num_pages: 174
description: The year 1994 was one of enormous significance for Northern Ireland. After twenty-five years of destruction and bloodshed, both the Irish Republican Army and the Combined Loyalist Military Command announced ceasefires. Their reasoning was far from republicans believed that political forces in Ireland and abroad were moving inexorably towards a united Ireland, while the loyalist cessation was delivered on the assumption that the union with Britain was safe.Only time will tell which analysis was correct, but in this revealing new book Brian Rowan, Chief Security Correspondent of BBC Northern Ireland, examines in detail the key events that led to both ceasefires, describing the policy changes within Sinn Fein as well as the emergence of a new pragmatism within the loyalist groupings. Capturing the increasingly dramatic pace of the headline stories as they broke, he also presents the hindsight analysis of many of the main players, as conveyed to him in exclusive interviews in late 1994 and early 1995. Among the people prepared to speak to Rowan 'on the record' were Gerry Adams, Gary McMichael, Martin McGuinness, David Ervine, John Hume, Albert Reynolds, Hugh Annesley, Cardinal Daly, Archbishop Eames, the Revd Roy Magee and Senator Gordon Wilson.
language: English
title: Behind the Lines: The Story of the IRA and Loyalist Ceasefires
titlecomplete: Behind the Lines: The Story of the IRA and Loyalist Ceasefires
ratings_count: 3
publisher: Blackstaff Pr