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Backstop Land (Paperback, Flapped paperback)
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Backstop Land (Paperback, Flapped paperback)
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Loot Price R536
Discovery Miles 5 360
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'Funny, wise, entertaining and illuminating, this book is one of
the best things to come out of the Brexit saga' FINTAN O'TOOLE.
'Read this absorbing book to understand why, since 2016, we have
been playing with fire. There is no longer any excuse for
ignorance' MISHA GLENNY. Northern Ireland's frontier with the South
has been an invisible line since the peace agreement of 1998. Now
the battle over the UK's decision to leave the EU risks turning it
into a hard border. Yet few people in the rest of Britain (or
Ireland) know anything much about this most volatile part of an
increasingly disunited Kingdom. This book was written in the
feverish summer of 2019, in the aftermath of the 'New' IRA's murder
of Lyra McKee, with the fear and anxiety of Brexit looming over a
region in which paramilitary forces are still carrying out
beatings, and worse, even as the numbers of tourists drawn by the
Titanic and Game of Thrones continue to grow. The power-sharing
government created by the Good Friday Agreement has not met - a
bleak record in a long-running farce - in over 1,000 days. If it
wasn't for the wonderful weather you might wonder why anyone stayed
there at all. Glenn Patterson brings a lifetime's engagement with
Northern Ireland and a brilliant novelist's eye to an informative,
darkly entertaining portrait of a fragile country. Welcome to
Backstop Land.
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