United Unionist Action Council (UUAC) Strike - A Selected Reading List

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Page Compiled By: Brendan Lynn

(There is no single text that deals exclusively with the UUAC Strike. Each of the following contain some information on the events.)

Bruce, Steve. (1992) The Red Hand: Protestant Paramilitaries in Northern Ireland. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Bruce, Steve. (1986) God Save Ulster: The Religion and Politics of Paisleyism. Oxford: Clarendon.
Hennessey, Thomas. (1996) A History of Northern Ireland 1920-1996. Dublin: Gill&Macmillan.
Mason, Roy. (1999) Paying the Price. London: Robert Hale.
Moloney, Ed., and Pollak, Andy. (1986) 'To the Brink and Back Again', in, Paisley. Dublin: Poolbeg Press Ltd.
Smyth, Clifford.(1987) Ian Paisley: Voice of Protestant Ulster. Edinburgh: Scottish Academic.
Taylor, Peter. (1999) Loyalists. London: Bloomsbury.


General Reference Texts:

Bardon, Jonathan. (1992) A History of Ulster. Belfast: Blackstaff Press.
Bew, Paul., and Gillespie, Gordon. (1999) Northern Ireland: A Chronology of the Troubles 1968-1999. Dublin: Gill and Macmillan.
Coogan, Tim Pat. (1995) The Troubles: Ireland's Ordeal 1966-1996 and the Search for Peace. London: Hutchinson.
Elliott, Sydney., and Flakes, W.D. (1999) Northern Ireland: A Political Directory 1968-1999 Belfast: Blackstaff Press.
McKittrick, David. (2000) Making Sense of the Troubles. Belfast: Blackstaff Press.
McKittrick, David., Kelters, Seamus., Feeney, Brian., and Thornton, Chris. (1999) Lost Lives: The stories of the men, women and children who died as a result of the Northern Ireland troubles. Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing.
Sutton, Malcolm. (1994) An Index of Deaths from the Conflict in Ireland 1969-1993. Belfast: Beyond the Pale. [See also the revised and updatedSutton Index of Deaths.]


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