Northern Ireland

Rona M. Fields, formerly associate professor of psychology at Clark University, is a psychologist and sociologist who has focused her research on social prejudice and violence in many different countries. While associate director of the National Center on the Study of Corporal Punishment and Its Alternatives, her 1973 report on the prevailing conditions in Northern Ireland was censored and withdrawn from the British market. Northern Ireland: Society Under Siege is an expanded analysis of that research., Alfred McClung Lee is professor emeritus of sociology and anthropology, Brooklyn College, City University of New York, and visiting scholar at Drew University. Dr. Lee's research has emphasized the study of conflict, with special reference to the Irish.

Foreword

Preface






Introduction: Ireland-The Victim



Psychological Genocide: Patriot Games Children Play



Psychotechnology: Its Effects



Social Control Mechanisms: Putting a Society on the Run



Women of Ireland: Slaves of Slaves



The British Army: In Command or on the Run?



The Blood of Martyrs



Social Control: Irish Ideology and the Mass Unconscious Appendix

Notes

Index