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Gunsmoke and Mirrors
Henry McDonald
其他書名
How Sinn Féin Dressed Up Defeat as Victory
出版
Gill & Macmillan
, 2008
主題
History / Europe / Great Britain / General
History / Europe / Ireland
Political Science / Peace
Political Science / World / European
ISBN
0717142981
9780717142989
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=778bAQAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
"31 August 1994. The IRA ceasefire is announced in Belfast. Gerry Adams takes to the podium built close to Sinn Fein headquarters. All around him are placed helium balloons, flowers, teddy bears, good luck cards, etc. It's more like a kid's birthday party than the end of a war." "What Adams had to say was even more instructive. He talked about the community once being on its knees - an appeal to those scarred in memory by the loyalist pogroms of 1969. His speech was full of references to nationalist equality and parity of esteem. In short, he was re-packaging the so-called armed struggle as somehow the outworking of the old civil rights struggle." "Gunsmoke and Mirrors challenges this epic piece of myth-making." "Henry McDonald, himself from the republican Markets area of Belfast, talks to ex-IRA men about their real motivations for starting their war. It had nothing to do with civil rights. The settlement which Sinn Fein/IRA finally secured in 2007 is almost identical with one that had been on the table thirty years earlier. McDonald exposes the memorialist culture which continues to rewrite history to justify the unjustifiable." "McDonald gets past the cheap hagiography of terrorists and the wasted lives of a generation to focus on one essential truth: none of the IRA's principal war aims was achieved. The whole sorry business was a waste of time. The people who died, died in vain." --Book Jacket.