Benign anarchy : Alcoholics Anonymous in Ireland /

Butler, Shane.

Benign anarchy : Alcoholics Anonymous in Ireland / Shane Butler. - xiv, 253 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introducing AA -- Managing alcohol problems in Ireland in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries -- Alcoholics Anonymous in Ireland: origins, belefs and practices -- Alcoholics Anonymous in Ireland: peaceful coexistence with the Catholic Church -- AA, Alcoholism treatment and the Irish health care system -- Alcoholics Anonymous: an Irish institution -- The role of AA in a Nation of Drinkers.

In Benign Anarchy: Alcoholics Anonymous in Ireland, Shane Butler makes a thoughtful contribution to the growing literature that attempts to explain the status of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) as one of the most important social movements of the last century. Butler identifies the beginning as one meeting in Dublin in 1946, and the central personality in the first three decades of Irish AA as Sackville O'Conor-Mallins-a retired military officer who stumbled drunk into a Dublin AA meeting, immediately quit drinking, and subsequently devoted the last 32 years of his life to expanding AA in Ireland.

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Alcoholics Anonymous.


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