Solidarity and pressure : the story of the Irish Anti-Apartheid movement / Connal Parr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Parr, Connal, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement--History.

Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement.

Anti-apartheid activists--Ireland--History--20th century.

Anti-apartheid activists.

Anti-apartheid movements--Ireland--History--20th century.

Anti-apartheid movements.

Ireland--Foreign relations--South Africa.

Ireland.

South Africa--Foreign relations--Ireland.

South Africa.

Anti-apartheid movements--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2025]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

'Solidarity and Pressure' is the first full-length study of the Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement (IAAM), founded in 1964. Drawing on seventy interviews, the IAAM's own records, and private papers from Anti-Apartheid activists, 'Solidarity and Pressure' captures the exhilarating story of the IAAM across three decades.

Contents:

1. The birth of the Irish anti-apartheid movement: building a broad front

2. Friends and enemies: the left, the north, and secret operations

3. Springboks and the seventies

4. New worlds: literature as resistance and the cultural boycott

5. The Dunnes Stores strike

6. Transitions and peace processes

7. Ministerial coda

8. Ministerial coda

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on October 21, 2025).

Other Format:

Print version :

ISBN:

9780191991073

0191991074

OCLC:

1536079259

Publisher Number:

CIPO000290398