A warts-and-all account of Sinn Féin’s ascent to mainstream politics
Moore, an award-winning journalist from Derry, is a knowledgable guide. From Derry, she lost an uncle, Patrick Doherty, to the British army rampage on Bloody Sunday. As a correspondent for the Irish Examiner and other outlets she wrote scoops about misbehaviour in Sinn Féin and government parties.
In chronicling Sinn Féin’s arc she pauses to show the human cost of its tardy commitment to non-violence: Charles Love, 16, killed by an IRA bomb in Derry in 1990; Gemma Berezag, who killed herself in 2016, drained by caring for a husband severely disabled by the 1996 Docklands bombing. Such details taint Sinn Féin, which justified atrocities, but also underline its achievement in weaning the IRA off murder. Adams emerges as cold and machiavellian, which perhaps were essential qualities in his long game of cajoling and manipulating the movement into shedding republican dogma, bit by bit, until it became a constitutional player.
More discomfiting for Adams is Moore’s dissection of his handling of sexual abuse cases, including that of his brother Liam Adams, who was
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