Ed Moloney's Paisley: From Demagogue to Democrat? Paisley, by Ed Moloney & Great Hatred, Little Room, by Jonathan Powell: The Independent, May 2, 2008 (review by David McKittrick) Bedevilled by the detail: Sunday Independent, April 13, 2008 (review by Laura Servilan Brown) An anointed demagogue with few principles: Sunday Business Post, March 23, 2008 (review by Diarmaid Ferriter) The Paisley puzzle: Irish Independent, March 1, 2008 (review by Maurice Hayes) Paisley's remarkable journey: (from the Irish Times, February 23, 2008, extract) Buy Moloney's Paisley—in US $ Or in UK£ Or in CDN$ Or in €

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Jonathan Powell's Great Hatred, Little Room: Making Peace in Northern Ireland Paisley, by Ed Moloney & Great Hatred, Little Room, by Jonathan Powell: The Independent, May 2, 2008 (review by David McKittrick) Convoluted path to an unlikely peace: Financial Times, April 28, 2008 (review by John Murray Brown) Great Hatred, Little Room – Paying the price of peace: The Spectator, April 8, 2008 (review by Dean Godson) A chronicle of craven surrender: Daily Mail, April 15, 2008 (review by Peter Hitchens) A triumph of stamina: Daily Telegraph, April 4, 2008 (review by Leo McKinstry) Agreeing to differ: The Guardian, April 5, 2008 (review by David Trimble) Making peace in Northern Ireland: Daily Telegraph, April 4, 2008 (review by Andrew Gimson) Great Hatred, Little Room: Making Peace in Northern Ireland by Jonathan Powell: The Times, March 29, 2008 (review by George Brock) Fudges, nudges and titbit revelations in new book: Irish News, March 24, 2008 (by Tom Kelly) Jonathan Powell – every prime minister needs him: The Sunday Times, March 23, 2008 (by Martin Ivens) You can laugh about it now ...: The Observer, March 23, 2008 (review by Sean O'Hagan) Jitters and giggles at the 'hand of history' talks: The Guardian, March 19, 2008 (extract) Top Blair aide's book recalls talks in Derry: Derry Journal, March 19, 2008 Great Hatred, Little Room: Making Peace in Northern Ireland by Jonathan Powell: The Sunday Times, March 23, 2008 (review by Max Hastings) Powell on ... Clinton nodding off: The Guardian, March 19, 2008 (extract) The £200m inquiry – McGuinness would have settled for apology: The Guardian, March 19, 2008 (extract) 'Everyone was nervous – Gerry Adams' hands were visibly shaking...': Irish Independent, March 22, 2008 (review by John Cooney) Meeting the arms decommissioners: The Guardian, March 18, 2008 (extract) Talking to the enemy – the secret intermediaries who contacted the IRA: The Guardian, March 18, 2008 (extract) A moment in history – sitting down to talk with Adams and McGuinness: The Guardian, March 17, 2008 (extract) Tea and biscuits at a safe house in Derry: The Guardian, March 17, 2008 (extract) Buy Powell's Great Hatred, Little Room—in UK £ Or in €

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Charlie McGuire's Roddy Connolly and the Struggle for Socialism in Ireland Connolly's doomed striving for socialism: Sunday Business Post, April 20, 2008 (review by Andrew Lynch) Buy McGuire's Roddy Connolly and the Struggle for Socialism in Ireland—in US $ Or in UK£ Or in CDN$ Or in €

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Dermot Meleady's Redmond: The Parnellite Unravelling Redmond – the hero, villain and enigma: Sunday Tribune, April 20, 2008 (review by Ronan O'Brien) Buy Meleady's Redmond—in US $ Or in UK£ Or in CDN$ Or in €

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Dermot Keogh & Andrew McCarthy's The Making of the Irish Constitution, 1937 De Valera and the one true church: Irish Independent, February 2, 2008 (review by John Bruton) Buy Keogh & McCarthy's The Making of the Irish Constitution, 1937—in US $ Or in UK£ Or in CDN$ Or in €

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Paula Wylie's Ireland and the Cold War: Recognition and Diplomacy 1949-1963 Ireland and the Cold War: Irish Democrat, February 4, 2008 (review by Joe Jamison) Buy Wylie's Ireland and the Cold War—in US $ Or in UK£ Or in CDN$ Or in €

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Kevin Myers's Watching the Door: A Memoir 1971-1978 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) Buy Myers' Watching the Door—in US $ Or in UK£ Or in CDN$ Or in €

