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Join Liam Kennedy for a virtual launch of his new book, Who Was Responsible for the Troubles? The Northern Ireland Conflict. The event is hosted by McGill-Queen's University Press and Queens University Belfast.
Liam Kennedy is emeritus professor of history, Queen's University Belfast, and a member of the Royal Irish Academy.
The central question posed in this book is fundamental, yet it is one that has rarely been asked: Who was primarily responsible for the prosecution of the Troubles and their attendant toll of the dead, the injured, and the emotionally traumatized? Liam Kennedy, who lived in Belfast throughout most of the conflict, was long afraid to raise the question and its implications. After years of reflection and research on the matter he has brought together elements of history, politics, sociology, and social psychology to identify the collective actors who drove the conflict onwards for more than three decades, from the days of the civil rights movement in the late 1960s to the signing of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998.