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Stephen Kelly - Edward Heath and the Early Years of the Northern Ireland Troubles, 1968-1975, Inbunden

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Edward Heath and the Early Years of the Northern Ireland Troubles, 1968-1975

'The Broken Emerald'

Av Stephen Kelly

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Stephen Kelly presents a biographical examination of Edward Heath’s publicand private attitude to Northern Ireland during his time as official leader ofthe Opposition (1965-1970 & 1974-1975) and UK prime minister (1970-1974). Withaccess to newly released archival files, this book radically challenges the currenthistoriography of Heath’s Northern Ireland policy.Readers are provided with a fascinating insight into some of the morecontroversial aspects of the UK government’s Northern Ireland policy during theearly years of the ‘Troubles’, including Heath’s attitude to the use of the so-called‘five techniques’ of torture against alleged Irish Republican paramilitaries; hispivotal role during the events leading to and after ‘Bloody Sunday’, on 30 January1972; and lastly, his private support, in principle, for a united Ireland.By examining the various topics under consideration, the book provides the readerwith nuanced insight into how Heath formulated and implemented his NorthernIreland policies, primarily in the political, military, and security realms.Northern Ireland was not simply a political preoccupation for Edward Heath. Overtime, the subject became quite personal, not least given that Heath survived, notone - but two assassination attempts on his life - mounted by Irish Republicanterrorists in 1974 and 1975. For the remainder of his life, Heath remained fearfulthat a third attempt on his life by Irish Republican paramilitaries would prove to bedeadly.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2026-11-12
  • Mått: 158 x 236 x 20 mm
  • Vikt: 560 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 272
  • Förlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • ISBN: 9781350634756
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Stephen Kelly is Professor of Modern Irish History and British-Irish Relations and Head of the School of Humanities at Liverpool Hope University, UK. He has published extensively in the field of Modern Irish History, British-Irish Relations, and the Northern Ireland Conflict. He is the author of Gerald Boland: A Biography (2024), 'A Failed Political Entity': Charles Haughey and the Northern Ireland Question, 1945-1992 (2016), Frank Aiken: Nationalist and Internationalist (edited collection) (2014), and Fianna Fáil, Partition and Northern Ireland, 1926-1971 (2013). Stephen Kelly’s first Bloomsbury book, Margaret Thatcher, the Conservative Party and the Northern Ireland Conflict, 1975-1990 (2021), was named a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Titles in 2022.

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Dr Stephen Kelly has long been one of the foremost chroniclers of the troubled and violent history of our two islands, with his meticulous trawling of the archives throwing fresh light on the conflict and challenging many received assumptions about it. In this respect, 'The Broken Emerald' is a new and important book, with Edward Heath’s controversial premiership (1970-1974) at its centre. The period spans the violent outbreak of the conflict from internment without trial and the torture of detainees to 'Bloody Sunday’ when paratroopers shot dead 13 innocent civil rights marchers: and from the abortive Cheyne Walk talks with the IRA to power sharing and the Sunningdale Agreement. With fresh and challenging insights from the archives, Dr Kelly provides us with a deeper understanding of the formative years of the conflict and how they inevitably affected its bloody evolution until peace finally came with the Good Friday Agreement of 1998.

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