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Danine Farquharson & Sean Farrell (eds) Shadows of the Gunmen: Violence and Culture in Modern Ireland How the politics of violence seep into life: Sunday Tribune, March 9, 2008 (review by Frank Hanover) Buy Farquharson & Farrell's Shadows of the Gunmen—in US $ Or in UK£ Or in CDN$ Or in €

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Malachi O'Doherty's The Telling Year Review – The Telling Year: Fortnight, February 2008 (review by Mick Fealty) The Telling Year: The Blanket, August 10, 2007 (review by Pól Ó Muirí) A telling history: (from the Irish News, May 20, 2007 by AP Maginness) Buy O'Doherty's The Telling Year—in US $ Or in UK£ Or in CDN$ Or in €

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Mary Daly and Margaret O'Callaghan (eds) 1916 in 1966: Commemorating the Easter Rising '66 and one generation's inspiration: Sunday Independent, March 23, 2008 (review by Dermot Bolger) Buy Daly & O'Callaghan's 1916 in 1966—in US $ Or in UK£ Or in CDN$ Or in €

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David Miller's Queen's Rebels: Ulster Loyalism in Historic Perspective Queen's Rebels – Ulster loyalism in historical perspective: Irish Democrat, March 7, 2008 (review by Ruaírí Ó Domhnaíll) Buy Miller's Queen's Rebels—in US $ Or in UK£ Or in CDN$ Or in €

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Thomas Hennessey's Northern Ireland: The Origins of the Troubles The Origin of the Troubles: Irish Democrat, February 12, 2008 (review by Roy Johnston) The Origins of the Troubles: Irish Democrat, April 5, 2006 (review by Michael McCann) How the Pandora's Box of the North was opened: Irish Independent, December 3, 2005 (review by Maurice Hayes) Buy Hennessey's Northern Ireland: The Origins of the Troubles—in US $ Or in UK£ Or in CDN$ Or in €

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Susannah U. Bruce's The Harp and the Eagle: Irish-American Volunteers and the Union Army, 1861-1865 'The Harp and the Eagle' – Earning a Foothold: TheWildGeese.com, January 21, 2008 (review by Michael Kraus) The Harp and the Eagle, A Book Review: Catholic Exchange, January 7, 2007 (review by Benet Exton) Jewish Ireland in the Age of Joyce: Irish Voice/IrishAbroad.com, December 20, 2006 (review by Cahir O'Doherty) Buy Bruce's The Harp and the Eagle—in US $ Or in UK£ Or in CDN$ Or in €

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Stephen Walker's Forgotten Soldiers: The Irishmen Shot at Dawn Emotional accounts of the war to end all wars: Sunday Business Post, March 2, 2008 (review by Tim Pat Coogan) 'Forgotten Soldiers' – the Irishmen shot at dawn: Fermanagh Herald, January 2, 2008 Righting the wrong: (from the Irish News, December 1, 2007 by AP Maginness) British general's brutal ruling on Falls man: Irelandclick.com, November 30, 2007 (review by Ciarán Barnes) Part two – Lest they forget... the extraordinary battle to clear loved ones' names: Belfast Telegraph, October 26, 2007 (extract) The truth behind the Irish soldiers shot at dawn: Belfast Telegraph, October 25, 2007 (extract) The hell where youth and laughter go: Sunday Business Post, November 11, 2007 (extract) Buy Walker's Forgotten Soldiers—in US $ Or in UK£ Or in CDN$ Or in €

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Diarmaid Ferriter's Judging Dev: A Reassessment of the Life and Legacy of Eamon De Valera 'The Civil War was a joke, but it was an obscene and bloody joke': Sunday Independent, March 2, 2008 (by Con Houlihan) Judging Dev: Ulster Herald, November 8, 2007 Let's deal with our historical figures as humans — not gods or devils: Irish Examiner, November 3, 2007 (by Ryle Dwyer) De Valera 'lacked emotional intelligence' about partition: (from the Irish News, October 22, 2007 – by Margaret Canning) Badly needed corrective to vilification of Long Fellow: Sunday Independent, October 21, 2007 (by Eoghan Harris) New book tries to reclaim Dev's legacy: Irish Independent, October 16, 2007 Being an American did not save Dev in 1916 book says: (from the Irish News, October 13, 2007) Long fellow writ large: Sunday Business Post, October 14, 2007 (review by Emmanuel Kehoe) Buy Ferriter's Judging Dev—in US $ Or in UK£ Or in CDN$ Or in €

