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How the Troubles Came to Northern Ireland

By Peter Rose (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year
2001
ISBN
978-0-333-94941-2, 978-0-230-28867-6, 978-0-333-71470-6, 978-0-312-22434-9
DOI
10.1007/978-0-230-28867-6
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1186008 bytes)
Series
Contemporary History in Context Series
Edition
1
Pages
XX, 216\237
Time added
2016-03-14 21:35:01
History of Britain and Ireland; Political Science;

Description

In a new book about Northern Ireland historian Peter Rose argues that if Harold Wilson's government in the late sixties had pursued a different policy the province might have been spared The Troubles. Wilson had promised the Catholics that they would be granted their civil rights. However, new evidence suggests that Westminster was deliberately gagged to prevent MPs demanding that the Stormont administration ended discrimination in the province. Had the government acted on intelligence of growing Catholic unrest, it could have prevented the rise of the Provisional IRA without provoking an unmanageable Protestant backlash. The book draws upon recently released official documents and interviews with many key politicians and civil servants of the period to examine the failure of British policy to prevent the troubles.

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