitness Accounts
by Don Mullan (Compiler), John Scally (Compiler)
'The eyewitness accounts...are vivid, shocking, full of odd, aching detail, and bring back to mind the core fact of the matter, that Bloody Sunday was the biggest single act of injustice perpetrated
against the Catholic section of the North's working class by the British State in the course of the
Troubles.' --The (Dublin) Sunday Tribune Magazine 'The effect of this excellent book...will be finally to discredit the official account of Bloody Sunday.' -- Tim Pat Coogan in 'The Irish Times' |
The Easter Rebellion
By Max Caulfield.
You can almost hear the bullets whizzing by and feel the dust of a
crumbling GPO as Caulfield walks the reader through the streets of
Dublin during the days of the Rebellion. From the indecisive start to
the tragic end, the reader is shown what the front lines of the
revolution were like from both the English and Irish sides. Key Irish
leaders like Michael Collins and Eamon DeValera are portrayed
expertly.
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The IRA: A History
by Tim Pat Coogan.
When people think of the centuries-old struggle for home rule in
Northern Ireland, they generally think of the Irish Republican Army.
Now comes an exhaustive history of one of the most feared and
misunderstood paramilitary groups of all time--by an authority on
Irish affairs. 32 photos.
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Before the Dawn: An Autobiography
by Gerry Adams.The controversial president of Ireland's Sinn Fein describes his life as a young boy growing up in a small Irish town, his first stages of involvement with the IRA and the turbulent times during the revolutionary period, and modern-day peace talks with the British. |
Rebels: The Irish Rising of 1916
by Peter De Rosa.
This acclaimed dramatic account of how the Irish Republic was born
has already become an international bestseller. Capturing all the
suspense, pathos, and black comedy of the tiny, failed 1916 rebellion
that finally led to independence, Rebels is as riveting as Leon Uris's
Trinity, only all true.
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Rebel Hearts: Journeys Within the IRA's Soul
by Kevin Toolis. A harrowing portrait of the men and women of the IRA offers compelling portraits of individual IRA leaders, discusses the roots of the conflict in Northern Ireland, and examines the history and consequences of the organization's war against Britain from a personal perspective. |
Michael Collins: The Man Who Made Ireland
by Tim Pat Coogan
This definitive portrait of the life and times of the legendary man who
ended Ireland's eight-century struggle for independence illustriously
illuminates Irish nationalist Michael Collins--the man whose name is
still synonymous with the ongoing struggle for Irish independence. 63
photos.
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The Path to Freedom
by Michael Collins, Tim Pat Coogan.
Collins became the first commander-in-chief of the Irish Army while
still in his twenties. This book contains 30 of Collins' articles and
speeches in which he evaluates Ireland's heritage and charts its future.
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