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Red Triangle:Workers, Loyalists and Partition – A North of Ireland History
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A fascinating people’s history that transforms our understanding of Irish Independence, Partition and the origins of Northern Ireland
Red Triangle is a major social history and the backstory to Britain’s partition of Ireland in 1921. It captures the wave of labour militancy that swept across the north during the struggle for Irish independence. From Belfast and Ulster’s linen triangle, this movement radiated outwards as socialist trade unionists forged an unlikely alliance between Catholics and Protestants, challenging sectarian divisions and imperial authority. The mass strikes offered a tantalising glimpse of a democratic future for Ulster before the movement was crushed by loyalist violence.
East Tyrone historian Fearghal Mac Bhloscaidh draws on vivid eyewitness testimony, lost pamphlets and labour archives to craft a compelling, ground level account of Partition and its place in Irish history.
Reviews
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A timely and important book, well-researched and incisive, and written with verve and conviction.
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An honest, powerful and badly needed account of the forces that shaped the sectarian northern state and continue to affect us today. Fearghal was my history teacher and he was someone I had a huge amount of time and respect for, his passion for history and his ability to connect it to the world around us stayed with me long after I left the classroom
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Rarely are we fortunate enough to read a book that not only enlightens but also has the capacity to impact so meaningfully as Red Triangle. The author of this excellent work lays to rest the myth that permanent and immutable sectarianism is ineradicably embedded within the psyche of the northern Irish population
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A timely and important book, well researched and incisive, and written with verve and conviction
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Important ... We follow the outworking of the “carnival of reaction” presaging a century of counter revolution in Ireland, north and south. It reminds us that Partition was the defining intervention undermining the promise of the “red triangle”