Paddys Day In Trump Town

Download or read book War and an Irish Town written by Eamonn McCann and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Few could quarrel with the publisher’s description of this as a classic.” —Books Ireland “So honest, so human and so readable.” —Irish Times McCann’s account of what it is like to grow up a Catholic in a Northern Irish ghetto—first published in 1974—quickly became a classic account of the feelings generated by British rule. The author was at the center of events in Derry which first brought Northern Ireland to world attention. He witnessed the gradual transformation of the civil rights movement from a mild campaign for “British Democracy” to an all-out military assault on the British state.