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100 1  Kennedy, Liam,|d1946-|4aut 
245 10 Who was responsible for the troubles? :|bthe Northern 
       Ireland conflict /|cLiam Kennedy 
264  1 London :|bMcGill-Queen's University Press,|c[2020] 
264  4 |c©2020 
300    xvi, 274 pages|billustrations|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-267) and 
       index 
520    "The Troubles claimed the lives of almost four thousand 
       people in Northern Ireland, most of them civilians; forty-
       five thousand were injured in bombings and shootings. 
       Relative to population size this was the most intense 
       conflict experienced in Western Europe since the end of 
       the Second World War. The central question posed in this 
       book is fundamental, yet it is one that has rarely been 
       asked: Who was primarily responsible for the prosecution 
       of the Troubles and their attendant toll of the dead, the 
       injured, and the emotionally traumatized? Liam Kennedy, 
       who lived in Belfast throughout most of the conflict, was 
       long afraid to raise the question and its implications. 
       After years of reflection and research on the matter he 
       has brought together elements of history, politics, 
       sociology, and social psychology to identify the 
       collective actors who drove the conflict onwards for more 
       than three decades, from the days of the civil rights 
       movement in the late 1960s to the signing of the Good 
       Friday Agreement in 1998. The Troubles in Northern Ireland
       are a world-class problem in miniature. The combustible 
       mix of national, ethnic, and sectarian passions that went 
       into the making of the conflict has its parallels today in
       other parts of the world. Who Was Responsible for the 
       Troubles? is an original and controversial work that 
       captures the terror and the pain but also the hope of life
       and the pursuit of happiness in a deeply divided society. 
       "--|cProvided by publisher 
530    Issued also in electronic format 
610 24 Irish Republican Army 
650  0 Political violence|zNorthern Ireland 
650  0 Social conflict|zNorthern Ireland 
650  7 Politiskt våld|2sao 
650  7 Sociala konflikter|2sao 
650  7 Nordirlandfrågan|2sao 
651  0 Northern Ireland|xHistory|y1968-1998 
651  0 Northern Ireland|xPolitics and government|y1968-1998 
651  7 Storbritannien|zNordirland|2sao