Making Sense of the Troubles: A History of the Northern Ireland Conflict

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or redistribute changed versions of this for other than your personal use without express written permission. Faulkner accepted the white paper as a basis for negotiation, though his party’s council endorsed his line without enthusiasm. A fresh wave of nationalist indignation followed publication of the report into Bloody Sunday carried out by the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Widgery.

But although this was a short-term setback for the republicans their campaign of violence went on regardless. We cannot bow the knee to these traitors in Whitehall, nor to those offspring of the Vatican who walk the corrupted corridors of power. David McVea spent 28 years as a teacher of history and politics in a state - and therefore Protestant - grammar school in north Belfast.On the republican side the IRA gradually changed the emphasis from open confrontations and car bombings to more carefully planned sniping attacks, together with bombing attacks in England. To learn about the history of Northern Ireland’s sectarian divide and about how both communities are recovering, read these five books.

Whitelaw moved quickly to improve his relations with nationalists and republicans by releasing a number of internees and making other conciliatory moves.In October Faulkner won the support of his party’s standing committee for powersharing with the SDLP, though only by the narrow majority of 132 votes to 105. The very fact that the meeting took place, however, was of great psychological importance in both political and paramilitary circles, being regularly cited in support of the argument that Britain might someday not rule out doing a deal with violent groupings.