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Liverpool University Press Tartan Gangs and Paramilitaries: The Loyalist Backlash

Name: Tartan Gangs and Paramilitaries: The Loyalist Backlash
Brand: Liverpool University Press
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Tartan Gangs and Paramilitaries is a new oral history of the loyalist backlash of the early 1970s in Northern Ireland. In the violent maelstrom of Belfast in 1971 and 1972 many young members of loyalist youth gangs known as 'Tartans' converged with fledgling paramilitary groups such as the Red Hand Commando, Ulster Volunteer Force and Young Citizen Volunteers. This fresh account focuses on the manner in which the loyalist community in Belfast reacted to an increasingly vicious Provisional IRA campaign and explores the violent role that young loyalist men played in the period from 1970 - 1975. Through the use of unique one-on-one interviews former members of Tartan gangs and loyalist paramilitaries explain what motivated them to cross the Rubicon from gang activity to paramilitaries. The book utilises a wide range of sources such as newspaper articles, loyalist newssheets, coroners' inquest reports and government memorandums to provide the context for a dynamic new study of the emergence of loyalist paramilitarism.

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Brand: Liverpool University Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1781383251
Category: Books > Subjects > History > Europe > Great Britain
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 01 August 2016
Listed Since: 04 April 2016

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