Hesitant Comrades

Hesitant Comrades

Author: Geoffrey Bell

Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780745336602

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The first published history of the troubled relationship between the British working class and the movement for Irish independence covering the revolutionary period of 1916-21 .


The Men Will Talk to Me

The Men Will Talk to Me

Author: Síobhra Aiken

Publisher: Merrion Press

Published: 2018-05-14

Total Pages: 357

ISBN-13: 1785371665

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The Men Will Talk to Me is a collection of interviews conducted and recorded by famed Irish republican revolutionary Ernie O’Malley during the 1940s and 1950s. The interviews were carried out with survivors of the four Northern Divisions of the IRA, chief among them Frank Aiken, Peadar O’Donnell and Paddy McLogan, who offer fascinating insights into Ulster’s centrality in the War of Independence and the slide towards Civil War. The title refers to the implicit trust that shadows these interviews, earned through Ernie O’Malley’s reputation as a fearsome military commander in the revolutionary movement – the veterans interviewed divulge details to O’Malley which they wouldn’t have disclosed to even their closest family members. Startlingly direct, the issues covered include the mobilization of the Dundalk Volunteers for the 1916 Rising, the events of Bloody Sunday (1920), the Belfast Pogroms, and the planning of historical escapes from the Curragh and Kilkenny Gaol. The Men Will Talk to Me is an insightful and painstaking reflection of the horror of the Irish War of Independence and Civil War; in words resolute and faltering, the physical and psychological debts of the revolutionary mindset – those of hardened Pro- and Anti-Treaty veterans – are fiercely apparent.


Work on Myth

Work on Myth

Author: Hans Blumenberg

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 1988-03-18

Total Pages: 727

ISBN-13: 0262521334

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In this rich examination of how we inherit and transform myths, Hans Blumenberg continues his study of the philosophical roots of the modern world. Work on Myth is in five parts. The first two analyze the characteristics of myth and the stages in the West's work on myth, including long discussions of such authors as Freud, Joyce, Cassirer, and Valéry. The latter three parts present a comprehensive account of the history of the Prometheus myth, from Hesiod and Aeschylus to Gide and Kafka. This section includes a detailed analysis of Goethe's lifelong confrontation with the Prometheus myth, which is a unique synthesis of "psychobiography" and history of ideas. Work on Myth is included in the series Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought, edited by Thomas McCarthy.


Bulgaria

Bulgaria

Author: Vesselin Dimitrov

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 149

ISBN-13: 0415267293

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book provides a comprehensive survey of Bulgaria's transition to democracy from its position as perhaps the most stable communist regime in Eastern Europe.


Young Women Against Apartheid

Young Women Against Apartheid

Author: Emily Bridger

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 1847012639

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Provides a new perspective on the struggle against apartheid, and contributes to key debates in South African history, gender inequality, sexual violence, and the legacies of the liberation struggle.


The Twilight of Unionism

The Twilight of Unionism

Author: Geoffrey Bell

Publisher: Verso Books

Published: 2022-11-29

Total Pages: 283

ISBN-13: 1839766948

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The fissures that have split the United Kingdom in the last decades have run through Northern Ireland. Since the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, the fragile peace has been threatened by Brexit, the rise and fall of the D U P and the failure of power-sharing arrangement between the main parties at the Stormont Assembly. As the very future of Northern Ireland is now in jeopardy, will Britain face up to its imperial legacy and address the deep inequalities that remain in the aftermath of the Troubles, and the uneven development of the 'New Ireland'? Geoffrey Bell offers an insightful history of Ulster Unionism from the 1960s to the present day. In recent years this has come to a crisis point. What is the future of the Union in the post-Brexit reality? How will the relationship between Northern Ireland and Westminster develop? Can the United Kingdom survive?


Leninism

Leninism

Author: Joseph Stalin

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-04-21

Total Pages: 574

ISBN-13: 1351791931

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Translated from the Russian in 1928, this and the second volume of the same title give an invaluable picture of what the Russian leader Joseph Stalin understood by Leninism. Building on the pamphlet Foundations of Leninism, (which forms the first part of this book) the work presents a unified and complete work on the problems of Leninism and socialist construction as they were manifested in the 1920s, as well as discussion of the October Revolution and the relationship of the USSR and the West in the years following the First World War.


Birth of the Border

Birth of the Border

Author: Cormac Moore

Publisher: Merrion Press

Published: 2019-09-29

Total Pages: 359

ISBN-13: 1785372955

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The 1921 partition of Ireland had huge ramifications for almost all aspects of Irish life and was directly responsible for hundreds of deaths and injuries, with thousands displaced from their homes and many more forced from their jobs. Two new justice systems were created; the effects on the major religions were profound, with both jurisdictions adopting wholly different approaches; and major disruptions were caused in crossing the border, with invasive checks and stops becoming the norm. And yet, many bodies remained administered on an all-Ireland basis. The major religions remained all-Ireland bodies. Most trade unions maintained a 32-county presence, as did most sports, trade bodies, charities and other voluntary groups. Politically, however, the new jurisdictions moved further and further apart, while socially and culturally there were differences as well as links between north and south that remain to this day. Very little has been written on the actual effects of partition, the-day-to-day implications, and the complex ways that society, north and south, was truly and meaningfully affected. Birth of the Border: The Impact of Partition in Ireland is the most comprehensive account to date on the far-reaching effects of the partitioning of Ireland.