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Timothy Knatchbull's From a Clear Blue Sky
Out now in paperback: Daily Mail, August 13, 2010 (review by Harry Ritchie)
From the clear blue sky comes a compelling account of survival: Irish Independent, August 9, 2010 (by Maurice Hayes)
From a Clear Blue Sky: Surviving the Mountbatten Bomb: Sunday Tribune, March 7, 2010 (review by Tom Widger)
From a Clear Blue Sky: Surviving the Mountbatten Bomb by Timothy Knatchbull – review: Daily Telegraph, October 13, 2009 (review by Philip Johnston)
Hon Timothy Knatchbull – 'wrong' twin finds peace: The Sunday Times, August 23, 2009 (by Lesley White)
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Brian Hanley & Scott Millar's The Lost Revolution: The Story of the Official IRA and the Workers' Party
A painful truth: (from Fortnight Magazine, July/August 2010, review by Kevin Smyth)
The Lost Revolution – The story of the Official IRA and the Workers' Party, Brian Hanley and Scott Millar: The Irish Catholic, January 7, 2010 (review by Joe Carroll)
Official IRA identified 'corporals' crowd for Brit spooks: Belfast Media, November 19, 2009
New book charts rise of the Official IRA in Derry: Derry Journal, November 20, 2009
Lost chance to write the Workers' Party history: Sunday Independent, November 8, 2009 (review by John-Paul McCarthy)
Peeling back the truth about the stickies: Irish Independent, October 10, 2009 (review by Maurice Hayes)
The story of the revolutionaries working inside RTE: The Sunday Times, August 30, 2009 (extract)
The Lost Revolution The Story of the Official IRA and the Workers' Party: Sunday Business Post, October 4, 2009 (review by Andrew Lynch)
Taking the gun out of Irish politics: The Irish Times, September 19, 2009 (review by Deaglán de Bréadún)
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Gerry Bradley & Brian Feeney's Insider: Life in the IRA
Lurking misgivings: (from Fortnight Magazine, July/August 2010, review by Anthony McIntyre)
The shadow of a gunman: Irish Independent, November 21, 2009 (review by Maurice Hayes)
This is just my story ex-IRA man says amid memoir row: Irish News, October 2, 2009
I'm no Denis Donaldson, IRA book writer tells republicans: Irish News, October 2, 2009 (by Diana Rusk)
We were selected to shoot Brian Faulkner – IRA man: Irish News, September 25, 2009
Ringland's life risked to thwart IRA killers: Irish News, September 26, 2009 (by Diana Rusk)
Plan to kill high-profile officer ended in arrest: Irish News, September 26, 2009 (by Diana Rusk)
RUC dad's agonising dilemma – Put son or operation at risk?: Irish News, September 26, 2009 (by Diana Rusk)
Message in book for all dissidents: Irish News, September 26, 2009 (Editorial)
Insider was ready to assassinate Brian Faulkner: Belfast Media, September 25, 2009 (by Alana Fearon)
Plan to assassinate Faulkner 'would have changed history': Irish News, September 25, 2009 (by Diana Rusk)
Newsagent shot dead in 1994 'was IRA adjutant': Irish News, September 25, 2009 (by Diana Rusk)
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Niall O'Dowd's An Irish Voice
Niall O'Dowd – an Irish voice: Galway Advertiser, June 30, 2010 (review by Kevin McGuire)
Power of the spoken word: Irish Post, May 5, 2010
Emigrant who found his voice and spoke for others: Sunday Business Post, April 11, 2010 (review by Dermot Bolger<)
Niall O'Dowd – "The Voice of Irish America": HuffingtonPost.com, March 15, 2010 (by Rory Fitzgerald)
An Irish Voice By Niall O'Dowd (Mar 14): Sunday Tribune, March 14, 2010 (by Tom Widger)
A stranger in both cultures: The Irish Times, March 6, 2010 (review by Anthony Glavin)
Speech by An Taoiseach, Mr Brian Cowen TD, At the launch of An Irish Voice – Mr Niall O'Dowd's Autobiography, The Merrion Hotel, Dublin, Tuesday, 2nd March 2010: Taoiseach.gov.ie
Diaspora role in peace process lauded: The Irish Times, March 3, 2010 (by Deaglán de Bréadún)
From house painter to power-broker: Irish Independent, February 27, 2010 (review by Tim Pat Coogan)
Clinton nearly gave up on North over IRA bomb: Irish Independent, February 23, 2010 (by John Spain)
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Steve McDonogh's Barack Obama: The Road from Moneygall
Obama is literally a black Protestant: Sunday Independent, June 27, 2010 (review by Eoghan Harris)
