Northern Ireland - History, Ireland - Politics & Government

Through the Minefield

Name: Through the Minefield
Author: David McKittrick
ISBN: 9780856406522

by David McKittrick

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Overview

This is an extraordinary account of an extraordinary time in Northern Ireland's history. As the prize-winning Ireland correspondent of the London Independent, David McKittrick has reported on the violence and political turbulence since 1986, but writes that the years 1996 to 1999 'show the perils of prediction, for no writer of fiction could have dared to construct a plot filled with such incident and commotion. No one could have forecast all the high spots and low points, all that hope and all that tragedy.'. "Covering the rollercoaster ride of hope, despair and back to hope again as Northern Ireland inched towards a new political framework - and including major events, from the IRA attack on Canary Wharf to the murder of solicitor Rosemary Nelson - this distinguished collection presents the best of McKittrick's journalism during these watershed years.

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McKittrick (Fight for Peace; Despatches from Belfast), an award-winning Irish correspondent for The Independent, annotates three years of his column, documenting the war of nerves waged in the struggle for peace in Northern Ireland. McKittrick has a nationalist bias, as do most who cover this topic, but he coherently and equitably explains the politics operating on both fronts. His columns and annotations state the news of the day without alluding to the future, framing the changes in attitude in Ulster, Ireland, and England through elections, bombings, and political posturing. He understands that the peace process in Northern Ireland is completely different from the struggles that gave Ireland independence. With the recent wave of titles by historians and journalists trying to document and explain the peace process, this book is evidence that journalists are closer to the facts. Recommended for public libraries and strongly recommended for academic libraries.--Robert C. Moore, Raytheon, Sudbury, MA Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.\

Paul Bew

This is a magnificent work...it is as much of a monument as any book can be to those who lost their lives in this dirty war.
—Time Literary Supplement