The Lost Revolution: The Story of the Official IRA and the Workers' Party
Publishing Details
The Lost Revolution: The Story of the Official IRA and the Workers' Party
By (Author) Brian Hanley
By (author) Scott Millar
Penguin Books Ltd
Penguin Books Ltd
28th June 2010
United Kingdom
Classifications
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
Revolutionary groups and movements
322.4209415
Physical Properties
688
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 41mm
469g
Description
The first in-depth telling of a account many people didn't want told- the story of the 'other' IRA The story of contemporary Ireland is inseparable from the story of the official republican movement, a story told here for the first time - from the clash between Catholic nationalist and socialist republicanism in the 1960s and '70s through the Workers' Party's eventual rejection of irredentism. A roll-call of influential personalities in the fields of politics, trade unionism and media - many still operating at the highest levels of Irish public life - passed though the ranks of this secretive movement, which never achieved its objectives but had a lasting influence on the landscape of Irish politics.
Reviews
A riveting tale * Tribune *
Excellent * Sunday Business Post *
An indispensable handbook * Irish Independent *
Hugely impressive * Irish Mail on Sunday *
Author Bio
Brian Hanley is a lecturer in Irish history at Queen's University, Belfast, and the author of A Guide to Irish Military Heritage and The IRA 1926-1936. Scott Millar is a journalist with the Irish Examiner.
