Men That God Made Mad: A Journey through Truth, Myth and Terror in Northern Ireland

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Derek Lundy

Men That God Made Mad

A Journey through Truth, Myth and Terror in Northern Ireland

Derek Lundy

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Vintage
15 November 2010

Biography: general; Biography: historical, political & military; British & Irish history; Early modern history: c 1450 to c 1700; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900; Politics & government

An utterly original and compelling book about Northern Ireland, as seen through the prism of Derek Lundy's own family

In this remarkable book, Belfast-born Derek Lundy uses the lives of three of his ancestors as a prism through which to examine what memory and the selective plundering of history has made of the truth in Northern Ireland.

In Ulster the name 'Lundy' is synonymous with 'traitor'. Robert Lundy was the Protestant governor of Londonderry in 1688, just before it came under siege by the Catholic Irish army of James II. Robert Lundy ordered the city's capitulation. Crying 'No Surrender', hardline Protestants prevented it and drove him away in disgrace. William Steel Dickson's legacy is a little different. A Presbyterian minister born in the mid-eighteenth century, he preached with famous eloquence in favour of using whatever means necessary to resist the tyranny of the English. Finally there is 'Billy' Lundy, born in 1890, the embodiment of what the Ulster Protestants had become by the beginning of World War I - a tribe united in their hostility to Catholics and to the concept of a united Ireland.

The lives of Robert Lundy, William Steel Dickson and Billy Lundy encapsulate many themes in the Ulster past. In telling their stories, Derek Lundy lays bare the harsh and murderous mythologies of Northern Ireland and gives us a revision of its history that seems particularly relevant in today's world.

By: Derek Lundy
Imprint: Vintage
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 246g
ISBN: 9780099552086
ISBN 10: 0099552086
Pages: 368
Publication Date: 15 November 2010
Recommended Age: From 0 years
Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , ELT Advanced , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Derek Lundy is the bestselling author of The Way of a Ship and Godforsaken Sea. He lives on Salt Spring Island, British Columbia.

Reviews for Men That God Made Mad: A Journey through Truth, Myth and Terror in Northern Ireland

Vivid, and so subtly drawn * The Times * A distinguised work: erudite, earnest, elucidative, even-handed in its attempt to probe the Northern Ireland Protestant Mind and memory-box * Independent on Sunday * Absorbing...it projects the experience of the province through a fascinating and thought-provoking prism... the writing throughout is terse, idiomatic and arresting, and the control of the material impressively assured * Guardian * Lundy proves an excellent guide to his people * Financial Times * [Lundy] has an undeniably vivid flair for anecdote * Sunday Telegraph * Personable and flavoursome * Literary Review *