The Card-Players

Paul Foot

  • Error of Judgment: The Truth about the Birmingham Bombings by Chris Mullin
    Chatto, 270 pp, £10.95, July 1986, ISBN 0 7011 2978 6

For several weeks after 21 November 1974 most Irish people in Birmingham took cover. Even the most respected and entrenched felt unsafe. Outrage and grief overwhelmed the city and spread far beyond its boundaries. Twenty-one people had been done to death. Another 162 had been injured, many of them maimed for life. Most were young and working-class. Many were of Irish origin. Not a single one of them could by any stretch of the imagination be held responsible for or even sympathetic to British government policy in Northern Ireland.

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