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The First Northern Ireland Peace Process covers the various
attempts to end the 'Troubles' from 1972-76. These attempts
included secret talks with the Provisional IRA and a parallel
process to build a political consensus between the British and
Irish Governments and the main constitutional parties in Northern
Ireland.
Available in paperback for the first time, this book assesses the
strains within the 'Special Relationship' between London and
Washington and offers a new perspective on the limits and successes
of British influence during the Korean War. The interaction between
the main personalities on the British side - Attlee, Bevan,
Morrison, Churchill and Eden - and their American counterparts -
Truman, Acheson, Eisenhower and Dulles - are chronicled. By the end
of the war the British were concerned that it was the Americans,
rather than the Soviets, who were the greater threat to world
peace. British fears concerning the Korean War were not limited to
the diplomatic and military fronts these extended to the
'Manchurian Candidate' threat posed by returning prisoners of war
who had been exposed to communist indoctrination. The book is
essential reading for those interested in British and US foreign
policy and military strategy during the Cold War. -- .
This book provides an original assessment of the First World War in
Ireland and its consequences, the key to understanding the
complexities of the Irish nation today. Thomas Hennessey explores
how the War transformed the nature of the Irish and Ulster
questions from devolved self-government within the UK to a free
Irish republic outside the British Empire, considering such
influential figures as de Valera and Michael Collins, and issues
such as conscription. He examines both this process of
re-evaluation, and the vital question of the consequences for
Northern Ireland today.
This book provides an original assessment of the First World War in Ireland and its consequences, the key to understanding the complexities of the Irish nation today. Thomas Hennessey explores how the War transformed the nature of the Irish and Ulster questions from devolved self-government within the UK to a free Irish republic outside the British Empire, considering such influential figures as de Valera and Michael Collins, and issues such as conscription. He examines both this process of re-evaluation, and the vital question of the consequences for Northern Ireland today.
The book assesses the strains within the 'Special Relationship'
between London and Washington and offers a new perspective on the
limits and successes of British influence. The interaction between
the main personalities on the British side - Attlee, Bevan,
Morrison, Churchill and Eden - and their American counterparts -
Truman, Acheson, Eisenhower and Dulles - are chronicled. By the end
of the war the British were concerned that it was the Americans,
rather than the Soviets, who were the greater threat to world
peace. British fears concerning the Korean War were not limited to
the diplomatic and military fronts - these extended to the
'Manchurian Candidate' threat posed by returning prisoners of war
who had been exposed to communist indoctrination. The book is
essential reading for those interested in British and US foreign
policy and military strategy during the Cold War. -- .
In the 1920s, many black regional jazz bands were recorded and
became products of the entertainment industry, which was altering
the face of America from the handmade, homemade, homemade society
of the ninteenth century to the mass-produced, mass-consumed
technological culture of the twentieth century. Making use of the
files of African American newspapers, such as the Chicago Defender,
as well as published and archival oral history interviews,
Hennessey explores the contradictions that musicians often faced as
African Americans, as trained professional musicians, and as the
products of differing regional experiences. From Jazz to Swing
follows jazz from its beginnings in the regional black musics of
the turn of the century in New Orleans, Chicago, New York, and the
territories that make up the rest of the country.
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