Martin McGuinness From Guns to Government

by Clarke, Liam; Johnston, Kathryn

• ISBN13: 9781840187250
• ISBN10: 1840187255
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-04-01
• Publisher: Mainstream Publishing

Summary

Martin McGuinness has variously been described as "the second most powerful man in Britain after Rupert Murdoch," "the personification of the armed struggle," and "IRA Godfather of Godfathers." Yet McGuinness, now the first Minister for Education in the Northern Ireland Assembly, is also a devout Catholic and the father of four. In his native Derry, he is equally revered and reviled. In this new biography, Liam Clarke and Kathryn Johnston uncover the truth behind the enigmatic, intensely private individual who holds the peace process in the palm of his hand. Drawing on interviews with friends and family, IRA volunteers, police officers, IRA victims, civil servants, and politicians, they tell the story of how McGuinness steered the IRA through war to peace. Liam Clarke is Northern Ireland Editor of The Sunday Times and author ofBroadening the Battlefield;Kathryn Johnston is a journalist and filmmaker.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Paperback Edition	7	(19)
Introduction: October 2001	19	(4)
Interviewees	23	(2)
A Boy from the Bogside	25	(13)
Sticks, Stones and Good Old Petrol Bombs	38	(14)
The Volunteer	52	(15)
Bloody Sunday	67	(14)
The Blue-Eyed Boy	81	(14)
Prison/Truce	95	(12)
The Sinews of War	107	(15)
Eighteen Paras and Mountbatten	122	(16)
The Hunger Strike	138	(13)
The Armalite and the Ballot Box	151	(14)
The Cutting Edge	165	(13)
Trials	178	(13)
Turning Point	191	(12)
Judge, Jury and Executioner	203	(13)
Operation Taurus and the Ceasefire	216	(13)
The Learning Curve	229	(12)
Guns to Government	241	(12)
The Long March Away from the Gun	253	(13)
Conclusion: An End to the IRA?	266	(15)
Postscript	281	(13)
Glossary	294	(4)
Notes	298	(6)
Appendix 1	304	(3)
Appendix 2	307	(9)
Index	316