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Francis Stuart Ross' Smashing H-Block
Smashing H-Block: ThePensiveQuill.am, April 28, 2012 (review by Sandy Boyer)
Smashing H-Block: Derry Journal, January 25, 2012 (review by Eamonn McCann)
How ordinary people really shaped the events of 1981: Belfast Telegraph, January 13, 2011 (by Eamonn McCann)
Smashing H-Block: BobbySandsTrust.com, November 4, 2011 (review by Gerry O'Hare)
H-Block era bigger than civil rights: Derry Journal, September 23, 2011
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Peter Taylor's Talking to Terrorists: A Personal Journey from the IRA to Al Qaeda
Book review – Talking to terrorists: Daily News & Analysis (Mumbai), April 8, 2012 (review by Faizur Rahman)
Talking to Terrorists by Peter Taylor – review: Guardian.co.uk, September 13, 2011 (review by Ian Pindar)
Talking to Terrorists – Peter Taylor (EIBF Review): Edinburgh Guide, August 20, 2011 (review by Allan Alstead)
Talking to Terrorists, By Peter Taylor: The Independent, April 15, 2011 (review by David McKittrick)
Compromise starts with a conversation: Sunday Business Post, April 10, 2011 (review by Andrew Lynch)
Brokers of the endgame: Belfast Telegraph, April 9, 2011 (review by Maurice Hayes)
Looking terror in the eye: Irish Examiner, April 2, 2011 (by Richard Fitzpatrick)
Talking to Terrorists – A Personal Journey from the IRA to Al Qaeda by Peter Taylor: The Scotsman, March 11, 2011 (review by Roger Hutchinson)
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Garret Fitzgerald's Just Garret: Tales from the Political Front Line
Biography – Just Garret by Garret Fitzgerald: Irish Independent, November 19, 2011 (review by Ewan MacKenna)
FitzGerald's political strife and family life: The Irish Times, October 22, 2011 (review by Patrick Honohan)
How Irish suburbia became focus of Soviet spy network: Sunday Independent, December 19, 2010 (by Liam Collins)
What a life: The Irish Times, December 18, 2010 (by Olivia O'Leary)
Time for Garret to start a new chapter: Irish Independent, December 18, 2010 (by John Cooney)
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Fr Sean McManus' My American Struggle for Justice in Northern Ireland
Living in America, ending injustice in Ireland: RealChangeNews.org, October 26, 2011 (review by Joe Martin)
McManus book for Woodlawn launch: Irish Echo, September 28, 2011
A landmark book that leaves readers wanting more: Irish Echo, August 4, 2011
The joys of, eh, Latvian democracy: Irish Echo, July 27, 2011 (scroll down)
Top ten Irish summer reads – books to sink your teeth into (scroll down for "My American Struggle For Justice in Northern Ireland"): Irish Voice/IrishCentral.com, July 12, 2011 (by Cahir O'Doherty & Bernice Malone)
Fr. Mc Manus to address NY Convention: Irish World, July 6, 2011
Large turn out for McManus book launch: Irish Echo, June 29, 2011
Together again on Capitol Hill: Irish World, June 16, 2011
Righteously right in Irish America: The Irish Times, May 21, 2011 (review by Richard English)
McManus launches his memoirs in D.C.: Irish Echo, May 4, 2011
Opposition to Irish justice in DC was – Irish!: Belfast Media, April 14, 2011 (by Gráinne McWilliams)
Ireland's not-so-silent witness in the United States: Impartial Reporter, March 31, 2011 (by Sarah Saunderson)
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Anthony McIntyre's Good Friday: The Death of Irish Republicanism
"Good Friday. The death of Irish Republicanism" by Anthony McIntyre – a review: SluggerOToole.com
Days Like These…: Verbal Magazine, Issue 22 (review by Sam Millar)
Death of the dream?: Tribune Magazine (UK), November 26, 2008 (review by John Coulter)
Political three-card shuffle or surrender by republicans?: The News Letter, November 18, 2008 (by Liam Clarke)
Blanket dissent in the ranks: The Irish Times, November 8, 2008 (by Gerry Moriarty)
The new Good Book for all Unionists: (from the Irish Daily Star, November 10, 2008, by John Coulter)
A peace of their minds: Boston Globe, November 6, 2008 (by Kevin Cullen)
Why the IRA lost its long and futile battle: The Sunday Times, August 10, 2008 (by Liam Clarke)
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Kevin Myers's Watching the Door: A Memoir 1971-1978
Kevin Myers' 'Watching the Door': SluggerOToole.com, November 3, 2011 (review by John L Murphy)
Watching the Door: The Observer, March 1, 2009 (review by Robert McCrum)
Watching the Door – Cheating Death in 1970s Belfast: The Observer, February 22, 2009 (review by Ian Pindar)
Testimonies from the Troubles: The Observer, May 27, 2008 (by Andrew Anthony)
Guns and girls: The Guardian, April 19, 2008 (review by Chris Petit)
Watching the Door, by Kevin Myers – Staying alive in Belfast's dark age: The Independent, March 7, 2008 (review by Patricia Craig)
