War and an Irish Town

Few could quarrel with the publishers description of this as a classic. Books Ireland So honest, so human and so readable. Irish Times McCanns account of what it is like to grow up a Catholic in a Northern Irish ghettofirst published in 1974quickly became a classic account of the feelings generated by British rule. The author was at the center of events in Derry which first brought Northern Ireland to world attention. He witnessed the gradual transformation of the civil rights movement from a mild campaign for British Democracy to an all-out military assault on the British state.