COMPLETELY REVISED & UPDATED EDITIONMaking Sense of the Troubles is David Mc Kittrick & David Mc Vea's classic history of the Troubles now completely revised & updated First published ten years ago Making Sense of the Troubles is widely regarded as the most 'comprehensive considered & compassionate' (Irish Times) history of the Troubles in Northern Ireland Written by a distinguished journalist & a teacher of history in Northern Ireland it surveys the roots of the problems from 1921 onwards the descent into violence in the late 60s & the three terrible decades that followed Mc Kittrick & Mc Vea have now fully updated the book to take into account the momentous events of the last ten years including the disbanding of the IRA Ian Paisley's deal with the Republicans & the historic power-sharing government in Belfast' An updated reissue of a collaborative study published 12 years ago to rave reviews as a frank accurate & authoritative narrative of events which should be required reading for anyone hoping to understand what had been going on in the North' Irish Independent'I would strongly advocate that it be made compulsory reading for everyone in Northern Ireland because for the first time it is our history all of it warts & all presented in a clear & understandable way' Irish News' Extraordinarily well-balanced sane comprehensive & rich in sober understatement' Glasgow Herald' Compellingly written & very even-handed By far the clearest account of what happened in the Northern Ireland conflict & more importantly why it happened' Irish News David Mc Kittrick has reported on the Northern Ireland troubles since the 1970s After working for the Irish Times & BBC he has been Ireland correspondent of the London Independent since 1985 Awards include the Orwell Prize correspondent of the year & Belfast journalist of the year David Mc Vea graduated in politics & modern history from Queen's University Belfast & has an MA from Sussex University He was head of the politics department of a Belfast grammar school where he taught both history & political studies