What’s surreal is reading about the positional warfare of organizing committees and agitprop in Derry while an actual war, the Troubles, was starting at the same time.This is an updated edition of “War and an Irish Town”, the veteran civil rights campaigner, activist and journalist Eamonn McCann’s account – first published in 1974 – of the outbreak of ‘The Troubles’ in Northern Ireland and the province’s descent into three decades of sectarian violence. McCann's War and an Irish Town is an essential read for anyone determined to look beyond the surreptitious vagaries of the mainstream press when they report on Northern Ireland. Eamonn McCann has fought for justice in Derry, the north’s second largest city, for decades, and has plenty of stories and even more analysis to show for it. Had this been purely a social history of the rise of the Civil Rights movement in 1960s Derry, and a portrayal of the descent into anarchy, first with the Battle of the Bogside, then with the rise of the Provisionals in the early 70s, this would've been a solid 4 star for me, but I became lost at times in the latter stages of the book, in which McCann pontificates on a number of subjects. It’s all too explicable. More specifically, it is an attempt to reframe ‘The Troubles’ in a class-based, internationalist analysis, and to place the Northern Ireland conflict in a (broadly Marxist) context beyond the standard dichotomies of Republican versus Unionist, Catholic versus Protestant, and Green versus Orange.This is a good overview of the Troubles in Northern Ireland in the 1970's, particularly in Derry.
The most recent edition attempts to explain why the armed conflict was continuing, then over twenty years since its outbreak. It’s an enlightening read about the lousy situation the Catholics in Ulster faced, what it was like to grow up in that, how the mess developed over time, how the authorities often did the absolute wrong thing, and how ordinary people almost naturally and necessarily became radicalized.
Eamonn McCann has been campaigning for social justice in Derry
Prime members get unlimited deliveries at no additional cost The author was at the centre of events in Derry which first brought Northern Ireland to world attention. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. Thank God that’s pretty much history (or at least appears to be). October 31st 1993 Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations
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