The Troubles may have developed into a sectarian conflict, but the violence was sparked by a small band of leftists who wanted Derry in October 1968 to be a repeat of Paris in May 1968. Like their French comrades, Northern Ireland’s ‘sixty-eighters’ had assumed that street fighting would lead to political struggle.
The struggle that followed, however, was between communities rather than classes. In the divided society of Northern Ireland, the interaction of the global and the local that was the hallmark of 1968 had tragic consequences.
Drawing on a wealth of new sources and scholarship, Simon Prince’s timely new edition offers a fresh and compelling interpretation of the civil rights movement of 1968 and the origins of the Troubles. The authoritative and enthralling narrative weaves together accounts of high politics and grassroots protests, mass movements and individuals, and international trends and historic divisions, to show how events in Northern Ireland and around the world were interlinked during 1968.
A propos de l’auteur
Simon Prince is a Senior Lecturer in Canterbury Christ Church University’s School of Humanities. His research is concerned with how relations between the local, national, and transnational shaped protest movements and the production of violence, with civil breakdown in democracies, and with narratives of the Troubles. His publications include Belfast and Derry in Revolt: A New History of the Start of the Troubles (co-authored with Geoffrey Warner, 2011).
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