TY - BOOK ID - 77898282 TI - Fianna Fáil, partition and Northern Ireland, 1926-1971 PY - 2013 SN - 0716531879 9780716531876 0716531860 9780716531869 9780716531838 0716531836 PB - Dublin DB - UniCat KW - Irish unification question KW - Regions & Countries - Europe KW - History & Archaeology KW - Ireland KW - Unification of Ireland KW - Fianna Fail KW - History. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77898282 AB - When the Troubles broke out in Northern Ireland in the late 1960s, Fianna Fail was hopelessly ill-prepared for the ensuing crisis. Between the emotive years of 1969 to 1971 Fianna Fail was brought face to face with one of its most blatant contradictions: the gap between the party's habitual pronouncements of its desire for a united Ireland and the reality that the party could offer no practical solutions to deliver this objective. Why had this gap developed? This book answers this question and many more, tracing the historical reasons for why Fianna Fail failed to devise a reali ER -