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Steve Bruce's Paisley: Religion and Politics in Northern Ireland Who really brought peace to Belfast?: The Times, February 27, 20008 (review by George Brock) Buy Bruce's Paisley—in US $ Or in UK£ Or in CDN$ Or in €

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Ed Moloney's A Secret History of the IRA – 2nd Edition Who really brought peace to Belfast?: The Times, February 27, 20008 (review by George Brock)       First edition The Supreme Commander: The Blanket, June 16, 2003 (by Anthony McIntyre) Disturbing Secrets: The Blanket, March 21, 2003 (review by Liam O Ruairc) The Taming of a Terrorist: New York Review of Books, January 29, 2003 (review by Fintan O'Toole) Opportunists and tacticians, but poor strategists: The Spectator (review by David Trimble) Teething troubles: The Observer, November 24, 2002 (review by Henry McDonald) A Wilderness of Mirrors: The Blanket (review by Seaghán Ó Murchú) The Twisting Path to Peace: New York Newsday, November 17, 2002 (review by Conal Urquhart) A balancing act: The Blanket, November 14, 2002 (review by Martin Patriquin) Peace of the grave: Macleans, November 18, 2002 (review by Brian Bethune) Thinker, toiler, soldier, spy: Boston Globe, November 10, 2002 (review by Anna Mundow) 'A Secret History of the IRA' – An Unfinished Conflict: New York Times, November 10, 2002 (review by Murray Sayle) Moloney's 'A Secret History' exposes IRA's webs of intrigue: Daily Yomiuri, November 10, 2002 (review by Declan Hayes) Revealing Secrets: The Blanket, October 6, 20002 (Editorial) A Secret History of the IRA: The Blanket (review by Deaglan O Donghaile) The Real IRA: The Blanket (review by Eamonn McCann) Read It And Weep: The Blanket, October 24, 2002 (review by Mick Hall) The Secret History of the IRA: Fortnight, November 2002 (review by Henry Patterson) Secrets and lies: Financial Times, October 18, 2002 (review by Roy Foster) The political treachery at the heart of the IRA: Daily Telegraph, October 17, 2002 (review by Toby Harnden) That Book: The Blanket, October 4, 2002 (review by Tommy McKearney) CEASEFIRE: (Chapter 15 from A Secret History of the IRA by Ed Moloney) Three words that led from Armalite to ballot box: Sunday Business Post October 6, 2002 (article by Tom McGurk) Exposing Adams' secrets to the light of day: Sunday Independent, October 6, 2002 (review by Jim Cusack) A Secret History of the IRA by Ed Moloney: Sunday Business Post, October 6, 2002 (review by Niall Stanage) End Run: Washington Post, October 6, 2002 (review by Fred Barbash) The wily ways of a boy from Ballymurphy: Belfast Telegraph, October 5, 2002 (review by Barry White) Betrayal on the high seas: Irish Echo, October 2, 2002 (extract) Buy Moloney's A Secret History of the IRA—in US $ Or in UK£ Or in CDN$ Or in €

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Kenneth Bloomfield's A Tragedy of Errors: The Government and Misgovernment of Northern Ireland Who really brought peace to Belfast?: The Times, February 27, 20008 (review by George Brock) Sins of omission: Irish Independent, April 21, 2007 (review by Maurice Hayes) Former head of civil service says united Ireland may be better for northerners: (from the Irish News, April 6, 2007 by William Graham) Buy Bloomfield's A Tragedy of Errors—in US $ Or in UK£ Or in CDN$ Or in €

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R F Foster's Luck and the Irish: A Brief History of Change, 1970-2000 Cuddling Up With the Celtic Tiger: New York Sun, February 27, 2008 (review by Adam Kirsch) Ireland's bumpy road to modernity: Daily Telegraph, January 12, 2008 (review by Leo Mckinstry) Riding the Celtic Tiger: Daily Telegraph, January 5, 2008 (review by Bernard O'Donoghue) One, two, or several Irelands?: The Times, December 5, 2007 (review by Diarmid Ferriter) A land of Botox and Mercs: The Guardian, December 1, 2007 (review by Joseph O'Connor) Not all stout and oysters: The Sunday Times, November 18, 2007 (review by Michael Burleigh) Why Irish eyes are smiling: The Independent, November 16, 2007 (review by Ivan Fallon) Luck and the Irish by R. F. Foster: The Times, November 3, 2007 (review by Roy Hattersley) Revising history makes us rub our eyes!: Derry Journal, November 6, 2007 Not the place it used to be: The Spectator, October 17, 2007 (review by Paul Bew) Buy Foster's Luck and the Irish—in US $ Or in UK£ Or in CDN$ Or in €

