FabSwingers.com forum: The Troubles

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

After watching the reports on Margaret Thatcher yesterday I realise I know nothing about Irish politics and The Troubles and would like to learn more. Can anyone recommend any books or documentaries please?

By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

you can read all the books and watch all

the tv programmes but the one thing you'll

never do is get inside peoples minds. its

complicated to an outsider.

Try 'the wind that shakes the barley'

By *nfieldishCouple
over a year ago

Enfield

History of Ireland

Robert kee

By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"After watching the reports on Margaret Thatcher yesterday I realise I know nothing about Irish politics and The Troubles and would like to learn more. Can anyone recommend any books or documentaries please?"

If you type 'The Troubles' into that well-known on-line encyclopaedia, you'll find there is a pretty good article/page which gives a good overview of them from their origins right up to date.

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

If you type 'The Troubles' into that well-known on-line encyclopaedia, you'll find there is a pretty good article/page which gives a good overview of them from their origins right up to date."

I already did and didn't think it was all that really