"A book equal to the pity and terror of its subject, Padraig O'Malley simplifies nothing and scrutinizes everything. This is not only a heartfelt narrative but a sustained exercise of moral and political intelligence".--Seamus Heaney
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"A book equal to the pity and terror of its subject, Padraig O'Malley simplifies nothing and scrutinizes everything. This is not only a heartfelt narrative but a sustained exercise of moral and political intelligence".--Seamus Heaney
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Add this copy of Biting at the Grave: the Irish Hunger Strikes and the to cart. $28.42, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1990 by Beacon Pr.
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Peter Marlow (Dust Jacket photograph) Very good in good jacket. xiv, 330 pages. Endpaper map. Chronology of Events. Notes. Glossary. Sources. Bibliography. Index. Dated inscription from author on title-page. DJ stained inside and has slight wear and soiling. Cover okay. Padraig O'Malley (born 1942 in Dublin, Ireland) is an Irish peacemaker, author and professor at the University of Massachusetts Boston who specializes in the problems of divided societies, such as Northern Ireland. He has written extensively on these subjects and has been actively involved in promoting dialogue among representatives of differing factions. O'Malley spent 20 years involved with the conflict in Northern Ireland. Working with all the political parties, he convened the Amherst Conference on Northern Ireland, the Airlie House Conference, and co-convened the Arniston Conference with the government of South Africa. In 1992, he participated in bringing some South African figures to Boston, Massachusetts for a meeting with representatives of the factions in Northern Ireland. In 1996, helped arrange a second such meeting, in Belfast. In 1997, the Arniston Conference convened all the key parties of The Northern Irish peace process in South Africa to meet with Nelson Mandela. Included in the meeting from Northern Ireland were Martin McGuinness, David Trimble and Peter Robinson. Seven weeks after the conference, Sinn Féin declared a cease fire that paved the way for the Good Friday Agreement to share power. Trimble and John Hume, leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party, were awarded the Nobel prize for peace. Derived from a Kirkus review: O'Malley presents a moving, informed telling of the hunger strikers in Northern Ireland. Between March 1 and October 3, 1981, ten convicted terrorists starved themselves to death in the prisons of Northern Ireland in the hope of pressuring the English government into granting them political status. The first to die, IRA member Bobby Sands, was front-page news worldwide. O'Malley traces the background of Sands, the hunger strike (a vintage Irish custom), and the reactions of the various governments--each with a skeleton, so to speak, in the closet. The English government had previously granted political status to some IRA members; the government in the Republic of Ireland, although officially concerned with the rights of the Catholic minority in the North, banned the IRA and its sympathizers from radio and TV. O'Malley arranged interviews with some of the families of the hunger strikers--though Bobby Sands' family is significantly absent--and quote extensively from all the different reactions to the deaths. A familiar story told, again, once more with feeling.
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Very good in Good jacket. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. xiv, 330 p. Endpaper map. Chronology. Notes. Glossary. Sources. Bibliography. Index. Inscribed by author on title page. DJ has some wear and soiling. From WIkipedia: "Padraig O'Malley (born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1942) is a peacemaker, noted author and professor at the University of Massachusetts Boston who specializes in the problems of divided societies, such as South Africa and Northern Ireland. He has written extensively on these subjects and has been actively involved in promoting dialogue among representatives of differing factions. O'Malley spent 20 years involved with the conflict in Northern Ireland. O'Malley was also a member of the Opshal Commission, which authored the report "Northern Ireland: A Citizens' Inquiry" (Belfast, 1993) At the University of Massachusetts Boston, he is the John Joseph Moakley Professor of International Peace and Reconciliation at the John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy Studies; a Senior Fellow in the Center for Development and Democracy; and the founder and editor of the New England Journal of Public Policy, a semiannual publication of the McCormack Graduate School."
Add this copy of Biting at the Grave: the Irish Hunger Strikes and the to cart. $70.53, new condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1991 by Beacon Press.
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