ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly.
ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly.
In this meticulously reported book--as finely paced as a novel--Keefe uses McConville's murder as a prism to tell the history of the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
A History of Northern Ireland
This book assesses Northern Ireland's contribution to the war effort—its industrial production, its use as a base and training center for British and American troops, its strategic importance in the Battle of the Atlantic and the ...
Mair, P., 242 Major, J., 52,318, 319, 330, 332, 333, 349 Mallie, E., 24, 32 Mallon, S., 241, 250 Mandel, M., 149 Mansergh, N., 121, 122 Marshall, G., 134 Marx, K., 54 Mary Stuart, 68 Mary Tudor, 64 Mason, R., 184, 202, 208–9 Maudling, ...
... 112, 146–7, 191–4, 197–8 Williams, Betty 80 Williams, R. 114 n.25 Wilson, David A. 427 n.m Wilson, Harold 54–5 Wilson, Sir Henry 305, 367b Wilson, Sammy 15 Wilson, Woodrow 330–1, 338–9 Wolf, Nicholas M. 424 n.w Wood, Charles 249–50, ...
Northern Ireland: The Background to the Conflict
Smyth, Jim (1998). The Men of No Property: Irish Radicals and Popular Politics in the Late Eighteenth Century. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. Smyth, Jim (2001). The Making of the United Kingdom, 1660–1800. London: Pearson Education.
This study is an attempt to understand the history of Northern Ireland as it evolved from the introduction of the welfare state to the comparative prosperous 1960s which brought some...