The Politics of Illusion: A Political History of the IRA

Type

Book

Authors

Henry Patterson

ISBN 10

1897959311

ISBN 13

9781897959312

Tags

Europe, Radicalism, European, Political Science, Political Ideologies

Description

This is the first comprehensive study of the IRA's attempts to create a "social republicanism, " a marriage between militant nationalism and the politics of the left. From agitation among the peasantry in the 1920s to efforts in the 1990s to add a political dimension to purist nationalism in the form of Sinn Fein's "peace process, " Henry Patterson analyzes the various failed attempts to marry two fundamentally incompatible ideologies. - from Amzon

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