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Clair Willis's That Neutral Island: A Cultural History of Ireland During the Second World War Staying neutral: The Guardian, February 9, 2008 (review by Ian Pindar) The long reach of war: Boston Globe, January 13, 2008 (review by Katherine A. Powers) The effects of Ireland's WWII policy of neutrality: Washington Times, September 9, 2007 (review by Martin Rubin) The Neutral Island – A Cultural History of Ireland During the Second World War: The Sunday Times, August 19, 2007 (review by Charles Townshend) That Neutral Island, by Clair Wills: Independent on Sunday, May 13, 2007 (review by Cal McCrystal) How Ireland closed its eyes to war: Sunday Business Post, March 11, 2007 (review by Dermot Bolger) Damned if you don't: The Guardian, March 17, 2007 (review by Blake Morrison) 'A ban on feeling': The Guardian, March 10, 2007 (by Clair Wills) Buy Willis's That Neutral Island—in US $ Or in UK£ Or in CDN$ Or in €

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Keith Jeffery's Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson: A Political Soldier Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson: Irish Democrat, February 4, 2008 (review by Ruaírí Ó Domhnaill) Buy Jeffery's Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson—in US $ Or in UK£ Or in CDN$ Or in €

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Jim Cusack & Henry McDonald's UVF: The Endgame 'He articulated voice of the new voiceless': Sunday Life, February 3, 2008 (extract) Buy Cusack & McDonald's UVF: The Endgame—in US $ Or in UK£ Or in CDN$ Or in €

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Peter Duffy's The Killing of Major Denis Mahon: A Mystery of Old Ireland Bringing the Famine Back Home: Catholic Sun (Syracuse), October 25, 2007 (review by Connie Cissell) Famine's Villains: New York Times, December 9, 2007 (review by Cormac Ó Gráda) Potatoes, politics, and murder in Ireland: Boston Globe, October 2, 2007 (review by Michael Kenney) Buy Duffy's The Killing of Major Denis Mahon—in US $ Or in UK£ Or in CDN$ Or in €

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Tom Herron and John Lynch's After Bloody Sunday: Representation, Ethics, Justice Bloody Sunday – the truths behind a terrible event: Sunday Tribune, January 13, 2008 (review by Frank Hanover) Buy O Herron & Lynch's After Bloody Sunday—in US $ Or in UK£ Or in CDN$ Or in €

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Mairtin O Cathain's Irish Republicanism in Scotland, 1858-1916: Fenians in Exile Irish Republicanism in Scotland 1858-1916: Irish Democrat, January 9, 2008 (review by Stephen Coyle) Buy O Cathain's Irish Republicanism in Scotland—in US $ Or in UK£ Or in CDN$ Or in €

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Andrew Higgins Wyndham's Re-Imagining Ireland Ireland in a Global Age: H-Net.org, June 2007 (review by Mark Doyle) Re-Imagining Ireland: The Blanket, October 24, 2007 (review by Seaghán Ó Murchú) Buy Wyndham's Re-Imagining Ireland—in US $ Or in UK£ Or in CDN$ Or in €

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Richard Aldous's Great Irish Speeches History revealed through the words of those making it: Sunday Independent, January 6, 2008 (review by John S Doyle) Buy Aldous's Great Irish Speeches—in US $ Or in UK£ Or in CDN$ Or in €

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Daniel Cassidy's How the Irish Invented Slang: The Secret Language of the Crossroads How we gave the Yanks the gift of our gab: Irish Independent, December 4, 2007 (review by Ed Power) Humdinger of a Project – Tracing Slang to Ireland: New York Times, November 8, 2007 (by Corey Kilgannon) How the Irish invented American slang!: Derry Journal, August 7, 2007 Irish, and all that jazz: Belfast Telegraph, August 2, 2007 (by Eamonn McCann) Buy Cassidy's How the Irish Invented Slang—in US $ Or in UK£ Or in CDN$ Or in €

