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The Wounded and the Dead
Margaret Thatcher, the IRA Hunger Strikes, and the Northern Ireland Conflict
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
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In 1980, Irish republican prisoners in the H-blocks at the Maze prison went on hunger strike. These events, which would go on to reshape the political landscape of Northern Ireland and dramatically alter the British government's approach to the conflict, have typically been seen through one of two opposing lenses: the Thatcher Government's war against Irish republican terrorism within the UK, or as emblematic of a perennial nationalist struggle to free Ireland from British colonial rule.Drawing on all available archival releases, firsthand testimony, newspaper reports, and personal interviews, The Wounded and the Dead offers a more nuanced interrogation of the events and their legacy. It reveals the strategic thinking within the British government, the IRA leadership's unpreparedness for electoral politics, and Irish Government designs to end partition, thereby offering fresh insights into Margaret Thatcher's evolving approach to Northern Ireland, the internal dynamics of the republican movement, and the contrasting political strategies of Charles Haughey and Garret FitzGerald.This is a deeply researched and powerfully argued work of history that confronts the painful dilemmas of violence, self-determination, and negotiation at the heart of the Northern Ireland conflict. It shows how the hunger strikes - amid political instability in Dublin and Margaret Thatcher's rise to power - foreclosed the possibility of a constitutional settlement that excluded republicans, forcing the conflict into a new and more political phase. Tracing the diplomatic fallout across Washington, Dublin, and the Vatican, it reveals how a prison protest with little popular support crystallised in the election of IRA prisoner Bobby Sands as a Westminster MP and subsequent death on hunger strike - transforming the republican movement's fortunes and international image.
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This book is a wide-ranging and innovative study of Israeli-Lebanese relations from the birth of the Jewish state in 1948 to the Israel-Lebanon War of 2006. Israel’s relationship with its Arab neighbours is a subject of perennial interest in the Middle East. The relationship between Israel and Lebanon has taken numerous forms since the establishment of the Jewish state and the chapters in this timely and important volume provide a comprehensive, detailed and informative analysis of the evolving ties between the two countries up to the present day. The contributors are drawn from numerous disciplines in the social sciences and humanities; and contributions range from the impact of the Arab-Israeli conflict on the Jews of Lebanon, to the role of external powers (the EU, the US and Arab world) on Israeli-Lebanese relations, as well as the legal mechanisms regulating the bilateral political relationship to the Palestinian Refugee problem as a factor in Israeli-Lebanese relations.This book was published as a special issue of Israel Affairs.
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This book is a wide-ranging and innovative study of Israeli-Lebanese relations from the birth of the Jewish state in 1948 to the Israel-Lebanon War of 2006. Israel’s relationship with its Arab neighbours is a subject of perennial interest in the Middle East. The relationship between Israel and Lebanon has taken numerous forms since the establishment of the Jewish state in 1948 and the chapters in this timely and important volume provide a comprehensive, detailed and informative analysis of the evolving ties between the two countries up to the present day. The contributors are drawn from numerous disciplines in the social sciences and humanities; and contributions range from the impact of the Arab-Israeli conflict on the Jews of Lebanon, to the role of external powers (the EU, the US and Arab world) on Israeli-Lebanese relations, as well as the legal mechanisms regulating the bilateral political relationship to the Palestinian Refugee problem as a factor in Israeli-Lebanese relations.This book was published as a special issue of Israel Affairs.
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This candidly written autobiography of Sir Michael Kerr chronicles the life of one of Britains most prominent judges of the 70s and 80s from his Continental childhood up to his career in the Court of Appeal and beyond. In the first part of his memoir,the author traces his family history and Germanic roots. His father, Alfred Kerr, was a well-known dramatic critic and essayist, whose writings were widely known throughout Germany from the turn of the century and have recently seen a resurrection, 50 years after his death, as related in the last chapter of the book. But because of the fame of his anti-Nazi writings and broadcasts, the Kerrs were forced to flee from Berlin as early as 3 March 1933, when Hitler came to power. The author and his sister Judith, later to become a famous author of childrens books, had a relatively happy cosmopolitan childhood in Zurich, Paris, Nice and ultimately England. But their parents lives remained on the edge of poverty and sometimes despair and there was never again a family home. The memoirs then tell of his years at Aldenham School and the beginnings of Cambridge, and of his assimilation into the English way of life.They relate the story of his internment as an enemy alien in 1940 and of his subsequent release and service as a pilot in the Royal Air Force until the end of World War II. The author then returned to Cambridge to finish his law degree and was urged to go the Bar. The later chapters of this autobiography are mainly devoted to the law. They recount the authors career as a leading commercial Junior and then a Silk, his initial hesitations about the Bench, but ultimately culminating in his appointment as a Lord Justice of Appeal. He describes the Bar of the post-war decades and is frank about the frustrations and disappointments of his career. He also provides insights into the oddities of the English legal system, but maintaining throughout his firm belief in the importance of an independent Bar.