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Author : Gareth Mulvenna
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Gangs
ISBN : 9781781383254
In the the early 1970s in Belfast, many young members of loyalist youth gangs known as 'Tartans' converged with fledgling paramilitary groups such as the Red Hand Commando, Ulster Volunteer Force, and Young Citizen Volunteers.
Author : Billy Hutchinson,Gareth Mulvenna
Publisher : Merrion Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781785373473
Growing up in the Shankill area of Belfast and living through the sectarian turmoil of the late 1960s, Billy Hutchinson joined the UVF in the early 1970s. In 1974, at the age of just 19, he was sentenced to life in prison, and it was in the cages of Long Kesh that he first came under the influence of loyalist icon Gusty Spence. Hutchinson spent much of the 1980s as overall Commanding Officer of UVF/Red Hand Commando prisoners, and upon his release, became involved with the recently established Progressive Unionist Party. As an authentic link between the UVF and the PUP, he was at the forefront of negotiations that led to the Belfast Agreement and was the UVF’s point of contact during the weapons decommissioning programme. Written with candour and honesty, this is a lively first-hand account of an extraordinary life and reveals previously hidden episodes of both the Northern Ireland Troubles and the high-profile negotiations that led to the Belfast Agreement of 1998. rom Tartan gang member to leading loyalist paramilitary, and from progressive unionist politician to respected Belfast City Councillor, My Life in Loyalism is Billy Hutchinson’s remarkable story.
Author : Aaron Edwards
Publisher : Merrion Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781785371066
UVF: Behind the Mask is the gripping new history of the Ulster Volunteer Force from its post-1965 incarnation to the present day. Aaron Edwards blends rigorous research with unprecedented access to leading members of the UVF to unearth the startling inner-workings of one of the world’s oldest and most ruthless paramilitary groups. Through interviews with high-profile UVF leaders, such as Billy Mitchell, David Ervine, Billy Wright, Billy Hutchinson and Gary Haggarty, as well as their loyalist rivals including Johnny Adair, Edwards reveals the grisly details behind their sadistic torture and murder techniques and their litany of high-profile atrocities: McGurk’s Bar, the Dublin and Monaghan bombings, the Miami Showband massacre and the Shankill Butchers’ serial-killing spree, amongst others. Edwards’ life and career has led him to the centre of the UVF’s long, dark underbelly; in this defining work he offers a comprehensive and authoritative study of an armed group that continues to play a pivotal role in Northern Irish society.
Author : Seamus Glas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1655923447
Real events through the eyes of a 16-year-old Glasgo who like impetuous youth from his generation, join a movement in defense of a Protestant loyalist cause. The tartan clans, the footmen of the Orange [Scots Irish based -] Vigilanties [Soon to be Paramilitaries] were committed to fulfilling their wishes. Like many, he succumbs to the powerful clan membership and innocent gets mixed with politics in Northern Ireland. An organization of the Protestant community touts the Tartan Clans, with their case against the police [RUC] and the British Army, orchestrating skirmishes throughout Belfast. Republican civil war now threatens the loyalists who are in need of arms to defend themselves. Enter the youth of the bold tartan men of Ulster. The author tells it like it is, in a compelling but poignant story of events that show a glimpse behind this scene from the local police station in handling this chapter of the Ulster troubles.One war after another, finally to settle down after seventy years with a woman, McGovern found what he always looked for. An emotionally low maintenance woman named Mary. He brought forward his overdue De-mob date in the interest of survival in order to enjoy what's left of his life. In addition, the future of the village, how they would live, love, and the end of his last days. The problem is? how to stretch the arms he had intercepted and knowledge of from the paramilitaries: It's one thing swallowing the loyalists' revenge, where the law is still respected by their law-abiding community. But what if that included a rouge Provo arms dealer, which you did on a number.
Author : Paul Andell,John Pitts
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2023-02-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030996581
This handbook brings together cutting-edge research from key contributors on the rapidly expanding and fast-changing field of UK youth gangs. It examines the contours of the academic debates, describes and explains the origins and evolution of violent street gangs in the UK against a backdrop of globalization, and discusses the factors surrounding the emergence of these gangs in each of the four UK nations and some English regions. It also examines the relationship between gangs and wider issues relating to gender, ethnicity, drug distribution and organised crime. It critically assesses the potential and limitations of ‘Public Health’ approaches to gang violence reduction and the government’s policy responses to violent street gangs in the UK. Providing a broad examination of the latest UK gangs research, with international comparisons, it is essential reading for undergraduate and post-graduate students, in criminology, sociology, social policy and law, policy makers at local and central government level, and practitioners in the fields of law, policing, youth work, social work, housing and workers in dedicated voluntary sector organizations.
