Unabridged Audiobook
Explains so much about the history, my history, that I’d never really understood because so little was spoken about. Born in Belfast with a grandfather called William and father named Patrick. Any Northern Ireland citizen would understand the point of this! Stories from my grandmother about the Black and Tans’s atrocities. But these were stories told to children. We were told we were British but we lived in Ireland, learned the ballads on grandmother’s knees. We learned about English History; Irish History was not taught. Keane manages to explain that the brutality of war is a common factor among all factions. He describes the bitterness and tragedy of a civil war and that the consequences live through the generations. So although focussing on Ireland’s history and the consequences of war, Fergal Keane tells us that although conflicts and civil wars take place in various countries, the affect will be the same.
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