An Escalation of Reasonableness
Conor Gearty: Northern Ireland, 6 September 2001
To Raise up a New Northern Ireland: Articles and Speeches 1998-2000
by David Trimble.
Belfast Press, 166 pp., £5.99, July 2001,0 9539287 1 3 Show More
by David Trimble.
Belfast Press, 166 pp., £5.99, July 2001,
“... died, and eight more men – Patsy O’Hara, Raymond McCreesh, Joe McDonnell, Martin Hurson, Kevin Lynch, Kieran Doherty, Thomas McElwee and Michael Devine – starved themselves to death in the months that followed. During that summer of 1981, the Northern Ireland crisis came closer than ever before or since to carnage. Levels of mob as well as of subversive ... ”