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Book Chapter
‘1974 – Year of Liberty’?
2017
Overview
Were Republicans, as the Taoiseach, Liam Cosgrave, claimed, responsible for the collapse of the Executive? Cosgrave’s charge was that the campaign of the IRA ‘has sparked a massive sectarian backlash’ (White, 2006 : 215). In response the President of Provisional Sinn Féin, Ruairí Ó Brádaigh, claimed that Cosgrave was looking for a scapegoat for his government’s failure to address the ‘real cause’ of the violence in Northern Ireland: partition and the British presence (Ibid.). In fact Cosgrave’s blaming of Republicans was at odds with the negotiating position which his government had adopted both during and after the Sunningdale conference. The
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Subject
ISBN
9780719099519, 071909951X