Author : Richard Gallagher
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2023-03-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783031234361
This book presents extensive research into the cinematic representation of the British-identifying Protestant, unionist and loyalist community in Northern Ireland and is the first time such comprehensive analysis has been produced. Gallagher’s research traces the history of the community’s representation in cinema from the emergence of depictions of both nationalist and unionist communities in social-realist dramas in 1980s British and Irish cinema to today, through periods such as those focused on violent paramilitaries in the 1990s and irreverent comedy after the Northern Ireland peace process. The book addresses the perception that the Irish nationalist community has been depicted more frequently and favourably than unionism in films about the period of conflict known as “The Troubles”. Often argued to be the result of an Irish nationalist bias within Hollywood, Gallagher argues that there are other inherent and systemic reasons for this cinematic deficit.
Author : Allen Feldman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2008-03-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226240800
"A sophisticated and persuasive late-modernist political analysis that consistently draws the reader into the narratives of the author and those of the people of violence in Northern Ireland to whom he talked. . . . Simply put, this book is a feast for the intellect"—Thomas M. Wilson, American Anthropologist "One of the best books to have been written on Northern Ireland. . . . A highly imagination and significant book. Formations of Violence is an important addition to the literature on political violence."—David E. Schmitt, American Political Science Review
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780755600281
Accounts of the relationships between states and terrorist organizations in the Cold War era have long been shaped by speculation, a lack of primary sources and even conspiracy theories. In the last few years, however, things have evolved rapidly. Using a wide range of case studies including the British State and Loyalist Paramilitaries in Northern Ireland, as well as the United States and Nicaragua, this book sheds new light on the relations between state and terrorist actors, allowing for a fresh and much more insightful assessment of the contacts, dealings, agreements and collusion with terrorist organizations undertaken by state actors on both sides of the Iron Curtain. This book presents the current state of research and provides an assessment of the nature, motives, effects, and major historical shifts of the relations between individual states and terrorist organizations. The articles collected demonstrate that these state-terrorism relationships were not only much more ambiguous than much of the older literature had suggested but are, in fact, crucial for the understanding of global political history in the Cold War era.
Author : Toby Harnden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 034098094X
South Armagh was firstdescribed as "Bandit Country" by Merlyn Rees when he was Northern Ireland's Secretary of State, and for nearly three decades it has been the most dangerous posting in the world for soldiers. Toby Harnden has stripped away the myth and propaganda associated with South Armagh to produce one of the most compelling and important books of the subject. Drawing on secret documents and interviews in South Armagh s recent history, he tells the inside story of how the IRA came close to bringing the British state to its knees. For the first time, the identities of the men behind the South Quay and Manchester bombings are revealed. Packed with new information, "Bandit Country" penetrates the IRA and the security forces in South Armagh."
Author : Huw Bennett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009449083
When Operation Banner was launched in 1969 civil war threatened to break out in Northern Ireland and spread over the Irish sea. Uncivil War reveals the full story of how the British army acted to save Great Britain from disaster but, in so doing, condemned the people of Northern Ireland to protracted, grinding conflict.
Author : Benjamin Roberts
Publisher : Avenue Books
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781905575114
Author : Michael Stone
Publisher : Kings Road Publishing
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-31
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781843589723
Michael Stone was born in East Belfast in 1955. In 1988 he was sentenced to 800 years in prison. He served twelve years in the Maze prison before being released under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement. He is now an artist, and proponent of the peace process.
Author : Véronique Altglas
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030969509
Northern Ireland presents a fundamental challenge for the sociology of religion – how do religious beliefs, attitudes and identities relate to practices, violence and conflict? In other words, what does religion do? These interrogations are at the core of this book. It is the first critical and comprehensive review of the ways in which the social sciences have interpreted religion’s significance in Northern Ireland. In particular, it examines the shortcomings of existing interpretations and, in turn, suggests alternative lines of thinking for more robust and compelling analyses of the role(s) religion might play in Northern Irish culture and politics. Through, and beyond, the case of Northern Ireland, the second objective of this book is to outline a critical agenda for the social study of religion, which has theoretical and methodological underpinnings. Finally, this work engages with epistemological issues which never have been addressed as such in the Northern Irish context: how do conflict settings affect the research undertaken on religion, when religion is an object of political and violent contentions? By analysing the scope for objective and critical thinking in such research context, this critical essay intends to contribute to a sociology of the sociology of religion.
Author : Jeffrey Kopstein,Mark Lichbach,Stephen E. Hanson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 613 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780521135740
Twelve in-depth country studies explore how the concepts of interests, identities and institutions shape the politics of nations and regions.
Author : Ian S. Wood
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2006-05-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780748626878
Sectarian murder, torture, bloody power struggles and racketeering are what for many define their image of the Ulster Defence Association. Yet as Northern Ireland's Troubles worsened in 1971 and 1972, it emerged with a mass membership to defend Loyalist areas against the IRA and to uphold the Union with Britain. By 1974 it was able to defy the will of an elected government and it went on to formulate political strategies for working-class Loyalism.Ian S. Wood uses his specialist knowledge as well as extensive interviews to recount these events and the ruthless war waged by the UDA on the nationalist community. He explores issues such as the UDA's descent into criminality and its relationship with the 'secret war' conducted by Britain's undercover services and he assesses what impact the organisation had on the outcome of Europe's worst political and ethnic conflict between 1945 and the break-up of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia after 1990.