Jude Collins

Whose Past is it Anyway? (eBook, ePUB)

The Ulster Covenant, the Easter Rising and the Battle of the Somme

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The next ten years - 2012-2022 - have been referred to as 'the decade of centenaries'. This book focuses on three of those centenaries: the signing of the Ulster Covenant (2012), the Easter Rising (2016) and the Battle of the Somme (2016). It consists of sixteen extended interviews with politicians, artists and writers from the north and south of Ireland. (These have been re-written by the author in the style of 'A Life in the Day of' Sunday Times pieces). Among those interviewed are An Taoiseach Enda Kenny (Irish Prime Minister), Gregory Campbell MP, Ian Paisley Jr MP, the author Roddy Doyle, the artist Robert Ballagh, Bernadette McAliskey, Mary Lou McDonald and Danny Morrison. Each interview begins with some thoughts on the interviewee's background and introduction to politics; it goes on to explore their views on the significance of each of the historical events, how they might be commemorated, what opportunities and dangers these commemorations involve. While the core questions for each interview are the same, the responses are unique to each interviewee. Each interview, from these key figures, will be accompanied by a portrait image.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: THP Ireland
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780752488196
• Artikelnr.: 38225470

Autorenporträt

Jude Collins is an author, broadcaster, and political commentator. His previous book with The History Press Ireland, Tales out of School, was a similar series of interviews with notable Northern Irish figures including Nobel Prize-winner John Hume. For this book he has been granted access to a wide variety of senior political and artistic figures who have spoken candidly and insightfully about their own take on the nature and significance of these major Irish historical events.