Obama's tangled Irish roots: Sunday Business Post, June 13, 2010 (review by Andrew Lynch)
Kerry author has tales of Obama: The Kingdom, June 10, 2010 (by Brendan McCarthy)
Obama ancestors left Ireland after wig trade collapsed: Irish Voice/IrishCentral.com, May 30, 2010 (by Patrick Cooper)
There's no one as Irish as Barack O'Bama: The Irish Times, May 29, 2010 (review by Patrick M Geoghegan)
The long road from Moneygall: Irish Independent, May 29, 2010 (review by John Spain)
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Dave Hannigan's De Valera in America
De Valera in America by Dave Hannigan: PopMatters.com, June 9, 2010 (review by John L. Murphy)
Capturing the drama and controversy of de Valera's 1919 visit to the US: The Irish Times, November 25, 2008 (review by Anne Dolan)
De Valera in America: Sunday Tribune, November 9, 2008
Dev feared US trip bad for image in Ireland: Irish News, October 29, 2008 (by Margaret Canning)
The day the chief earned his feathers: Sunday Tribune, October 19, 2008 (extract)
The Long Fellow goes to Hollywood: Sunday Tribune, October 19, 2008 (extract)
De Valera's American Adventure: Sunday Tribune, October 19, 2008 (extract)
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Frances Stonor Saunders' The Woman Who Shot Mussolini
The Woman Who Shot Mussolini: Financial Times, April 5, 2010 (review by Tony Barber)
The deb who shot Mussolini: How aristocrat's daughter came close to killing Il Duce: Daily Mail, April 1, 2010 (review by Annabel Venning)
The Woman Who Shot Mussolini by Frances Stonor Saunders: The Observer, March 28, 2010 (review by Ian Thomson)
Book review – The Woman Who Shot Mussolini: The Scotsman, March 22, 2010 (review by Lee Randall)
The Woman Who Shot Mussolini, By Frances Stonor Saunders: The Independent, March 12, 2010 (review by Peter Popham)
The Woman Who Shot Mussolini by Frances Stonor Saunders: The Sunday Times, February 28, 2010 (review by John Carey)
The Woman Who Shot Mussolini by Frances Stonor Saunders – review: Daily Telegraph, February 26, 2010 (review by Freya Johnston)
The high price of a pot shot: The Irish Times, February 20, 2010 (review by John McCourt)
The forgotten shot at Mussolini: Minneapolis Star Tribune, March 27, 2010 (review by Michael J. Bonafield)
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Ed Moloney's Voices from the Grave – Two Men's War in Ireland
Voices From The Grave is a brave and important book: Metro.co.uk, April 20, 2010
Voices from the Grave — Two Men's War in Ireland by Ed Moloney – review: Daily Telegraph, April 17, 2010 (review by Dominic Sandbrook)
Gun runners and the QE2: Clydebank Post, April 15, 2010 (review by Julie Gilbert)
Voices From The Grave: Two Men's War In Ireland – Ed Moloney: Daily Express, April 9, 2010 (review by Christopher Silvester)
Why Gerry Adams is still haunted by IRA ghosts: Sunday Business Post, April 18, 2010 (review by Richard Curran)
Voices from the Grave – Two Men's War in Ireland by Ed Moloney: The Sunday Times, April 11, 2010 (review by Stephen Robinson)
Doherty 'not trusted' by IRA members: Derry Journal, April 9, 2010
Dungiven hunger striker recalled in Hughes memoir: Londonderry Sentinel, April 8, 2010 (by Kevin Mullan)
'Our own leaders let us down': The Sunday Times (extract)
Tale from two sides of the divide: The Irish Times, April 3, 2010 (review by Richard English)
IRA operator sold papers in Londonderry: Londonderry Sentinel, April 1, 2010
Charges from The Dark that cast a long shadow: Belfast Telegraph, March 29, 2010(by Malachi O'Doherty)
Author defends Adams IRA claims: Independent.ie, March 29, 2010
Scepticism over Ed Maloney book in Gerry Adams' political heartland: Belfast Telegraph, March 29, 2010
Adams accused of ordering murders: The Independent, March 29, 2010 (by David McKittrick)
Jean family fury as book claims Adams ordered her murder: Irish Independent, March 29, 2010 (by John Spain)
Daughter of McConville to sue Adams over murder: The Irish Times, March 29, 2010 (by Gerry Moriarty)
Gerry Adams and me: The Sunday Times, March 28, 2010 (extract)
Gerry Adams 'had Jean McConville disappeared': The Sunday Times, March 28, 2010 (by John Burns)
IRA used QE2 to smuggle weapons from New York: The Sunday Times, March 28, 2010 (by John Burns)
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Clair Wills's Dublin 1916: The Siege of the GPO
