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The Long Game

Inside Sinn Féin

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The Long Game

By: Aoife Moore
Narrated by: Roisin McGowan
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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 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.

©2023 Aoife Moore (P)2023 Penguin Audio Elections & Political Process Europe Politics & Government World Ireland

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Critic reviews

"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
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Very well written and researched. Hopefully a follow up chapter is added after the fallout of the next election.

Glad I listen to this before the 2024 Election…

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I was recommended this book by a colleague in the North for developing a better understanding of Sinn Féin North and South.

It was a hard listen in some parts. Depictions of an innocent Catholic being forced to be effectively a suicide bomber outside Derry and the description of the harrowing after effects on victims of the London bombings will live with the listener for a long time.

These hard sections are worth it for keeping in mind where Sinn Féin have come from and the (hopefully) exclusively peaceful direction they are going.

A hard listen in parts but really worthwhile

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A great listen, managed to get under the surface of the tightly guarded image. Recommend.

Very Informative

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Very interesting anyone thinking of voting Sinn Fein would do well to read or listen to this book

Eye opening

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A very good summary of the history of Sinn Fein and all that goes along with it.
Gives a very good insight to the workings of a party that never truly reveals itself. As someone who has grown up and voted for Sinn Fein, it has been interesting to get a look behind the curtain into the people and players. To be honest nothing in the book comes as a surprise, but well put together and presented.

Informative and interesting

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There were a lot of things that I didn't know but also quite a lot that I had forgotten. No political party can be fully trusted; TDs, MPs and MLAs should represent their constituency and the people who voted for them rather than a political party they belong to.

An insight and a reminder

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excellent book if you really want to understand the true nature of sinn fein. she seems to have really good contacts in the organisation. Read it if you interested in modern Irish politics

Well researhed

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