The Real Dissidents: The People Who Didn't Shut-Up and Go Away

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Notes

1. Fintan O'Toole, Ship of Fools: How Stupidity and Corruption Sank the Celtic Tiger (London: Faber, 2009), 12.

2. Ibid., 14.

3. Ibid., 9.

4. Ibid., 20.

5. Ibid., 28.

6. Ibid., 36.

7. Ibid., 180.

8. Ibid., 182.

9. Ibid., 184.

10. Ibid.

11. Ibid., 188.

12. Ibid., 190.

13. Tobias Jones, The Dark Heart of Italy (London: Faber, 2003).

14. Kevin Myers, Watching the Door: Cheating Death in 1970s Belfast (London: Atlantic Books, 2008), 117–18.

15. Ibid., 13.

16. Ibid., 15.

17. Ibid., 14.

18. Ibid., 26.

19. Ibid., 53.

20. Ibid., 166.

21. Ibid., 167.

22. The most convincing revisionist interpretations have been provided by Huw Bennett, who argues that harsh methods were perceived by the British Army as a necessary precursor to “hearts and minds” operations. See Huw Bennett, “‘A Very Salutary Effect’: The Counter-Terror Strategy in the Early Malayan Emergency, June 1948 to December 1949,” Journal of Strategic Studies 32, no. 3 (2009): 415–44; “Minimum Force in British Counter-Insurgency,” Small Wars and Insurgencies 21, no. 3 (2010): 459–75; “The Other Side of the COIN: Minimum and Exemplary Force in British Army Counter-insurgency in Kenya,” Small Wars and Insurgencies 18, no. 4 (2007): 638–64.

23. Myers, Watching the Door, 79.

24. The Community of Peace People, or the Peace People as it became popularly known, was formed by Máiread Corrigan and Betty Williams after the three children of Corrigan's sister, Anne Maguire, were run over and killed by a car driven by an IRA man who had been fatally shot while being pursued by the British Army on August 10, 1976. The two women were later joined by the journalist Ciaran McKeown and organized a number of mass peace marches in Northern Ireland and London. Corrigan and Williams were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1976.

25. Myers, Watching the Door, 239.

26. Ibid., 185.

27. There have been previous attempts to list the number of dead in Northern Ireland, most notably Malcolm Sutton's Bear in Mind These Dead: An Index of the Conflict in Ireland, 1969–93 (Belfast: Beyond the Pale Publications, 1994).

28. My views on this literature have been elaborated elsewhere. See “Book Reviews,” International Affairs 79, no. 3 (2002): 905–06.

29. Ruth Dudley Edwards, Aftermath: The Omagh Bombing and the Families' Pursuit of Justice (London: Harvill Secker, 2009), 109.

30. Ibid., 317.

31. Ibid., 288.

32. Ibid., 306.

33. For the classic exposition see Václav Havel, “The Power of the Powerless,” in Living in Truth, ed. Jan Vladislav (London: Faber, 1986), 36–122.

34. See Alexander Stille, Excellent Cadavers: The Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic (London: Vintage, 1996).