Belfast and Derry in Revolt - Simon Prince

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became more prone to erupting into violence. The politicization of private life and the privatization of politics helped shape the start of the Troubles. As the new chapter on the Falls Road Curfew highlights, the biggest battle between Irish republicans and the British army since 1916 began with a woman falling out with her husband for storing arms in the family home. The violence of the Troubles was creative as well as destructive: individuals and organizations responded to it by constructing new identities, institutions, and ideas. These processes had logics of their own, giving rise as time progressed to conflicts that were scarcely connected to those charted in this book. The original issue in contention, however, was not marginalized. Indeed, Brexit has shown just how much the conflict over who the people are remains at the centre of public life.

      This new edition of Belfast and Derry in Revolt has added a chapter on the Falls Road Curfew and taken out one on how narratives mapped out the contours of the conflicts. Both these choices came in response to feedback from readers. Extending our narrative by another week has allowed us to develop further our argument about how political competition produced violence. Removing a chapter that explored at length how human memory operates keeps up the momentum of our narrative. This preface has presented the relevant conclusions of that cut chapter; it has also set out our purposes for the book more directly and addressed an event whose significance is overlooked. As the last line of Belfast and Derry in Revolt acknowledges, there will always be something new to be said about the start of the Troubles.

      Baoth of us would like to begin by acknowledging the incalculable debt that we owe to Paul Bew and Lisa Hyde. Among many, many other things, we would like to thank Paul and Lisa for introducing us to each other and encouraging us to work together. We would also like to thank the staffs of the National Archives in London, the National Archives of Ireland in Dublin and the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland in Belfast – and particularly David Huddleston whose advice and help on the location and declassification of documents was indispensable; the McClay Library at Queen’s University Belfast and especially Diarmuid Kennedy, in charge of Special Collections; the Linen Hall Library in Belfast; the newspaper libraries in Belfast and Colindale; the Bodleian Library at Oxford University; the Imperial War Museum; Derry City Council’s Archive Service; and the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies in London. Thanks to Will Liddle for the maps and to the team at Irish Academic Press for their sterling work in getting the book ready for publication. We owe a debt to fellow scholars of Northern Ireland’s troubled past, too: Paul Arthur, Guy Beiner, Aaron Edwards, Richard English, James Greer, Brian Hanley, Tom Hennessey, Liam Kelly, Brendan Lynn, Marc Mulholland, Niall Ó Dochartaigh, Henry Patterson, Bob Purdie and Graham Walker.

      GEOFFREY WARNER: I would like to express my thanks to the following people, without whose help my contribution to this book would never have been written: Jane Liddle, whose efforts halved the time required in the archives and libraries of London and Belfast and who provided constant encouragement during the research process and the writing- up; to Fathers Keenan, McMunro and Mac Manuis for access to the valuable chronicles of St Matthew’s Church and the Clonard Monastery in Belfast; to Briege Rice, for much appreciated help in the latter stages of research; to Bob Purdie for reading through early drafts and providing invaluable comments; to Martin Parker, whose computing skills ensured that an ageing desktop survived long enough to see the completion of the text; and to two men, one a former member of the IRA and the other of the UVF, who were participants in some of the events described in the book and who gave generously of their time in answering my questions and explaining their own positions. Given the circumstances, it is even more important than usual to emphasize the customary caveat that the conclusions reached and the views expressed in the book are those of the author alone.

      SIMON PRINCE: I have accumulated many scholarly debts in working on this book. My greatest debt is to Roy Foster who signalled that I was heading down a dead end, guided me in a different direction and encouraged me to wander all over the road and indeed off it, too. I have also benefitted enormously from the support that I have received from Richard English, Ian McBride and Richard Bourke; my contribution to this book would not have been written without them. Bob Purdie, Patrick Maume, Briege Rice, Erika Hanna, Robert Lynch, Margaret O’Callaghan, Graham Walker, Dominic Bryan, Kieran McEvoy, Catherine Merridale, Michael Drolet, Elizabeth Elbourne, Frances Flanagan, Sarah Stoller, Lorenzo Bosi, Jeremy Varon, Ruud van Dijk and Chris Reynolds all took the trouble to read early forms of some of the chapters, and I am deeply grateful for their incisive comments. During the course of researching and writing my contribution to this book, many other people have helped me in different ways and I am glad to have this chance to thank them: Giogros Antoniou, Lauren Arrington, Pamela Ballinger, John Bew, Eugenio Biagini, Jessie Blackbourn, Dani Blaylock, the late Kevin Boyle, Mike Broers, Tony Coughlan, Tony Craig, Gianluca De Fazio, Anne Devlin, Michael Fanning, Diarmaid Ferriter, Martyn Frampton, Ultán Gillen, Clive Holmes, Eamonn Hughes, Roy Johnston, the late Tony Judt, Tara Keenan Thomson, Michael Kerr, Frances Lannon, Jane Liddle, Maria Luddy, Brendan ‘Bik’ McFarlane, Leo McGann, Marisa McGlinchey, Cillian McGrattan, Peter McLoughlin, Caroline Magennis, Jonathan Moore, Ellie Nairne, Caoimhe Ni Dháibhéid, Eunan O’Halpin, Senia Paseta, Tamson Pietsch, Paul Readman, Colin Reid, the Rice family, Daniel Sherman, Robert Tombs, Jon Tonge, Brian Walker and Rakefet Zalashik. (As ever, not all of those I thank agree with all the arguments I have made nor do they bear any responsibility for any errors.) I owe debts to institutions as well as individuals because Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, the Institute of Irish Studies, Queen’s University Belfast, and the History Department, King’s College London, have each provided me with an academic home over the last four years. ‘Writing a book,’ George Orwell argued, ‘is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness.’ So, I want to end by thanking my best friends and my family for nursing me through this second bout: Tom Parkin, Nick Dale and Corin Spencer-Allen; my sister Sarah, my father Keith and my mother Margaret. I have dedicated this book to my mother, who deserves much better.

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      BHAC Belfast Housing Action Committee

      CCDC Central Citizens Defence Committee

      CIA Central Intelligence Agency

      CND Campaign for nuclear Disarmament

      CS O-Chlorobenzylidene Malonontrite

      DCAC Derry Citizens Action Committee

      DCDA Derry Citizens Defence Association

      DHAC Derry Housing Action Committee

      DUAC Derry Unemployed Action Committee

      ECHR European Convention on Human Rights

      EOKA National Organization of Cypriot Fighters

      GOC General Officer Commanding

      GPO General Post Office

      IRA Irish Republican Army

      ITN Independent Television News

      MP Member of Parliament

      NICRA Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association

      NIHT Northern Ireland Housing Trust

      NILP Northern Ireland Labour Party

      PD People’s Democracy

      RIC Royal Irish Constabulary

      RTÉ Raidió Teilifís Éireann

      RUC Royal Ulster Constabulary

      SDA Shankill Defence Association

      SNCC Student Non-violent Co-ordinating Committee

      UCDC Ulster Constitution Defence Committee

      UDI Unilateral Declaration of Independence

      UDR Ulster Defence Regiment

      UPV Ulster Protestant Volunteers

      USC Ulster Special Constabulary

      UTV Ulster Television

      UVF Ulster Volunteer Force

      VSC Vietnam Solidarity Campaign

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