Politics in the Streets
Book description
The civil rights movement of the 1960s profoundly transformed the political situation in Northern Ireland. Exposing injustice at the heart of the Northern Ireland state - political favouritism, gerrymandering, sectarian discrimination in housing and job allocation - the civil rights protests were a militant but constitutional challenge to Unionist domination.…
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1 author picked Politics in the Streets as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
The emergence of the violent phase of the conflict in Northern Ireland (euphemistically known as ‘The Troubles’) in the late 1960s has been subject to much debate over the years. But there is a danger that, given what happened once the violence erupted, its origins and their complexity have been obscured.
Many now see the conflict as simply about which jurisdiction should have sovereignty over the region. I like that Bob Purdie’s book on the civil rights movement (CRM) brought nuance and complexity back into the debate. The tendency of some books to either downplay the CRM or portray it…
From Eamonn's list on Northern Ireland and the conflict it endured.
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