Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Northern Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Ulster Year Book
Author: The Catholics Of Ulster
Author: Marianne ElliottPublisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 9780465019045
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
Few European communities are more soaked in their bloody history than the Catholics of Ulster, but the Catholic and Protestant communities' faulty understanding of their past has had ruinous effects on the lives of its inhabitants. Marianne Elliott has written a coherent, credible, and absorbing history of the Ulster Catholics. The whole sorry sweep of the province's history is covered-from its early medieval origins to the tenuous but holding Good Friday Agreement of 1998 and formation of an all-Ulster legislature.
The Plantation of Ulster
Author: Jonathan BardonPublisher: Gill Books
ISBN: 9780717147380
Category : English
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
The Plantation of Ulster followed the Flight of the Earls when the lands of the departed Gaelic Lords were forfeited to the Crown. Bardon's history is the first major, accessible survey of this key event in British and Irish history in a lifetime.
Ulster Yearbook
Author: The Statesman's Year-book
Author: The Statesman's Year-Book
Author: M. EpsteinPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230270573
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1565
Book Description
The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.
The Statesman's Year-Book
Author: J. Scott-KeltiePublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230270530
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1550
Book Description
The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.
Northern Ireland Yearbook
Author: Michael McKernanPublisher: Bmf Business Services
ISBN: 9780953767298
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
The Northern Ireland Yearbook is an invaluable resource for anyone who has any kind of interest in Northern Ireland. Users will find expertly prepared political and economic commentary along with a wealth of information on various groups and associations; social activity; tourism; history; and the media and entertainment.
The Statesman's Year-Book
Author: S. SteinbergPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230270859
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1637
Book Description
The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.
Deadly Beat
Author: Richard LathamPublisher: Random House
ISBN: 1780577559
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
'You go to work and you might be shot dead. You imagine being horribly maimed in a bomb blast. You come home and wonder if you'll be shot at the door. You go to bed with a revolver on the bedside cabinet. At times you wonder if this is really part of the UK' This was the world inhabited by Richard Latham during his service with the Royal Ulster Constabulary – a force that remains an institution of contradictions and intrigue to many outside observers. Considered by some to be one of the finest police forces in the world, its officers are looked upon by others as the evil storm-troopers of Unionism and the British Goverment. The RUC is now a force undergoing sweeping change in response to Republican demands, yet for 30 years it stood alongside the British Army in a war with Republicans that killed over 300 policemen and injured thousands more. For 14 years Latham, an Englishman, served as a police officer, both in England and in Ulster, transferring from the English Special Branch to the RUC in 1991. Deadly Beat is his raw and hard-hitting story, giving a unique insight into the grim reality of policing Ulster. Latham charts the dedication and restraint of officers who witnessed their colleagues die, yet were obliged to play within the rules of the law - rules so loaded in favour of the killers that comparatively few were brought to justice. This book exposes incidents of racism and religious bias experienced by the author himself. It looks behind the scenes to reveal the extremes of behaviour, alcohol abuse, womanising and petty corruption that the heady cocktail of stress, big pay packets and a sense of 'living for the day' bring to many of the men who don the RUC uniform. Deadly Beat is an open, warts-and-all view of the RUC by a man who makes intuitive comparisons between policing on the mainland and serving in Ulster.