Author: Richard S. Grayson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1441170065
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
This is the story of men from either side of West Belfast's sectarian divide during the Great War. Richard S. Grayson follows the volunteers of the 36th and 16th divisions who fought on the Somme and side-by-side at Messines, recovering the forgotten West Belfast men throughout the armed forces, from the retreat at Mons to the defeat of Germany and life post-war. In so doing, he tells a new story which challenges popular perceptions of the war and explains why remembrance remains so controversial in Belfast today.
Belfast Boys
Author: Richard S. Grayson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1441170065
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
This is the story of men from either side of West Belfast's sectarian divide during the Great War. Richard S. Grayson follows the volunteers of the 36th and 16th divisions who fought on the Somme and side-by-side at Messines, recovering the forgotten West Belfast men throughout the armed forces, from the retreat at Mons to the defeat of Germany and life post-war. In so doing, he tells a new story which challenges popular perceptions of the war and explains why remembrance remains so controversial in Belfast today.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1441170065
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
This is the story of men from either side of West Belfast's sectarian divide during the Great War. Richard S. Grayson follows the volunteers of the 36th and 16th divisions who fought on the Somme and side-by-side at Messines, recovering the forgotten West Belfast men throughout the armed forces, from the retreat at Mons to the defeat of Germany and life post-war. In so doing, he tells a new story which challenges popular perceptions of the war and explains why remembrance remains so controversial in Belfast today.
A Belfast Child
Author: John Chambers
Publisher: John Blake
ISBN: 1789462754
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
John Chambers was brought up on Belfast's notorious Loyalist Glencairn estate, during the height of the Troubles. From an early age he witnessed violence, hatred and horror as Northern Ireland tore itself apart in civil strife. Kneecapping, brutal murders, and even public tarring-and-feathering were simply a fact of life for the children on the estate. He thought he knew which side he was on, but although raised as a Loyalist, he was hiding a troubling secret: that his disappeared mother - whom he'd always been told was dead - was a Roman Catholic, 'the enemy'. In a memoir of rare power, John explores the dark heart of Northern Irish sectarianism in the seventies and eighties. With searing honesty and native Belfast wit, he describes the light and darkness of his unique childhood, and his teenage journey through mod culture and ultra-Loyalism, before an escape from Belfast to London - where, still haunted by the shadow of his fractured family history - he began a turbulent and hedonistic adulthood. A Belfast Child is a tale of divided loyalties, dark secrets and the scars left by hatred and violence on a proud city - but also a story of hope, healing and ultimate redemption for a family caught in the rising tide of the Troubles.
Publisher: John Blake
ISBN: 1789462754
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
John Chambers was brought up on Belfast's notorious Loyalist Glencairn estate, during the height of the Troubles. From an early age he witnessed violence, hatred and horror as Northern Ireland tore itself apart in civil strife. Kneecapping, brutal murders, and even public tarring-and-feathering were simply a fact of life for the children on the estate. He thought he knew which side he was on, but although raised as a Loyalist, he was hiding a troubling secret: that his disappeared mother - whom he'd always been told was dead - was a Roman Catholic, 'the enemy'. In a memoir of rare power, John explores the dark heart of Northern Irish sectarianism in the seventies and eighties. With searing honesty and native Belfast wit, he describes the light and darkness of his unique childhood, and his teenage journey through mod culture and ultra-Loyalism, before an escape from Belfast to London - where, still haunted by the shadow of his fractured family history - he began a turbulent and hedonistic adulthood. A Belfast Child is a tale of divided loyalties, dark secrets and the scars left by hatred and violence on a proud city - but also a story of hope, healing and ultimate redemption for a family caught in the rising tide of the Troubles.
Belfast Boys
Author: Richard S. Grayson
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1441105190
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1441105190
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Report
Author: Ireland. Office of Chief Inspector of Reformatory and Industrial Schools
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Report
Author: Commonwealth Shipping Committee
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Shipping
Languages : en
Pages : 904
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Shipping
Languages : en
Pages : 904
Book Description
Parliamentary Papers
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bills, Legislative
Languages : en
Pages : 962
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bills, Legislative
Languages : en
Pages : 962
Book Description
Boys, Young Men and Violence
Author: Ken Harland
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137297352
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
This book draws upon data collected over an 18 year period with over 1000 boys and young men across Northern Ireland. Providing critical reflections on violence, masculinity and education, it uses the voices and experiences of young men to inform and influence research, practice and policy.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137297352
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
This book draws upon data collected over an 18 year period with over 1000 boys and young men across Northern Ireland. Providing critical reflections on violence, masculinity and education, it uses the voices and experiences of young men to inform and influence research, practice and policy.
Sessional Papers
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 930
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 930
Book Description
Remembering 1916
Author: Richard S. Grayson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107145902
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
A pioneering analysis of how the Easter Rising and the Battle of the Somme have been remembered in Ireland since 1916.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107145902
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
A pioneering analysis of how the Easter Rising and the Battle of the Somme have been remembered in Ireland since 1916.
Sport and Peace-Building in Divided Societies
Author: John Sugden
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136292330
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Sport is a cultural institution that stands at the interface between political and civil society. In divided communities, sport has been an agent of separation, sectarian hatred and violence, but also a highly effective tool for conflict resolution, reconciliation and peace-building. In this important study, John Sugden and Alan Tomlinson draw on their extensive international experience of working with divided communities to develop a methodological and theoretical model for peace-building in sport. The book showcases original case studies from three regions of the world in which sport has played a prominent role in social deconstruction and reconstruction: Northern Ireland, Israel/Palestine and South Africa. Combining a wealth of primary and secondary data, the authors chart the rise of the contemporary Sport for Development and Peace movement (SDP) and outline an important new practice-based framework for understanding, researching and working to achieve positive social change in the SDP sector. This is essential reading for any student, researcher or practitioner with an interest in the sociology of sport, sport development, international development, peace studies or conflict resolution.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136292330
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Sport is a cultural institution that stands at the interface between political and civil society. In divided communities, sport has been an agent of separation, sectarian hatred and violence, but also a highly effective tool for conflict resolution, reconciliation and peace-building. In this important study, John Sugden and Alan Tomlinson draw on their extensive international experience of working with divided communities to develop a methodological and theoretical model for peace-building in sport. The book showcases original case studies from three regions of the world in which sport has played a prominent role in social deconstruction and reconstruction: Northern Ireland, Israel/Palestine and South Africa. Combining a wealth of primary and secondary data, the authors chart the rise of the contemporary Sport for Development and Peace movement (SDP) and outline an important new practice-based framework for understanding, researching and working to achieve positive social change in the SDP sector. This is essential reading for any student, researcher or practitioner with an interest in the sociology of sport, sport development, international development, peace studies or conflict resolution.