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Auteur(s) : Kennedy, Liam (1946-....)
Titre(s) : Who was responsible for the troubles? [Texte imprimé] : the Northern Ireland conflict / Liam Kennedy
Publication : Montreal (Canada) : McGill-Queen's University Press, copyright 2020
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XVI-274 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 255-267. Index
"The Troubles claimed the lives of almost four thousand people in Northern Ireland,
most of them civilians; forty-five thousand were injured in bombings and shootings.
Relative to population size this was the most intense conflict experienced in Western
Europe since the end of the Second World War. The central question posed in this book
is fundamental, yet it is one that has rarely been asked: Who was primarily responsible
for the prosecution of the Troubles and their attendant toll of the dead, the injured,
and the emotionally traumatized? Liam Kennedy, who lived in Belfast throughout most
of the conflict, was long afraid to raise the question and its implications. After
years of reflection and research on the matter he has brought together elements of
history, politics, sociology, and social psychology to identify the collective actors
who drove the conflict onwards for more than three decades, from the days of the civil
rights movement in the late 1960s to the signing of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998.
The Troubles in Northern Ireland are a world-class problem in miniature. The combustible
mix of national, ethnic, and sectarian passions that went into the making of the conflict
has its parallels today in other parts of the world. Who Was Responsible for the Troubles?
is an original and controversial work that captures the terror and the pain but also
the hope of life and the pursuit of happiness in a deeply divided society. "
Sujet(s) : Violence politique -- Irlande du Nord (GB) -- 1970-....
Politique et gouvernement -- Irlande du Nord (GB) -- 1969-1998
Irlande du Nord (GB) -- 1969-1998 (Conflit d'Irlande du Nord)
Indice(s) Dewey :
941.608 24 (23e éd.) = Histoire - Irlande du Nord - 1969-1999
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780228003687 (rel.). - ISBN 0228003687 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb46698491c
Notice n° :
FRBNF46698491
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : A Parade of Candidates ; Responsibility and Its Burdens ; The Terror Within ;
They Shoot Children, Don't They? ; Guilt, Shame, Ideological Evasion (and Even Atonement).