Watching The Door – Cheating Death In 1970s Belfast, by Kevin Myers: The Times, March 22, 2008 (review by Andrew Mueller)
A tale of the Troubles: Daily Telegraph, March 29, 2008 (review by Melanie McDonagh)
Here comes trouble: New Statesman, March 27, 2008 (review by Jean Hannah Edelstein)
Sex, guns and the IRA: The Independent, March 8, 2008 (extract)
Bullies, bigots murderers: Daily Mail, March 14, 2008 (review by Goeffrey Wheatcroft)
We need to talk about Kevin: Sunday Independent, November 26, 2006 (by Ciara Dwyer)
Myered in the Troubles: (from the Irish News, November 11, 2006, by Luke Ryan)
Myers brings a light touch to dark times: Sunday Business Post, November 12, 2006 (review by Eibhir Mulqueen)
Strange bedfellows: Sunday Life, November 5, 2006 (by Ciaran McGuigan)
So much more than an Irishman's diary: Sunday Tribune, November 5, 2006 (review by Terry Prone)
Man of war: Village, October 26, 2006 (by Justine McCarthy)
Myers' bedroom exploits make rattling good read: Sunday Business Post, October 29, 2006 (review by Pat Leahy)
It's our duty to remember those many blameless souls whom violence caressed with the kiss of Cain . . .: Irish Independent, October 28, 2006 (by Kevin Myers)
Caught between the devils and the IRA: The Sunday Times, October 22, 2006 (extract)
Girls and guns in Belfast: The Sunday Times, October 15, 2006 (extract)
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D M Leeson's The Black and Tans: British Police and Auxiliaries in the Irish War of Independence, 1920-1
Black and Tans story is not so black and white: Irish Independent, September 17, 2011 (John Spain)
Come out, ye Black and Tans: The Irish Times, August 27, 2011 (review by Eunan O'Halpin)
Review – The Black and Tans – British Police and Auxiliaries in the Irish War of Independence 1920-1921. By DM Leeson: Camden New Journal, September 1, 2011 (review by Peter Berresford Ellis)
Black and Tans were not so bad says new book --- savagery in Irish War of Independence on all sides: Irish Voice/IrishCentral.com, August 29, 2011 (by Patrick Roberts)
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Richard O'Rawe's Afterlives: The Hunger Strike and the Secret Offer That Changed Irish History
Taking SF on..and winning!: (from the Sunday World, November 21, 2011, review by Hugh Jordan)
Follow-up is one man's quest to prove he is right: (from the Irish News, November 1, 2010 review by Allison Morris)
Me and You and a Dog Named Boo: ThePensiveQuill.am, November 10, 2010 (review by Anthony McIntyre)
Adams starved hunger strikers of the truth: Belfast Telegraph, December 30, 2010 (by Richard O'Rawe)
Bradley, O'Rawe frozen out for breaking ranks: (from the Sunday Times, October 31, 2011, by Liam Clarke)
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Gerard Murphy's The Year of Disappearances: Political Killings in Cork, 1920-1921
The Irish killing fields: Irish Independent, July 9, 2011 (review by Declan Cashin)
Author owns up to errors in IRA Cork deaths book: Sunday Tribune, January 16, 2011 (by John Downes)
Rumour, gossip and coincidence: The Irish Times, December 11, 2010 (review by Caoimhe Nic Dháibhéid)
Eoghan Harris looks at a new book by Gerard Murphy that describes the 'descent into savagery' by the Cork No 1 Brigade of the IRA in 1920 and 1921: Irish Examiner, November 5, 2010
The IRA campaign in Cork against Protestants and non-republicans was on a truly vast scale: Irish Independent, November 12, 2010 (by Kevin Myers)
Historical detective trail reveals 'ethnic cleansing' by IRA in Cork: Sunday Independent, November 7, 2010 (review by John-Paul McCarthy)
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Mary Kenny's Crown and Shamrock: Love and Hate Between Ireland and the British Monarchy
Irish eyes might smile at last on the Queen: Daily Telegraph, May 2, 2011 (review by Charles Moore)
Crown and Shamrock: Love and Hate Between Ireland and the British Monarchy by Mary Kenny (Nov 1): Sunday Tribune, November 1, 2009 (review by Tom Widger)
Edward VII – deathbed convert to Catholicis: Telegraph.co.uk, September 29, 2009 (by Christopher Howse)
Anglo-Irish relations get the royal treatment: Sunday Business Post, October 11, 2009 (review by Andrew Lynch)
Crown and Shamrock by Mary Kenny – review: Daily Telegraph, November 21, 2009 (review by Anthony Howard)
The Republic of Ireland's secret love affair with Queen Elizabeth: Belfast Telegraph, October 6, 2009 (extract)
Dealt a fair royal hand?: The Irish Times, September 26, 2009 (review by Jonathan Bardon)
God save Ireland's love for the royals: Irish Independent, September 12, 2009 (by Bruce Arnold)
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