Watching the Door
Drinking Up, Getting Down, and Cheating Death in 1970s Belfast
by Kevin Myers
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books, History, and Nonfiction.
As an Irish Catholic raised in Leicester, fresh from University College Dublin with a first in History, Kevin Myers is sent north to work for the Belfast bureau of RTE News. There he covers the increasingly vicious conflict erupting in the city as the IRA campaign begins. Reporting too for Dublin?s Hibernia, the London Observer and NBC Radio for No...
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books, History, and Nonfiction.
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Thaddeus Grugq
“@RoryCormac Good book. Also, the British were vicious during that time. They published the wrong losses from robberies so the IRA would think the fund raising teams were skimming. They created the boogeyman and satanic panic to get the farmers to report suspicious activity at night.”
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