Rory Carroll's 'There Will Be Fire' revisits an infamous 1984 IRA bombing. He explains why it was important to have sympathy for all sides of the Troubles.
“The Troubles” seems incommensurate — euphemistic even — as a descriptor of the social fission that cleaved apart Northern Ireland in the late 20th century.It was, but even more so was her restraint afterward. The IRA was thinking that there might be a hurricane of security forces hunting them down and another round of internment. Thatcher responded to an attack in a very measured way even as the tabloids were calling for her to string them up.
Rory Carroll’s new book, “There Will Be Fire,” revisits the infamous IRA bombing of a hotel housing Margaret Thatcher in 1984. I felt the conflict was such a waste. You can ask, “After nearly 30 years of the Troubles, what did everyone get with the Good Friday agreements?” After all the horrendous violence it was something similar to what was offered by the British government in thefrom 1973. But that was rejected by pretty much everyone in Northern Ireland on both sides.
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