May the Lord in His Mercy Be Kind to Belfast

by TonyParker (Author)

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  Paperback
  1994

  $4.41

  Tony Parker spent five months in the heart of Belfast talking to the people who make up this riven and self-destructive society. He interviewd priests and politicians, schoolchildren and students, bus drivers, doctors, nurses, lawyers, shop assistants, community workers, single mothers, soldiers and policemen. He earned the trust of prisoners, their wives, mothers and children, and terrorists (both Loyalists and Republicans) implacably committed to violence as their means of expression. This book is the result of these interviews.

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  Hardcover
  1993

  $5.80

  At last, after twenty years, Tony Parker - one of the world's most brilliant interviewers - has found his subject: Northern Ireland. He has interviewed a huge range of people - terrorists, police, the army, politicians, housewives, priests - and he has produced a devastating and deeply controversial book. As Father Brown says, the Irish 'never exploited you, or oppressed you. There's no single instance in history of us having invaded you: nor come to that of doing it to any other country in Europe, so far as I'm aware. But what have you done to us? Not only what we've never done to you, but much worse than you've ever had done to you by anyone else. Massacres, transportations, gaoling, starvation, driving us off our lands, dividing them up in parcels and giving them as presents and rewards to your ruling nobles and men at court. The history of the British in Ireland over hundred of years is beyond description it is, indeed it's almost beyond belief. It's an appalling story'.