Rough Beast: My Story and the Reality of Sinn Féin
Autor Máiría Cahillen Limba Engleză Paperback – 12 sep 2024
Evoluția peisajului politic irlandez din ultimele decenii a fost marcată de tranziția complexă a Sinn Féin de la o aripă politică a unei mișcări paramilitare la statutul de partid de guvernământ. Totuși, sub această fațadă de legitimitate democratică, Rough Beast dezvăluie persistența unor structuri de putere obscure care au funcționat mult timp în afara legii. Notăm cu interes felul în care Máiría Cahill deconstruiește mitul coeziunii republicane, oferind o perspectivă rară din interiorul unei familii de elită a mișcării. Spre deosebire de Power Play de Deaglan de Breadun, care analizează ascensiunea Sinn Féin dintr-o perspectivă jurnalistică și politică externă, lucrarea de față este o mărturie personală viscerală despre traumele tăinuite sub paravanul ideologiei.
Descoperim aici o relatare onestă despre modul în care sistemele de justiție paralele ale IRA au fost folosite pentru a reduce la tăcere victimele abuzurilor, protejând în schimb integritatea partidului. În timp ce Before the Dawn de Gerry Adams prezintă o viziune idealizată și strategică a luptei republicane, Cahill expune prețul uman al acestei loialități oarbe. Stilul narativ este precis și lipsit de artificii, reflectând rigoarea unei autoare care a devenit ulterior senator și comentator politic. Structura cărții urmărește cronologic transformarea unei tinere destinate unei cariere politice strălucite într-o voce critică ce a forțat instituțiile statului, inclusiv pe Sir Keir Starmer, să recunoască eșecurile sistemice în protejarea cetățenilor în fața influenței paramilitare.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1804540137
Pagini: 464
Ilustrații: 1 x 8pp bw plate section
Dimensiuni: 128 x 196 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Apollo
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Această lucrare este esențială pentru cei interesați de mecanismele puterii în Irlanda de Nord și de impactul traumelor personale asupra peisajului politic. Cititorul câștigă o înțelegere profundă a modului în care organizațiile politice pot manipula justiția internă. Este o lectură necesară pentru a înțelege complexitatea societății irlandeze contemporane, dincolo de discursurile oficiale de campanie, oferind o perspectivă unică asupra curajului individual în fața corupției sistemice.
Descriere
"Rough Beast is shocking, important and unputdownable." Roddy Doyle
Rough Beast is Máiría Cahill's harrowing story of her life and of what she went through at the hands of what is now Ireland's largest and richest party. That story is told here for the first time in full detail and with unsparing honesty. It is a story of unimaginable trauma and political corruption. It brings to life a world of paramilitary secrecy and parallel laws, but above all it is the story of one young woman's defiance of the power wielded by ex-gunmen inspiring fear and silence, and their influence over elected politicians.
Máiría Cahill grew up steeped in the traditions of Irish republicanism and the shadowy world of the IRA: her great-uncle Joe was one of the main founders of the Provisional IRA and her grandfather was Gerry Adams's mentor in the republican movement. From an early age she seemed destined for a glittering career within the increasingly successful political machine of Sinn Féin, which was then enjoying the aftermath of the Good Friday Agreement. She worked in a radio station alongside leading republicans; the Sinn Féin offices were her second home. She knew Gerry Adams and other senior republicans as family friends.
But at the age of 16, she was sexually abused by a prominent Belfast IRA man. When she confided in some friends she trusted about the abuse, one of them told the IRA without Máiría's knowledge. A year later the organisation came calling, and forced her to take part in an inept and grotesquely insensitive internal investigation. She was subjected to round after round of interrogations by senior IRA men and women, usually in a network of safe houses around Belfast. Doubt was cast on her account of what had been done to her. Her assailant was allowed to confront and denounce her. Eventually her rapist was permitted to vanish from Belfast while Sinn Féin and the IRA professed bafflement about his whereabouts.
Recenzii
A true story of crime, memory, and justice, Rough Beast is absorbing and endlessly moving. It is a meteor of a book, blazing and unforgettable.
Remarkable and shocking...Cahill writes with clarity and describes events in a direct, no-nonsense way
A book that goes head to head with republicans like no other, because she knows the situation from the inside.
[A] searing memoir of rape and abuse at the hands of the Irish Republican Army
The most perceptive and devastating insight into the deranged morality of the Sinn Fein/IRA movement of recent years
[A] searing account of sexual abuse
A book which everyone in the British Isles should read
A brave and pentrating critic of Irish republican politics, Cahill is a brilliant and powerful writer
Cahill's uncompromising account of her abuse should make any Sinn Féin supporter feel deeply uncomfortable
Cahill's modest story is an important record. It hints at an adjacently possible world that doesn't have to repeat the poisonous cycles of the past... The book momentary clears the pall of forgetfulness on less regarded acts that fall outside the shiny allure of grand narratives. As such, it's worth its weight in gold.
Ms Cahill writes in harrowing detail of her treatment by Sinn Féin when she went public and why she feels let down by the PSNI. For all those with an interest in how society treats women, republicanism or modern Irish politics, this book is a must read.