{"product_id":"9781784975388","title":"The Troubles: Ireland's Ordeal 1966-1995 and the Search for Peace","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Troubles refers to a violent thirty-year conflict, at the heart of which lay the constitutional status of Northern Ireland. Over 3,000 people were killed on all sides, and many more damaged by a legacy that continued long past 1998. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAfter looking at the roots of Catholic discrimination of the Northern Irish state, Coogan points to Orange prejudice in housing, education and jobs and the lack of a Catholic outlet for peaceful protest. He argues that the war in the North started as a civil rights demonstration, but that radical Orange response soon turned protest into war. He takes a close look at Ian Paisley 'the great pornographer'; John Hume, the quiet peacemaker; Gerry Adams, gunman turned peacemaker; and Albert Reynolds, the first prime minister to insist on peace. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn this controversial volume, Coogan covers all parts of the war, from Bloody Sunday in 1972 to the Bobby Sands hunger strike. Although written from a nationalist viewpoint, Coogan has taken a complicated history and explained it simply, with grace and wit. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Head of Zeus","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47152525705456,"sku":"9781784975388","price":10.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781784975388_p0.jpg?v=1763726597","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781784975388","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}