Ringside seats : an insider's view of the crisis in Northern Ireland / Robert Ramsay ; foreword by Paul Bew.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ramsay, Robert, 1940-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Northern Ireland--Politics and government--1968-1998.

Northern Ireland.

Politics and government.

Northern Ireland--Politics and government--1998-.

Northern Ireland--Social conditions--1969-.

Social conditions.

Physical Description:

x, 333 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Dublin ; Portland, OR : Irish Academic Press, 2009.

Contents:

1 Private Office in the Ministry of Commerce 3

2 The Era of Protest 29

3 Escape to Germany; Then Back to the Drama 42

4 The Faulkner Premiership 65

5 The Fall of Stormont; et la Trahison d'un Clerc 87

6 New Masters: Direct Rule 110

7 The Central Secretariat in Stormont Castle; Then a Brief Escape to France 129

8 Life with Mason 157

9 A Year in the Wider World; Then Back to the Belfast Grindstone 182

10 A New Beginning: life in the European Democratic Group 203

11 The President's Office 233

12 Travels in the Big Wide World 255

13 A Dream Job: Director-General of Research 270

14 Northern Ireland Revisited; and Further EU Developments 285

15 Whither Europe? Whither Northern Ireland? Some Speculative Reflections 303.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780716530206

0716530201

9780716530213

071653021X

OCLC:

286441846