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How the Troubles Came to North Ireland

How the Troubles Came to North Ireland

Rose, P.

Hardcover

Series: Contemporary History in Context

General World HistoryBritish HistoryInternational Relations

ISBN10: 0333753461
ISBN13: 9780333753460
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Sep 20 1999
Pages: 216
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
In a new book about Northern Ireland historian Peter Rose argues that if Harold Wilson's government in the late sixties had pursued a different policy the province might have been spared The Troubles. Wilson had promised the Catholics that they would be granted their civil rights. However, new evidence suggests that Westminster was deliberately gagged to prevent MPs demanding that the Stormont administration ended discrimination in the province. Had the government acted on intelligence of growing Catholic unrest, it could have prevented the rise of the Provisional IRA without provoking an unmanageable Protestant backlash. The book draws upon recently released official documents and interviews with many key politicians and civil servants of the period to examine the failure of British policy to prevent the troubles.

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