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The Far Side of Revenge: Making Peace in Northern Ireland.

Deaglan De Breadun

Dublin: Collins, 2008. Revised edition. xvi, 448 pages. Paperback.

This book reveals how one of the world's most ruthless and determined guerilla organisations, the Irish Republican Army, came to put aside the gun and the bomb and make peace with its enemies…(The author's) narrative reads like a diplomatic thriller as he chronicles the extraordinary moves by the British, Irish and US governments to bring the IRA in from the cold…He describes the impact on the peace process of key personalities such as John Hume, David Trimble, Gerry Adams, Bill Clinton, Martin McGuinness, George Mitchell, Tony Blair, Mo Mowlam, Albert Reynolds, Bertie Ahearn, Seamus Mallon and Peter Mandelson. Revised Edition

USED. Very good in rubbed dustjacket.

Price: £ 10.00

The Politics of Irish Dissent, 1650-1800.

Kevin Herlihy (Editor).

Dublin: Four Courts, 1997. 126 pages. Hardback.

This book is part of a continuing series on the subject of Protestant dissent in Ireland and based on papers originally presented at the third annual conference held at Marsh's Library in Dublin. The current volume is divided into four parts. Part one deals with an historical interpretation of Irish history in regard to dissent and governmental authority in the 18th century. In part two there are four chapters addressing various aspects of the political relationship of dissenters to legal statute and different governmental administrations in Ireland. The third part looks at John Wesley's political attitudes. The last part provides a select document relevant to this study.

NEW. A fine copy.

Price: £ 9.40

The Resurrection of Hungary: A Parallel for Ireland.

GRIFFITH, Arthur (Introduction by Patrick Murray).

University College Dublin Press, 2003 (reprint). First published 1904. xxxii, 170 pages. Paperback.

"The case of Ireland is as nearly as possible parallel to the case of Hungary" - William Smith O'Brien. The Resurrection of Hungary, first published in 1904 and twice reprinted, strongly influenced nationalist debate between 1904 and 1921. Its central proposal - the withdrawal of Irish elected representatives from Westminster - was inherited from the Hungarian Franz Deak's policy of non co-operation with the Imperial parliament in Vienna in the 1860s. The idea of the dual monarchy, adopted by Austria and Hungary in 1867 in which each recognised the Austrian Emperor but had separate parliaments, continued to be advocated by a few Irish politicians in the 1920s. Griffith also expounds here his protectionist economic views which influenced Irish government policy for several decades. Arthur Griffith (1872-1922) was a journalist and politician. He founded Sinn Fein in 1905, and at the time of his sudden death was President of Dail Eireann. (reprint).

NEW. A very good copy

Price: £ 6.50

Fatal Influence: The Impact of Ireland on British Politics, 1920-1925.

MATTHEWS, Kevin.

University College Dublin Press, 2004. xvi, 317 pages. Illustrated. Paperback.

Fatal Influence places the settlement of the Irish Question in the 1920s within the broader context of a revolution then taking place in British politics and shows how each affected the other. In a finely detailed investigation, he explores the Irish partition and the often-conflicting motives that led to this momentous decision. Far from solving the Irish Question, dividing the country into two parts merely created what one politician at the time called its 'elements of dynamite'. These explosive elements were thrown into an already unstable political situation in Britain, with three political parties - Liberals, Conservatives, and Labour - all vying for a place in that nation's traditional two-party system. This book brings together some of the most colourful characters of twentieth-century British and Irish history, from Winston Churchill and Michael Collins to David Lloyd George and Eamon de Valera. Looming behind is Sir James Craig, the rock-like embodiment of Ulster Unionism. But this story of 'high politics' also involves men whose careers are not normally associated with the Irish conflict, figures such as Stanley Baldwin, Ramsay MacDonald, Neville Chamberlain and, even, Oswald Mosley and Anthony Eden.

USED. A very good copy.

Price: £ 10.00

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The Church of Ireland and the Third Home Rule Bill

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The Irish Conservative Party, 1852-1868: Land, Politics and Religion

The Lives and Times of the Presidents of Ireland

The SDLP: The Struggle for Agreement in Northern Ireland, 1970-2000

Democratic Left: The Life and Death of an Irish Political Party

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Ulster Labour and the Sixties.

Where Ulster Labour Stands.

What Ulster Labour Would Do.

Loyalism in Ireland: With Special Reference to Ulster and Presbyterians

Politics and Political Culture in Britain and Ireland 1750-1850

Sean MacEntee: A Political Life

Sinn Fein and the Politics of Left Republicanism

A Challenge to Democracy: Militant Catholicism in Modern Ireland

Fugitive Ireland: European Minority Nationalists and Irish Political Asylum, 1937-2008

1972 and the Ulster Troubles: A Very Bad Year

Loyalist Political Prisoners in Context: An Action Research Assessment of the Resettlement and Social needs of Loyalist Prisoners and their Families, with Recommendations for Future Service Provision

Patrick Kavanagh and the Leader: The Poet, the Politician and the Libel Trial

Soldiers of Folly: The IRA Border Campaign 1956-1962

In Search of the Promised Land: The Politics of Post-War Ireland

Jack Lynch: A Biography

Ireland, Europe and the World: Writings on a New Century

Studies in Irish, British and Australian Relations, 1916-1963: Trade, Diplomacy and Politics

The Fall of the House of Paisley

De Valera in America: The Rebel President's 1919 Campaign

Behind the Green Curtain: Ireland's Phoney Neutrality during World War II

Lenin on Ireland (Irish Socialist Library).

Northern Ireland: A Triumph of Politics - Interviews and Analysis 1988-2008.

Crossing the Border: New Relationships between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.

Patrick Hillery: The Official Biography.

Radical Politics in Modern Ireland: The History of the Irish Socialist Republican Party 1896-1904.

How the Peace was Won.

Political Censorship and the Democratic State: The Irish Broadcasting Ban.

The Far Side of Revenge: Making Peace in Northern Ireland.

Propagating the Word of Irish Dissent, 1650-1800.

The Politics of Irish Dissent, 1650-1800.

The Resurrection of Hungary: A Parallel for Ireland.

Irish Freedom: The History of Nationalism in Ireland.

Fatal Influence: The Impact of Ireland on British Politics, 1920-1925.

Fianna Fail, Irish Republicanism and the Northern Ireland Troubles, 1968-2005.

The Last of the Portadown News.

Gerry Fitt, A Political Chameleon.

Censorship in the Two Irelands, 1922-1939.

Londonistan: How Britain Is Creating a Terror State Within.

Party Nation: Ireland's General Elections - The Strokes, Jokes, Spinners and Winners.