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The book profiles St. Columb's school in Derry, an excellent example of a school that underwent the shift from the dark post-war years into the more liberal 1960s, as a lens to understand the effect of the 1947 legislation. \"The Boys of St. Columb's\" consists of interviews with Nobel Prize winners, writers, diplomats, musicians and a socialist campaigner. The eight figures who make up this oral history are Bishop Daly, John Hume, Seamus Heaney, Seamus Deane, Phil Coulter, Eamonn McCann, Paul Brady and James Sharkey. These interviewees, as well as being world figures, are also sharply insightful. They form as fine an example as exists of the watershed in Irish history brought about by educational overhaul. These eight remarkable men first learned to survive in the unionist state, and then to thrive. The considerable momentum that gathered from their endeavours, along with those of others, paved the way for future generations. As Seamus Heaney put it, 'they broke some silences' and opened avenues that had been unimaginable to their parents. Their achievement is still being felt today. NB: This book is a tie-in with a documentary film of the same name that will be aired on RTE and BBC in 2010.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49567186059537,"sku":"GOR005287668","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1905785771.jpg?v=1751060678"},{"product_id":"john-hume-in-america-book-maurice-fitzpatrick-9781911024958","title":"John Hume in America","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eJohn Hume, Ireland's greatest peace-maker, is widely recognised as the architect of the Northern Ireland peace process. In \u003ci\u003eJohn Hume in America\u003c\/i\u003e, Maurice Fitzpatrick explores how Hume created this framework for peace through the cultivation of an unprecedented and bountiful relationship with the White House and the US Congress. John Hume's political vision and innate sense of diplomacy persuaded key players in US politics to merge their concerns with his own. Ted Kennedy, Tip O'Neill, Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Hugh Carey--together known as the \"Four Horsemen\"--were won over to his cause, lending the campaign for equality in Northern Ireland worldwide credibility and putting considerable pressure on the British and Irish governments to strive for peace. Through his work with the \"Four Horsemen,\" Hume engaged every America president from Jimmy Carter to Bill Clinton. \u003ci\u003eJohn Hume in America\u003c\/i\u003e, a towering achievement, supported by the Hume family, explores the intricate negotiations that made this possible and highlights Hume's paramount role in leveraging Irish-America. Maurice Fitzpatrick's seminal work is the missing piece in the jigsaw of Hume's political life, tracing his philosophy of non-violence during the Civil Rights Movement through to his indispensable work with friends in the US towards the creation of a new political framework in Northern Ireland. 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Hume is widely considered the architect of the Northern Ireland peace process, and he engaged the attention and assistance of the \"Four Horsemen\"—Thomas \"Tip\" O'Neill, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Hugh Carey, and Ted Kennedy—to his cause, lending his effort worldwide credibility and putting significant pressure on the British and Irish governments to strive for peace.   Supported by the Hume family, Fitzpatrick's critical work is the missing piece in the jigsaw of Hume's political life, tracing his philosophy of non-violence during the Civil Rights movement to his indispensable work with allies in the United States towards the creation of a new political framework in Northern Ireland. Both the book and its companion documentary will be of keen interest to historians and students of political science and Irish, peace, and conflict studies, as well as non-academic audiences.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51000595710225,"sku":"NIN9780268106508","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0268106509.jpg?v=1765620005"},{"product_id":"discourses-of-unity-in-ireland-and-europe-book-michal-lachman-9780815612117","title":"Discourses of Unity in Ireland and Europe","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe binary between a united Ireland and the current form of partition has provoked writers and scholars and established an important debate about what unity would look like. \u003ci\u003eDiscourses of Unity in Ireland and Europe\u003c\/i\u003e charts and critically discusses the challenges of articulating unity while one-sided discourses—on either nationalist or unionist grounds—have gradually been integrating an Irish identity that finds itself between Britain and Europe. \t\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cbr\u003e \tCrucial to all of this is the role of writers in reimagining Irish writing before and after the Northern Ireland peace process and in reconstituting an idea of Irish unity in their works. Maurice Fitzpatrick, Christoph Reinfandt, and Raphael Zähringer bring together scholars from the fields of philosophy, political science, diplomacy, history, and literary and cultural studies to interpret how the concept of unity has manifested in literary, historical, and political texts. 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