The Politics of Illusion: Republicanism and Socialism in Modern Ireland (Radius Books)
By Henry Patterson.
Description
This is the first comprehensive study of the IRA's attempts to create a "social republicanism," a marriage between militant nationalism and the politics of the left. From agitation among the peasantry in the 1920s to efforts in the 1990s to add a political dimension to purist nationalism in the form of Sinn Fein's "peace process," Henry Patterson analyzes the various failed attempts to marry two fundamentally incompatible ideologies. Friend and foe have described the IRA as "socialists," "Marxists" and "fascists" or simply as milit...
ISBN(s)
0091741394, 9780091741396
