New York Prepares to Celebrate Everything Irish While a Small Press in Chelsea Works to Remember All that Is Ireland.
Ausubo Press will publish Anthony McIntyre's "Good Friday, The Death of Irish Republicanism."
New York, NY (PRWEB) March 12, 2008 -- As New York prepares to celebrate Saint Patrick's Day, a small press in Chelsea enters the last phase of production for a provocative new book written by one of the most prominent Irish Republican voices from Northern Ireland. "Good Friday, The Death of Irish Republicanism", a chronicle raising serious questions about post-Good Friday Agreement Irish Republican strategies, will be published by Ausubo Press this Summer.
Written by journalist, former political prisoner and activist from the North of Ireland, Anthony McIntyre, Good Friday is a contemporaneous commentary on the peace process as it was unfolding, before the spin masters could get to work and have their version of history received as the established wisdom. Good Friday challenges the "organized forgetting" of the standard Republican narrative and is a much needed historical document for anyone wanting to understand the Sinn Fein Peace Process from an Irish Republican perspective.
McIntyre's compilation of articles is a running commentary on how the Good Friday Agreement (GFA) renounces the Republican principles that ignited the Easter Rising against the British in 1916. The partial independence achieved by Ireland in 1922 produced a partitioned country with six counties in the North still under British rule today. The GFA promised to bring decades of unrest and violence in the North to a halt if the Irish people agreed to change their Constitution and surrender their claim to the six counties. Good Friday, The Death of Irish Republicanism documents the continuing sectarian violence despite their "Yes" vote, and reveals how censorship and collusion on the part of Sinn Fein and IRA veterans like Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness help sustain the British occupation of Northern Ireland.
Irish Republican Deirdre Fennessy of Chicago asserts, "Anthony McIntyre has seen the struggle from the inside out and his unique voice doesn't flinch from telling it like it is. Nobody can skewer the ridiculous specter of former comrades posing as revolutionaries quite as he can. The book belongs on every shelf that needs a behind-the-scenes understanding of what went wrong with the GFA and the so-called peace process." Chuck McLaughlin of the New Mexico chapter of The Irish Freedom Committee affirms, "Anthony's writing is a cross between Jimmy Breslin and Hunter S. Thompson."
Anthony McIntyre spent 18 years in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh Prison. Upon release he completed his PhD at Queen's University Belfast. He left the Republican Movement in 1998 after the endorsement of the Good Friday Agreement, and went on to become a journalist. Ausubo Press is an independent multicultural, multilingual publishing company. For ARCs please add your name, editorial affiliation and address here: http://www.ausubopress.com/feedback.html. For pre-orders visit Barnes & Noble or your favorite on-line bookseller.
Contact:
William Cadiz
917.573.6858
http://ausubopress.com
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