God and the Gun: The Church and Irish Terrorism - Hardcover

Dillon, Martin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415920604 ISBN 13: 9780415920605

Publisher: Routledge, 1998

Synopsis

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

About this title

Review:

..."likely to become the reference work on the subject."
-"Washington Times Book Review
"Dillon has written an eye-opening book about a sometimes incomprehensible sectarian situation."
-"Publishers Weekly
"An important work, containing interviews and material as disturbing as they are significant."
-"The Irish Times
"Martin Dillon is the greatest living authority on Irish terrorism."
-Conor Cruise O'Brien
..."this is an absorbing study, and one that approaches the problems in the North from a unique perspective."
-Irish Echo

From the Back Cover:

This book is the first of its kind to examine the role of religion in Northern Ireland by talking directly to those involved: to the churchmen and to the terrorists. It shows how religious conditioning and history lead inexorably to political violence. It asks Roman Catholic and Protestant paramilitaries how they can reconcile murder with their Christian convictions, and what the men of God should - or could - do to stop the killing. Martin Dillon talks to Billy Wright, loyalist hard man, whose murder in MAZE Prison on December 27, 1997 threatens the peace process; to Kenny McClinton, a convicted murderer who once advocated beheading Roman Catholics and impaling their heads on railings; to motherly Eileen, a leading member of the women's arm of the IRA; and to Father Pat Buckley - prepared to break the confessional seal to save a Unionist MP under threat of assassination but also to smuggle a Republican prisoner's wife across the Irish border.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0415920604
• ISBN 13: 9780415920605
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256