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17: Gerry Adams: The Troubles, Margaret Thatcher, and the IRA

The Rest Is Politics: Leading

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Jerry Adams and Martin McGinnis: A Comparison

Without Jerry Adams and Martin McGinnis, none of what we were witnessing last week would have happened. The book that I wanted to recommend is by a journalist called Susan Mackay,. She's herself an also Protestant with everybody from people in very tough housing estates who are actually actively involved in the paramilitary violence. It's extraordinary her ability to bring forward all these different perspectives and somehow layer them over each other - it's like VS Nipals writing on India.

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