Book cover of To a Dark Place: Experiences from Survivors of the Troubles

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Between 1969 and 1998, over 4,000 people lost their lives in the small country of Northern Ireland. The vast majority of these deaths were sectarian in nature and involved ordinary civilians, killed by the various paramilitary groups. These organisations murdered freely and without remorse, considering life a cheap price to…

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1 author picked To a Dark Place as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

It took the reader beyond Northern Ireland's Good Friday Agreement, which supposedly ended the 1969-98 trouble which killed thousands in the tiny country of Northern Ireland. It centred around the lives of the survivors of terrorist attacks, and the lives of the loved ones of the lost. It showed how attempts by Sinn Fein to rewrite the history of the troubles are effectively a lie to suit their perverted narrative.

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