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Michael McKeown provides a vivid account of the Irish experience that shaped his political attitudes over a 20-year span from the Border Campaign of the 1950s, through the Civil Rights agitation of the 1960s, to the Direct Rule period of the 1970s. Drawing upon his first-hand knowledge he tells what it was like to grow up under a Unionist administration and he describes the social violence and destruction which erupted in Belfast in 1969.
A keen observer of evenmts on the ground as Northern Ireland descenced into the maelstrom.
From ardoyne, Michael McKeown taught and lectured at Carysfort College in Dublin, as well as being a leading memeber of the INTO .
