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The Long Game
- Author
- Aoife Moore
- Narrator
- Roisin McGowan
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Publish Date
- 23 November 2023
- Run Time
- 8 hours 48 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
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Inside the rise of the political party, once subordinate to the IRA, that is on the brink of taking power in Ireland
Sinn Féin is the most popular political party in both Northern Ireland and the Republic. A movement once synonymous with a paramilitary campaign is on the brink of taking real power through purely democratic means. But if Sinn Féin has mastered the art of electoral politics, it remains strangely opaque. Who really runs the party? How is it funded? And what can we expect of it as a party of government?
Aoife Moore, Irish Journalist of the Year in 2021, explores these and other burning questions in The Long Game. Drawing on exclusive interviews with current and former members of Sinn Féin, she builds up a picture of a party undergoing a profound, and still incomplete , transformation. She looks at the key individuals and moments that put the party on its present course, and she explores tensions within the party and the wider republican movement.
Packed with revelatory details, The Long Game is a groundbreaking telling of contemporary Ireland's biggest and most elusive political story.
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"A powerful portrait of the inside world of an elusive political party ... an important work" - Sunday Independent
"Eye opening and brave ... carefully researched, judicious and packed with revelatory detail" - Fergal Keane
"An explosive read ... important and revelatory" - Business Post
©2023 Aoife Moore (P)2023 Penguin Audio
Critics Review
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A fierce political commentator
Derry Journal
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An explosive read ... important and revelatory
Business Post
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Eye-opening and brave ... carefully researched, judicious and packed with revelatory detail
Fergal Keane
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A compelling and revealing account of modern Sinn Féin ... written with gusto and verve
The Irish Times
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Aoife Moore is perfectly placed to deliver a powerful portrait of the inner workings of Sinn Féin ... an important work
Sunday Independent
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Painstakingly researched ... informed by countless inside sources
The Observer
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An incisive, well-written, if critical, insight into the Sinn Féin of the here and now
Irish Times
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[An] excellent, well-sourced account
The Telegraph
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Details
- Author
- Aoife Moore
- Narrator
- Roisin McGowan
- Duration
- 8 hours 48 minutes
- Release Date
- 23 November 2023
- ISBN
- 9781405967013
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Genre
- Political parties and party platforms, Political leaders and leadership, Political structures: democracy, Left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Nationalism, Elections and referenda / suffrage, Religion and politics
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin.Inside the rise of the political party, once subordinate to the IRA, that is on the brink of taking power in IrelandSinn Féin is the most popular political party in both Northern Ireland and the Republic. A movement once synonymous with a paramilitary campaign is on the brink of taking real power through purely democratic means. But if Sinn Féin has mastered the art of electoral politics, it remains strangely opaque. Who really runs the party? How is it funded? And what can we expect of it as a party of government?Aoife Moore, Irish Journalist of the Year in 2021, explores these and other burning questions in The Long Game. Drawing on exclusive interviews with current and former members of Sinn Féin, she builds up a picture of a party undergoing a profound, and still incomplete , transformation. She looks at the key individuals and moments that put the party on its present course, and she explores tensions within the party and the wider republican movement.Packed with revelatory details, The Long Game is a groundbreaking telling of contemporary Ireland's biggest and most elusive political story.* * *"A powerful portrait of the inside world of an elusive political party ... an important work" - Sunday Independent"Eye opening and brave ... carefully researched, judicious and packed with revelatory detail" - Fergal Keane"An explosive read ... important and revelatory" - Business Post©2023 Aoife Moore (P)2023 Penguin Audio
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