The Long Game

Sinn Fein, long widely-regarded as the political wing of the Provisional IRA, is the most popular political party in both Northern Ireland and the Republic. A movement once synonymous with a paramilitary campaign is on the brink of taking real power through purely democratic means. But if Sinn Fein has mastered the art of electoral politics, it remains strangely opaque. Who really runs the party? How is it funded? And what can we expect of it as a party of government?

Aoife Moore, Irish Journalist of the Year 2021. explores these and other burning questions in The Long Game. Drawing on exclusive interviews with current and former members of Sinn Fein, she builds up a picture of a party undergoing a profound, and still incomplete, transformation. She looks at the key individuals and moments that put the party on its present course, and she explores tensions within the party and the wider republican movement.

Packed with revelatory details, The Long Game is a groundbreaking telling of contemporary Ireland''s biggest and most elusive political story.<>

Product details

• Authors: Aoife Moore
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 25.04.2024
• Subject: Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education
• EAN: 9780241993781
• ISBN: 978-0-241-99378-1
• Pages: 400
• Dimensions (packing): 12.9 x 19.8 x 3.5 cm
• Subjects: History, Politics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, Nationalism, HISTORY / Europe / Ireland, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Media & Internet, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Women in Politics, 21st Century, Northern Ireland, Ireland, Religion & politics, Political leaders & leadership, Political structures: democracy, Gerry Adams, Religion and Politics, Left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Elections & referenda, US Politics, Early 21st century c 2000 to c 2050, Political leaders and leadership, Partition, Elections and referenda / suffrage, The Troubles, Irish History, Fine Gael, Good Friday Agreement, Irish Politics, Easter Rising, political books, c 1968 to c 1999 (period of The Troubles in Northern Ireland), non fiction books, Sinn Fein, irish history books, politics books, political biographies, irish books, best history books, politics gifts, the galway homicides, ireland books, ireland book, fukuyama liberalism, Mary Lou McDonald, irish history books for adults, ira books, kitson irish war, Leo Varadkar, The Troubles in Northern Ireland, making sense of a united ireland, brendan o'leary