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This Troubled Land: Voices from Northern Ire... by Rucker, Patrick Mich Hardback
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- ISBN
- 0345446704
- EAN
- 9780345446701
- Publication Name
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- Type
- Hardback
- Release Title
- This Troubled Land: Voices from Northern Ireland on the Front ...
- Artist
- Rucker, Patrick Michael
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- Book Title
- This Troubled Land : Voices from Northern Ireland on the Front Lines of Peace
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Item Length
- 9.5 in
- Publication Year
- 2002
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1 in
- Genre
- Political Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
- Topic
- Cultural Heritage, General, Europe / Ireland
- Item Weight
- 18.2 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.3 in
- Number of Pages
- 240 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0345446704
ISBN-13
9780345446701
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1917873
Product Key Features
Book Title
This Troubled Land : Voices from Northern Ireland on the Front Lines of Peace
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2002
Topic
Cultural Heritage, General, Europe / Ireland
Genre
Political Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
18.2 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2002-277770
Reviews
An American journalist steps lightly and perceptively in these vignettes of Northern Ireland as it endeavors to bring peace into its everyday life...poignant and disturbing.
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
320.9416
Synopsis
When American journalist Patrick Michael Rucker learned of the Northern Ireland peace accord signed on Good Friday, 1998, he knew he had to return. Rucker had last seen this torn country in 1991, when "the troubles" raged at a fever pitch of daily bombings and murder. Could such a violently divided society truly live in peace? What had changed? In the fall of 1998, Rucker returned to Belfast to see for himself, and this stark, gritty, spellbinding book is his report. A fearless and brilliant reporter, Rucker sought out victims and killers, leading IRA terrorists and the loyalist counterparts bent on assassinating them, British soldiers and innocent bystanders swept helplessly into an endless undeclared war. Rucker watched as Michelle Williamson chained herself outside a prison to protest the release of the IRA prisoner whose bomb killed her innocent parents. He visited the hospital room of Liam Cairns, a young man abducted by an IRA "punishment gang" and beaten beyond recognition. He tracked down the children of Jean McConville, a widow abducted and killed decades ago for aiding a British solidera tragic mistake that the IRA finally was ready to admit. There are scores of encounters like these in the pages ofThis Troubled Land, shocking portraits of a society caught in a nightmare of rage and despair. But as Rucker discovers, despair has now begun to give way to a different moodnot forgiveness and reconciliation, exactly, for the wounds are still too raw, but a weary longing for closure. Rucker sees glimmers of hope in a Protestant mother murmuring an apology to a Catholic widow, in talk of forgetting the past, in the jarring vision of a glass-roofed double-decker bus carrying tourists down Belfast's Madrid Street, where just a few years ago bullets flew between the Catholics and the Protestants. In vivid, electrifying prose, Rucker captures the soul of a country at a critical juncture, a country finally putting the darkest moments of its past behind and daring to look ahead.
LC Classification Number
DA990.U46R84 2002
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