Belfast's Unholy War
The Troubles of the 1920s
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8084650 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard English (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 120 |
| Issue | 489 |
| Pages | 1461-1462 |
| Publication date | 2005-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The English Historical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-8266 • E-ISSN: 1477-4534 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/ehr/cei462 |
| OpenAlex | W2016114186 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
Belfast's Unholy War: The Troubles of the 1920s, by Alan F. Parkinson (Dublin: Four Courts P., 2004; pp. 368. £24.95). This is the first systematic and scholarly book to address the Belfast violence surrounding the birth of Northern Ireland. Much latter-day politics in Ulster has drawn strength from assumptions concerning the events of the 1920s, so it is particularly valuable to have this coldly balanced account of those fervent days. Alan Parkinson offers ‘an honest endeavour to tell the story of the period’ from 1920 until 1922, and he does so with impressive clarity and detail. As he rightly argues, the unionist and nationalist communities in Northern Ireland drew lasting, rival lessons from these bloody years, each community being confirmed in its own damaging insecurity. Parkinson estimates the death-toll for the city in this period to have been 498; and—as with the more famous and long-lasting Troubles of the
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| Unique citing works | 6 |
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| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2024 (17) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |