/Who Was Responsible for the Troubles? The Northern Ireland Conflict/,
by Liam Kennedy, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 256 pp, €34.95 CAD,
ISBN: 978-0228003687
Liam Kennedy is emeritus professor of economic history at Queen’s
University, Belfast, but, with all due respect to his academic
reputation, he is best known as a tireless polemicist against Irish
nationalism. A measure of his commitment is his decision to stand
against Gerry Adams in the 2005 Westminster election on an
anti-punishment-beatings platform. It was a gesture both brave and
foolhardy. In/Who Was Responsible for the Troubles?/Kennedy arraigns the
Provisional IRA, primarily for being the motor force of violence in
Northern Ireland during the Troubles. However, his antipathy to the
mindset behind Irish nationalism was set out extensively in/Unhappy the
Land: The Most Oppressed People Ever, the Irish?/(2015), a book that
earned some fame for coining the acronym MOPE. It is also useful as a
contextual introduction to/Who Was Responsible?/and to Kennedy’s mentality.
https://www.drb.ie/essays/the-blame-game
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