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Exit wounds : murder, diaspora and the Irish troubles : an Irish-Australian story / Simon Adams.

Title
  1. Exit wounds : murder, diaspora and the Irish troubles : an Irish-Australian story / Simon Adams.
Published by
  1. Darlinghurst, NSW : Crossing Press, 2000.
Author
  1. Adams, Simon, 1968-

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Description
  1. xiii, 289 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
Summary
  1. Who killed our Jean? Jean Smyth, aged 24, was killed in June 1972 early in Northern Ireland's Troubles. After 25 years, as the Peace Process stalled in 1998, the author went to Belfast to find out who shot his aunt. Powerful & passionate, this book stands as both a testament to the tragedy that conflict wrecks on communities and as a savage indictment that such a conflict was waged at all. -- Publisher description
Subject
  1. Since 1900
  2. Irish question
  3. Paramilitary forces > Northern Ireland
  4. Political violence > Belfast
  5. Political violence > Northern Ireland > Personal narratives
  6. Question irlandaise
  7. Forces paramilitaires > Irlande du Nord
  8. Violence politique > Belfast
  9. Violence politique > Irlande du Nord > Récits personnels
  10. Irish question
  11. Paramilitary forces
  12. Political violence
  13. Politics and government
  14. Social conditions
  15. Northern Ireland > Politics and government > 1968-1998
  16. Northern Ireland > Politics and government > 1998-
  17. Northern Ireland > Social conditions > 1969-
  18. Belfast (Northern Ireland) > History > 20th century
  19. Irlande du Nord > Politique et gouvernement > 1968-1998
  20. Irlande du Nord > Politique et gouvernement > 1998-
  21. Irlande du Nord > Conditions sociales > 1969-
  22. Northern Ireland
  23. Northern Ireland > Belfast
Genre/Form
  1. History
  2. Personal narratives
Contents
  1. Diaspora child -- Loinnir -- Burying the rat -- Provo spice -- The severed Red Hand -- The dead of night -- A knock at the door -- Loneliness without peace -- Dirty Ardoyne -- The man who saw everything -- A lock of Henry Joy's hair -- Mo Chroi-se Dubh -- The reluctant hunger striker -- Baile Atha Cliath -- Whatever you say, say nothing -- The dead volunteer -- Of skeletons and closets -- Hector and his plastic fork -- A visit to Lond Kesh and a funeral -- Gran, Uncle Gerry and the Titanic -- The one handed provo -- A Christmas card for Thomas -- Oglach Eachtar -- Liam Averill's undies -- Sunday dinner and a wee riot -- Body count -- Orange blood -- Drawing breath -- Cuimhe (memory) -- Slan Abhaile -- Epilogue: The hand of history.
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references.
Processing action (note)
  1. committed to retain