What a Bloody Awful Country
What a Bloody Awful Country "For God's sake, bring me a large Scotch. Following the fraught history of British rule in Ireland, a better future was there for the taking but was lost amid political…
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What a Bloody Awful Country
"For God's sake, bring me a large Scotch. Following the fraught history of British rule in Ireland, a better future was there for the taking but was lost amid political paralysis, while the resulting fifty years of devolution succeeded only in creating a brooding sectarian stalemate that exploded into the Troubles.In a stark but reasoned critique, Meagher traces the landmark events in Northern Ireland's century of existence, exploring the missed What a bloody awful country!" Home Secretary Reginald Maudling, returning from his first visit to Northern Ireland in 1970As a long and bloody guerrilla war staggered to a close on the island of Ireland, Britain beat a retreat from all but a small portion of the country - and thus, in 1921, Northern Ireland was born.That partition, says Kevin Meagher, has been an unmitigated disaster for Nationalists and Unionists alike.