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Looking for more reading on the history of the Troubles + the IRA. I find this history to be extremely interesting especially with the latest resurgence of Sinn Fein in Ireland. I've read Rebel Hearts, but am looking for something more chronological and academic rather than biographical. Any suggestions?

Something like "The Islamic Enlightenment" by Bellaigue.

>> No.20361518

>>20361468
Frank O’Connor. No one knows him but he has an Everymans Library short story collection somehow.

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>>20361468
This was an excellent read, and I believe Coogan has published other books on Michael Collins and other figures and movements from the time period, though I haven't read them.
>>20361518
>No one knows him
What are you talking about? O'Connor is very well-known and respected. He's got a festival and a prize named after him and everything.

>> No.20361571

>>20361558
Maybe I’m just out of the loop. I know the Crying Game is is based off of the story where the IRA guys are holding the 2 British soldiers prisoner, but other than that, every time I bring him up, I get no replies. This is the first, so I’m mildly surprised

>> No.20361790

Ireland liberating itself from centuries of oppression by a distant empire only to submit willingly to the direct successor of that empire, the triad of international finance / the deep state / neoliberal ideology, is so sad. It's like escaping prison just to jump off a cliff.

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>>20361790
Pearse was a Proto-Fascist, imagine what could of been. He was an ardent nationalist and had hoped for a rebirth of native culture and people.

James Larkin was not at all a Communist or it appears as Socialist, having actively worked against them at several times. He too was a man for his people.

James Connolly, one people an Irish people.