- Paperback: 133 pages
- Publisher: AK Press; 1st ed edition (9 May 1994)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1873176678
- ISBN-13: 978-1873176672
- Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 14 x 1.2 cm
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Ulster's White Negroes, 5 Jan 2001
By Mark A. Brennan - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Ulster's White Negroes: From Civil Rights to Insurrection (Paperback)
In Ulster's White Negroes: From Civil Rights to Insurrection, Fionnbarra Ódochartaigh presents a balanced and insightful account of the social, economic and political conditions that ultimately led to the current conflict. Based on his own experiences and those of others, he describes conditions in Derry and throughout the North between 1967 and 1972. In this book, he gives detailed accounts of events occurring through the initial development of the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Movement, to calls for fair employment and housing practices. Ódochartaigh continues through the Internment period and concludes with the events of Bloody Sunday. After both of these, nothing would ever be the same again. Most important is his description of the initial seeds of the struggle that are all to often forgotten: political indifference, bigotry, British/Unionist elitism and the economic deprivation of Catholic communities throughout the North of Ireland.This analysis highlights the often forgotten fact that the conflict began as peaceful acts of resistance and nonviolent civil protest, not as acts of revolution. While providing detailed descriptions of human right violations and sectarian violence, this book highlights the often overlooked and everyday conditions that impacted Catholics communities: poor housing opportunities, few chances for employment and a system biased against improving the social and economic conditions of Catholics. This framed the origins of the conflict in a more identifiable light. The events that took place are more the result of everyday social and economic conditions, than they are of age-old symbolism and struggle. Due to Unionist/British responses to a legitimate and justified call for equal rights, the conditions that led to the current struggle were born out of necessity, rather than radical design. One can only wonder what could have been if these protests had been met with constructive debate and responsible political action instead of RUC and British troop deployments.
Ulster's White Negroes: From Civil Rights to Insurrection should be required reading for anyone interested in the origins and evolution of the Troubles. Those interested in the achievement of peace with justice in the North of Ireland owe it to themselves to read this account and understand the events of those early days in Derry and Belfast. This is particularly true for those outside of Ireland, who are often presented with misleading representations of the historical basis for the current struggle. In light of events currently taking place, recognition of the basis for the Northern Ireland Civil Rights movement and the corresponding response by British/Unionist forces, will prove valuable in understanding the problems facing the current peace process.
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'the Troubles', 13 Mar 2002
By Edward L. Bradford - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Ulster's White Negroes: From Civil Rights to Insurrection (Paperback)
Ulster's White Negroes is an exellent book for all interested in political conflict and social issues. It is writtten from someone who had first hand knowledge and had actually participated in the political process of Northern Ireland. It is a very quick read that will spark your interest in the subject.
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First-hand analysis & memoir from Derry, 19 July 2005
By John L Murphy "Fionnchú" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Ulster's White Negroes: From Civil Rights to Insurrection (Paperback)
Much has been written from the Belfast perspective on the Irish struggle and the Loyalist counter-actions over the past forty years. Far less emerged from Derry; this and Eamonn McCann's "War and an Irish Town" are the two basic first-person accounts, supplemented by Peggy Deery, an "as told to" book by Nell McCafferty, and Niall O Dochartaigh's more academic study of Derry's role in the rise of the civil rights movement and the insurrection following.
I stress the importance of Fionnbarra O Dochartaigh (who you might find in the histories by related spellings/anglicizations) as an example of the generation, also shown by such regional figures as Seamus Heaney, John Hume, and Martin McGuinness, as part of the post-WWII generation who took the Irish cause forward in various cultural, political, or activist choices made for those who sought to further the tiny gains begun by those who refused the gerrymandering and blatant discrimination foisted by the Unionists upon the city.
O Dochartaigh's story moves between the personal and the political, NICRA and the various factions that campaigned for a peaceful progression into freedom and were only pushed towards, among some of them, more aggressive agitation after the marches had been suppressed. Although I wish he had taken his account further into the present regarding his own on-going grassroots organizing, he provides a solid context for a part of north eastern Ireland that unfortunately has been long overshadowed by its more populous larger city. Some of his reticence may be due to on-going surveillance brought upon republican activists now.
There's welcome touches of sly humor, which enliven this rather thin, unfortunately, but essential reading for finding out more about how the city on the Foyle fared in the earlier stages of the Irish republican movement. The author was one of the first sit-in occupiers in Derry, by the way! A sequel to this narrative would be welcomed by many of us readers.
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