A Tragedy of Errors: The Government and Misgovernment of Northern Ireland
Kenneth Bloomfield
Abstract
The decommissioning of the Provisional IRA in 2005 suggests that Northern Ireland may finally be ready to turn from the deadly paramilitary clashes of the twentieth century to the thorny problems of a normalized political process. The book probes a number of crucial questions about the United Kingdom's management of Irish affairs. Three decades of fighting have had grave consequences for Northern Ireland —what were the costs? Was violence inevitable? The book delineates the unwise decisions and abrogated responsibilities that led to the civil crisis of the Troubles while emphasizing the United ... More
Keywords: Provisional IRA, Northern Ireland, paramilitaries, United Kingdom, violence, Troubles, peace
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2007 | Print ISBN-13: 9781846310645 |
| Published to Liverpool Scholarship Online: June 2013 | DOI:10.5949/UPO9781846312519 |
