Fifteen minutes before five o'clock on Good Friday, 1998, Senator George Mitchell was informed that his long and difficult quest for an Irish peace accord had succeeded--the Protestants and Catholics of Northern Ireland, and the governments of the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom, would sign the agreement. "Yet it continues to be a roller coaster ride of emotions for all of us." - Moytura

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Nobel Peace Prize laureate of 1998 John Hume is a founding member of Northern Ireland's Social Democratic and Labour Party and has been a leading figure in the decades-long struggle to bring peace to that region.

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Holland, a native of Belfast with both Catholic and Protestant roots, provides a lucid and insightful analysis of the "Troubles" that have plagued Northern Ireland since 1966. Dividing the contemporary Troubles into three distinct phases, the author offers a historical, economic, social, and cultural overview of each individual era. 

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In October 1976 in Belfast, two of Maguire's nephews and one of her nieces, all young children, were run over and killed by the car of an IRA gunman who had been shot by a British Army patrol officer. Mairead Corrigan Maguire, winner of the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize, channeled her grief and rage by organizing peace demonstrations and marches that drew more than half a million people in Northern Ireland, England, and the Republic of Ireland. 

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"There has been a long struggle behind the scenes in Northern Ireland. The politicians deserve a lot of credit for the recent movement toward peace, but politics alone didn't make this happen. The ordinary people have propelled the leaders. There have been long conversations, out of the eye of the media, that have led to the recent breakthrough. My book is meant to be a witness and a testimony to their work." 

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When people think of the centuries-old struggle for home rule in Northern Ireland, they generally think of the Irish Republican Army. Now comess an exhaustive history of one of the most feared and misunderstood paramilitary groups of all time--by an authority on Irish affairs. 32 photos. 

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Drawing on rare interviews with his sources on both sides of the conflict, the author traces the causes, effects, and dimensions of the ongoing conflict in Northern Ireland, up to and beyond the unstable cease-fire of 1994. 

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First published in 1980, here is the account of the H-block protest, one of the most shocking and controversial situations in the tragic history of Northern Ireland. The author spoke to all sides and set down the facts of the protest squarely, as well as the human tragedy behind them. 

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'The eyewitness accounts...are vivid, shocking, full of odd, aching detail, and bring back to mind the core fact of the matter, that Bloody Sunday was the biggest single act of injustice perpetrated against the Catholic section of the North's working class by the British State in the course of the Troubles.' --The (Dublin) Sunday Tribune Magazine 

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On January 30, 1972, the Parachute Regiment of the British Army opened fire on a peaceful civil rights march in Derry, Northern Ireland, killing thirteen. Twenty-six years later, this new anthology contains eight accounts that look at Bloody Sunday from different perspectives. 

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Peace in Ireland : Two States, One People  by David Bleakley
Price: $22.95

Love in Chaos : Spiritual Growth and the Search for Peace in Northern Ireland  by Mary McAleese
Price: $9.56