The Year of Chaos
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Sell my copyAuthor: Malachi O'Doherty
Title: The Year of Chaos
Binding: Paperback
Number Of Pages: 384
Release Date: 2022-11-01
Details: In the eleven months between August 1971 and July 1972, Northern Ireland experienced its worst year of violence. No future year of the Troubles experienced such death and destruction.
The 'year of chaos' began with the introduction of internment of IRA suspects without trial, which created huge disaffection in the Catholic communities and provoked an escalation of violence. This led to the British government taking full control of Northern Ireland and negotiating directly with the IRA leadership. Operation Motorman, the invasion of barricaded no-go areas in Belfast and Derry, then dampened down the violence a year later.
During this whole period, Malachi O'Doherty was a young reporter in Belfast, working in the city and returning home at night to a no-go area behind the barricades where the streets were patrolled by armed IRA men.
Drawing on interviews, personal recollections and archival research, O'Doherty takes readers on a journey through the events of that terrible year - from the devastation of Bloody Sunday and Bloody Friday to the talks between leaders that failed to break the deadlock.
EAN: 9781838951245
Package Dimensions: Height: 7.75 Inches, Length: 5 Inches, Weight: 0.77823178486 Pounds, Width: 1.2 Inches
