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Politics in the Streets: The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement in Northern Ireland

Author: Bob Purdie

Blackstaff Press, Belfast, 1990, pp. 286

Argues that the movement made a strategic error in taking to the streets because of the connection between street demonstrations and sectarian conflict in Northern Ireland. Although activists drew inspiration from the US Civil Rights Movement they did not, in his view, take sufficient account of the different circumstances in the two countries.