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Making Sense of the Troubles

Making Sense of the Troubles

The Story of the Conflict in Northern Ireland

by David McKittrick

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appears in About United Kingdom, Politics, and History.

Compellingly written and evenhanded in its judgments, this is by far the clearest account of what has happened through the years in the Northern Ireland conflict, and why. After a chapter of background on the period from 1921 to 1963, it covers the ensuing periodthe descent into violence, the hunger strikes, the AngloIrish accord, the bombers in...

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appears in About United Kingdom, Politics, and History.

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