Policing Ireland's Twisted History

ISBN: 1462064671

Author: Wilson, Alan M.

Condition: New

Product Description Ireland has long been a country of conflict. More than 400 years ago, the occupying English "planted" pre-Celtic Scots in the northern province of Ulster and divested the native Irish Celts of the land their ancestors owned for 2,000 years. This created a deep-seated enmity between the English and Irish, Protestant and Catholic-and it finally exploded in the Troubles. Author Alan M. Wilson was on the front lines for the bloodbath that tore Northern Ireland apart from the late 1960s through the first years of the twenty-first century. Policing Ireland's Twisted History reveals Wilson's remarkable, true story of growing up in Belfast and serving in the Royal Ulster Constabulary as an inspector and as a member of an elite anti-terrorism unit. Wilson's only goal was to help protect the innocent on both sides. Unfortunately, he became a target himself. Brutally honest and unflinching, Wilson traces his experiences serving Ireland's divided society for nearly ten years. From watching friends die to the tit-for-tat murders occurring on the streets to staring death in the eye more than once, Wilson reveals the deep, gut-wrenching search for the meaning of it all in the midst of the world's longest-running terrorist situation. A firsthand look at the Northern Ireland conflict, Policing Ireland's Twisted History offers an eye-opening, intimate examination of this devastating struggle. About the Author Alan M. Wilson retired in 2006 after 25 year as Director of Engineering for a major US Foods manufacturing Corporation. He had studied and practiced engineering in Ireland but when terrorists chose to kill his friends and neighbours he joined the Royal Ulster Constabulary where he served for almost ten years in the most dangerous places in Ulster's bloody Troubles. He now enjoys living in cottage country in Ontario Canada.