On 14 August 1969, at the age of 14, Michael McCann and his family
fled their home. Life changed totally for the McCanns and the
entire nationalist community. Thousands of innocent people vacated
their homes, driven out by the initial pogrom and then by the
ongoing campaign of expulsion by loyalist violence and
intimidation. The British army occupation and the continuing
violence utterly devastated communities on a monumental scale.
Burnt Out: How the Troubles Began, shows how the truth became one
of the first casualties of the horrific events of August 1969. It
examines the prominent role of state forces and the unionist
government in the violence that erupted in Derry and Belfast and
assesses how and why the violence began and generated three decades
of subsequent brutality. Against a mountain of contrary evidence,
many still choose to blame the violence on the commemoration of the
Easter Rising in 1966 and the efforts of the nationalist community
to defend themselves on two hellish August nights in the late
summer of 1969. Burnt Out: How the Troubles Began, is essential
reading for anybody interested in the outbreak and causes of 'the
Troubles'.
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