How the Troubles Came to Northern Ireland

by Peter Rose

Book Overview

In a new book about Northern Ireland historian Peter Rose argues that if Harold Wilson's government in the late sixties had pursued a different policy the province might have been spared The Troubles. Wilson had promised the Catholics that they would be granted their civil rights. However, new evidence suggests that Westminster was deliberately gagged to prevent MPs demanding that the Stormont administration ended discrimination in the province. Had...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312224346
• ISBN13: 9780312224349
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.8"