Honestly feels like a must-read for decolonization, but I don’t really know much. The public perception of Ireland’s struggle for liberation is very different from others.

Sinn Fein is really interesting, the idea of “Liquidating otherwise unrecoverable political capital amassed by the IRA gunmen.” Decades of militancy, violence, and death is effectively cashed out for less-than-satisfactory political gains. Northern Ireland is still a colony.

Brendan Hughes, an ex-IRA official, said “The boat [Sinn Fein] is sailing on the high seas, with all the luxuries that it brings, and the poor people that launched the boat are left sitting in the muck.” Maybe the worst part of Sinn Fein’s political success was that it required complete denunciation of the IRA’s militant actions and those involved.

Have to think about this book for a while, but I’m really inspired to read more about other liberation movements. RIP Bobby Sands.