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The gun in politics : an analysis of Irish political conflict, 1916-1986
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ISBN: 1560005661 Year: 1991 Publisher: New Brunswick London Transaction Publishers


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Histoire de l'Irlande : de 1912 à nos jours
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ISBN: 9791021017429 Year: 2016 Publisher: Paris: Tallandier,

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Le lundi de Pâques 1916, une petite troupe d'insurgés part à l'assaut de la Grand-Poste de Dublin et proclame l'Irlande souveraine et indépendante. Les Britanniques mobilisent six mille soldats pour réprimer la rébellion. à la fin de la semaine, l'insurrection aura fait plus de 500 morts et 2 500 blessés. Le centenaire de l'insurrection de Pâques 1916 est l'occasion de retracer l'histoire de l'Irlande indépendante. 1912. Le Home Rule, projet de loi proposant une certaine autonomie au sein du Royaume-Uni, porte tous les espoirs du peuple irlandais. Alors que l'Ulster y est hostile et que l'Europe entre dans la Première Guerre mondiale, une véritable lutte s'engage pour se libérer du joug britannique. Il faudra attendre la fin de la guerre d'Indépendance en 1921 pour qu'un traité reconnaissant l'Irlande comme état libre soit signé. Mais les tensions ne sont pas apaisées : une guerre civile entre partisans et opposants éclate l'année suivante, et le conflit nord-irlandais débute à la fin des années 1960. Entre espoirs et désillusions, défaites et victoires, Alexandra Slaby raconte la destinée singulière de l'Irlande depuis sa genèse révolutionnaire jusqu'à la terrible crise financière de 2008 et la relance économique. Des scandales qui ont ébranlé l'église catholique à l'adoption du mariage gay en 2015, elle fait la part belle à l'histoire politique et sociale du pays. « D'ici 2016, nous serons le meilleur petit pays au monde où entre-prendre, le meilleur pays où fonder une famille, et le meilleur pays où vieillir dans la dignité et le respect… Ce sera la république de 2016. » Enda Kenny, Premier ministre de l'Irlande, 2012

Ireland 1798-1998 : politics and war
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ISBN: 0631195424 0631195416 9780631195429 9780631195412 Year: 2000 Publisher: Oxford Blackwell

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Irish journalism before independence : more a disease than a profession
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ISBN: 9780719084515 0719084512 9780719084522 0719084520 0719094941 Year: 2011 Publisher: Manchester: Manchester University press,

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The rising : Easter 1916
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ISBN: 1283851342 0191538973 9780191538971 9780199605972 0199605971 9780192801869 0192801864 Year: 2010 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press,

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The Easter Rising of 1916 not only destroyed much of the centre of Dublin - it changed the course of Irish history. But how did it achieve this? What role did people from ordinary backgrounds play in the making of the Irish revolution and what motivated them to take part in it? What did the rebels think they could achieve? And what kind of a republic were they fighting for? These basic questions continue to divide historians of modern Ireland.The Rising is the story of Easter 1916 from the perspective of those who made it, focusing on the experiences of rank and file revolutionaries - a story


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Belfast Diaries : A Gunner In Northern Ireland 1971-74
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ISBN: 1910294225 9781910294222 9781909384071 1909384070 Year: 2013 Publisher: : Helion & Company,

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""It's a very weird sensation to be shot at... Very often you see the gunman when it's too late or you don't see him at all. You might as well just be targets on a rifle range. I often wondered if I would get through this tour ok, and even now I still do... ""In the four-month period during 1971 that Gunner Stephen Corbett was stationed in Andersontown, Northern Ireland, 33 servicemen were killed by terrorist action in the province. His unit, 9 (Plassey) Bty, Royal Artillery, was attacked by a bomb, bullet or rioters on more than 400 occasions. In 1972 alone, the toll of service personnel kill


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Joy : Mountjoy Jail. The shocking, true story of life on the inside
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ISBN: 1847175104 Year: 2013 Publisher: : The O'Brien Press,

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One man's story of life in The Joy ? compulsive, chilling and frank. A no-holds-barred account of a criminal's time in the notorious Dublin prison, as revealed to journalist Paul Howard. This extraordinary life story tells it all. The desperate lifestyle of a junkie; bullying and savage beatings among the prisoners; ingenious drug-smuggling ploys; the despairing cry for help of a failed suicide attempt. But alongside the pain there is humour ? from the hilarity of World Cup celebrations to the distraction of a beautiful aerobics teacher, from bingeing on altar wine to the shortest-ever ""hunge


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About Time : Surviving Ireland's Death Row
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ISBN: 0752491563 9780752491561 Year: 2012 Publisher: Stroud : The History Press,

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Law and justice are not always one and the same. On the 27 November 1980, Peter Pringle waited in an Irish court to hear the following words: 'Peter Pringle, for the crime of capital murder ? the law prescribes only one penalty, and that penalty is death.' The problem was that Peter did not commit this crime. Facing a sentence of death by hanging, Peter sought the inner strength and determination to survive. When his sentence was changed to forty years without remission he set out to prove his innocence. Fifteen years later, he is finally a free man. This is his story.


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The Oxford handbook of modern Irish theatre
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ISBN: 0198706138 0198849443 9780198849445 9780198706137 Year: 2019 Publisher: Oxford: Oxford University Press,

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The Oxford handbook of modern Irish theatre' provides the single most comprehensive survey of the field to be found in a single volume. Drawing on more than forty contributors from around the world, the book addresses a full range of topics relating to modern Irish theatre from the late nineteenth-century theatre to the most recent works of postdramatic devised theatre. Ireland has long had an importance in the world of theatre out of all proportion to the size of the country, and has been home to four Nobel Laureates (Yeats, Shaw, and Beckett; Seamus Heaney, while primarily a poet, also wrote for the stage). This collection begins with the influence of melodrama, looks at arguably the first modern Irish playwright, Oscar Wilde, before moving into a series of considerations of the Abbey Theatre, and Irish modernism. Arranged chronologically, it explores areas such as women in theatre, Irish-language theatre, and alternative theatres, before reaching the major writers of more recent Irish theatre, including Brian Friel and Tom Murphy, and their successors. There are also individual chapters focusing on Beckett and Shaw, as well as a series of chapters looking at design, acting and theatre architecture. The book concludes with an extended survey of the critical literature on the field. In each chapter, the author does not simply rehearse accepted wisdom; all of the authors push the boundaries of their respective fields, so that each chapter is a significant contribution to scholarship in its own right.

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