This Troubled Land: Voices from Northern Ireland on the Front Lines of Peace

by Patrick Rucker

Book Overview

When American journalist Patrick Michael Rucker learned of the Northern Ireland peace accord signed on Good Friday, 1998, he knew he had to return. Rucker had last seen this torn country in 1991, when... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0345446704
• ISBN13: 9780345446701
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

Very good

In the autumn of 1998, journalist Patrick Rucker returned to Northern Ireland to see how things have changed since the Good Friday peace accord. Interviewing many different people, he paints the picture of a land that is still not at peace, but filled with the bitterness from the long struggle, but too exhausted to keep the fighting up.This book is quite interesting, showing the reader a side of Ireland that is just not visible in most books. Allowing the people to tell their own stories gives this book a powerful grip, which makes it hard to put down and harder to forget.My one complaint is that Mr. Rucker focused heavily on the Catholic community, showing their bitterness against the Protestants, the British government and army, and against the IRA (which is painted in stark colors that are not flattering). However, even with those limitations, this is a very good book, one that I highly recommend to anyone interested in the condition of Northern Ireland.

Excellent read

Gripping, inciteful, fast moving account of daily life in N Ireland today. Can't put it down once you get in to the book. Great history lesson and description of how life is lived so soon after all the violence that occurred during the Troubles in Belfast and N Ireland