{"id":3955,"date":"2024-10-28T15:40:39","date_gmt":"2024-10-28T14:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/?p=3955"},"modified":"2024-10-28T15:40:39","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T14:40:39","slug":"killing-thatcher-rory-carroll-in-conversation-with-sinead-morrissey-at-the-culture-lab-newcastle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/?p=3955","title":{"rendered":"<h6>Killing Thatcher: Rory Carroll in conversation with Sin\u00e9ad Morrissey<\/h6> at The Culture Lab Newcastle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fsn-row full-width-row fsn-69f2035bdbf8a light\" style=\"background-repeat:repeat;background-position:left top;background-attachment:scroll;background-size:auto;\"><div class=\"container-fluid\"><div class=\"row\"><div class=\"col-sm-12\"><div class=\"fsn-column-inner fsn-69f2035bdc251 light\"><div class=\"fsn-code fsn-69f2035bdc412\"><div style=\"padding:56.25% 0 0 0;position:relative;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1022024785?h=6be049abf1&amp;badge=0&amp;autopause=0&amp;player_id=0&amp;app_id=58479\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" title=\"17-10-24\"><\/iframe><\/div><script src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/api\/player.js\"><\/script><\/div><div class=\"fsn-text fsn-69f2035bdc54a\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This event features author Rory Carroll in conversation with Sin\u00e9ad Morrissey as they talk about his new book, Killing Thatcher: the IRA, the Manhunt and the Long War on the Crown.<\/p>\n<p>Brighton, 1984: the IRA come astonishingly close to killing Margaret Thatcher and to wiping out the British Cabinet \u2013 an extraordinary assassination attempt linked to the Northern Ireland Troubles and the most daring conspiracy against the Crown since the Gunpowder Plot. In a gripping blend of true crime and political history\u00a0<strong>Killing Thatcher: the IRA, the Manhunt and the Long War on the Crown<\/strong>\u00a0investigates the story behind the bombing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rory Carroll<\/strong>\u00a0is the Guardian\u2019s Ireland correspondent and has reported from the Balkans, Afghanistan, Iraq, Africa, Latin America and the United States. His first book, Comandante: Hugo Chavez\u2019s Venezuela, was an Economist Book of the Year and BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sin\u00e9ad Morrissey<\/strong>\u00a0is Professor of Creative Writing at Newcastle University.<\/p>\n<p>This event took place in the Culture Lab on the 17th of October 2024<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,5],"tags":[874,532,875],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3955"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3955"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3979,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3955\/revisions\/3979"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}