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Brendan O'Brein's The Story of Ireland Irish history made easy: Sunday Tribune, December 9, 2007 (review by Anne Flaherty) Adolescence is hard but help lies between the covers: Sunday Independent, December 9, 2007 (by Celia Keenan, scroll down) Buy O'Brien's The Story of Ireland—in US $ Or in UK£ Or in CDN$ Or in €

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Peter F. Stevens's The Voyage of the Catalpa: A Perilous Journey and Six Irish Rebels' Flight to Freedom A Fenian escapade: Irish Democrat, May 22, 2003 (review by Ruairí Ó Domhnaill) The Voyage of the Catalpa: Irish American News, March 2002 (review by Frank West) — Part Two (April 2002) Buy Stevens's The Voyage of the Catalpa—in US $ Or in UK£ Or in CDN$ Or in €

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Paul Bew's Ireland: The Politics of Enmity 1789-2006 Partnership of Loss: London Review of Books, December 13, 2007 (review by Roy Foster) One, two, or several Irelands?: The Times, December 5, 2007 (review by Diarmid Ferriter) A tribute to Ulster's A.J.P. Taylor: The Spectator, February 21, 2007 Not all stout and oysters: The Sunday Times, November 18, 2007 (review by Michael Burleigh) Buy Bew's Ireland: The Politics of Enmity 1789-2006—in US $ Or in UK£ Or in CDN$ Or in €

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Catherine McCartney's Walls of Silence Sisters five accused of intimidating IRA': Fermanagh Herald, November 28, 2007 (by Michael Breslin) What price the process?: Guardian.co.uk, November 22, 2007 (by Glenn Patterson) Sisters doing it by themselves: Belfast Telegraph, November 27, 2007 (by Gail Walker) McCartney sister's book slams Ahern for his lack of support: Sunday Independent, November 25, 2007 (by Jim Cusack) Knocking down the walls of intimidation: Sunday Tribune, November 18, 2007 (review by Carrie Twomey) I'm no tout: Sunday Life, November 4, 2007 (by Stephen Breen) SF members 'stay silent' on death of McCartney: Sunday Independent, October 28, 2007 (by Jim Cusack) Buy McCartney's Walls of Silence—in US $ Or in UK£ Or in CDN$ Or in €

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Marta Ramon's A Provisional Dictator: James Stephens and the Fenian movement A Provisional Dictator – James Stevens: Irish Democrat, November 13, 2007 (review by Michael O'Sullivan) Buy Ramon's A Provisional Dictator—in US $ Or in UK£ Or in CDN$ Or in €

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Elizabeth Keane's An Irish Statesman and Revolutionary: The Nationalist and Internationalist Politics of Sean MacBride A singular voice in Irish history: Sunday Business Post, November 18, 2007 (review by Dermot Bolger) MacBride – 'Irish Statesman and Revolutionary': Irish Democrat, November 21, 2006 (review by Roy Johnston) Buy Keane's An Irish Statesman and Revolutionary—in US $ Or in UK£ Or in CDN$ Or in €

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Christy Campbell's Fenian Fire Victoria and the big-bang theory: The Observer, May 26, 2002 (review by Roy Hattersley) A baneful tale of intrigue, treachery and deceit: Irish Democrat, October 2, 2002(review by Ruairí Ó Domhnaill) Fenian Fire – The British Government Plot to Assassinate Queen Victoria by Christy Campbell: Sunday Business Post, June 16, 2002 (review by Frank Callanan) When the prime minister plotted to kill the queen: Sunday Telegraph, May 19, 2002 (review by Andrew Roberts) Britain framed Irish hero with 'jubilee plot' to murder Victoria: The Observer, May 12, 2002 (by Kamal Ahmed) Buy Campbell's Fenian Fire—in US $ Or in UK£ Or in CDN$ Or in €

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Terry Golway's Irish Rebel: John Devoy and America's Fight for Ireland's Freedom Books in Brief – Nonfiction: New York Times, March 15, 1998 (review by David Murray) Irish Rebel—John Devoy and America's Fight for Ireland's Freedom: Wild Geese, September 3, 2002 (review by Joseph Gannon) Buy Golway's Irish Rebel—in US $ Or in UK£ Or in CDN$ Or in €

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Stephen Travers & Neil Fetherstonhaugh's The Miami Showband Massacre: A Survivor's Search for the Truth Survivor in truth search: Newry Democrat, September 19, 2007 Buy Travers & Fetherstonhaugh's The Miami Showband Massacre—in US $ Or in UK£ Or in CDN$ Or in €

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