Dublin 1916 – The Siege of the GPO by Clair Wills: Sunday Tribune, May 9, 2010 (review by Tom Widger)
Dissecting a symbol of 1916: Sunday Business Post, April 26, 2009 (review by Gerald Dawe)
Dublin 1916 – The Siege Of The GPO: Sunday Tribune, April 26, 2009 (review by Trevor Royle)
Extract from Dublin 1916: The Siege of the GPO: The Irish Times, April 4, 2009
Easter 1916 – myths, lies and newsreels: Irish Independent, April 11, 2009 (review by Maurice Hayes)
1916 and all that: The Guardian, April 11, 2009 (review by Roy Foster)
The GPO and the Rising revisited: The Irish Times, April 4, 2009 (review by Mary E Daly)
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David Gordon's The Fall of the House of Paisley
The Fall of the House of Paisley: Sunday Tribune, April 25, 2010 (review by Tom Widger)
Detailed account of how Ian Paisley's political dynasty came crashing down: The Irish Times, December 28, 2009 (review by Dan Keenan)
This peace process has really turned into a bit of a love-in. Lady Paisley hasn't a bad word to say about Martin McGuinness: Irish Independent, December 5, 2009 (by Mary Kenny)
Book gives behind the scenes story of devolution's first year: Ulster Star, November 13, 2009
The fall of the house of Paisley: Guardian.co.uk, November 12, 2009 (by Henry McDonald)
Big Ian, little Ian and a sober ending: Irish Independent, November 7, 2009
Did this picture really end Ian Paisley's reign?: Belfast Telegraph, November 7, 2009 (by David Gordon)
DUP's secret plot to oust Ian Paisley: Belfast Telegraph, November 7, 2009 (by David Gordon)
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James McGuire & James Quinn (Editors) Dictionary of Irish Biography 9 Volume Set: From the Earliest Times to the Year 2002
James Quinn's Irish dictionary highlights history's Celtic quacks: Toronto Globe and Mail, April 11, 2010 (by Sarah Hampson)
The ABC of the Irish: The Irish Times, February 27, 2010 (review by Catriona Crowe)
Epic achievement lays milestone for Irish scholarship: Sunday Independent, February 14, 2010 (review by Charles Lysaght)
Award for reference book on Irish people: The Irish Times, February 6, 2010
Who was who in Ireland?: The Times Literary Supplement, February 3, 2010 (review by Roy Foster)
Glorious compendium of famous Irish lives: Sunday Business Post, January 17, 2010 (review by Andrew Lynch)
Lives of our days: Sunday Tribune, December 20, 2009 (by Gerard Siggins)
Typhoid Mary and other curiosities in Irish biography: BBC, December 18, 2009
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Daniel Cassidy's How the Irish Invented Slang: The Secret Language of the Crossroads
Dirty Irish Gaelic words litter New York City slang: Irish Voice/IrishCentral.com, March 24, 2010 (by Brendan Patrick Keane)
An Irishman's Diary – How the Irish Invented Slang: The Irish Times, March 13, 2009 (by Frank McNally)
Death of Danny Cassidy: Irish Echo, October 15, 2008 (by Peter Quinn)
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)
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Edward M. Kennedy's True Compass: A Memoir
True Compass: A Memoir – by Edward M Kennedy: The Irish Catholic, January 14, 2010 (review by Joe Carroll)
True Compass by Edward Kennedy: The Guardian, October 10, 2009 (review by Martin Kettle)
The last of the Kennedy boys: The Irish Times, October 3, 2009 (review by Ruairi Quinn)
Something to prove: Boston Globe, September 13, 2009 (by Matthew V. Storin)
True Compass – A Memoir by Edward M Kennedy: The Sunday Times, September 20, 2009 (review by Stephen Robinson)
Teddy... Unsanitized: Irish Examiner USA, September 22, 2009 (review by Patrick Hurley)
Like the man, this memoir is fine but flawed: Sunday Business Post, September 27, 2009 (review by Andrew Lynch)
Time and again, Kennedy's compass pointed to Ireland: Irish Echo, September 23, 2009 (by Susan Garraty)
True Compass – A Memoir by Edward M Kennedy: The Observer, September 20, 2009 (review by Robert McCrum)
The tragic makings of a liberal lion: Financial Times, September 21, 2009 (review by Edward Luce)
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Michael Lillis & Ronan Fanning's The Lives of Eliza Lynch: Scandal and Courage
This Eliza did a lot: Irish Independent, September 12, 2009 (review by Mary Shine Thompson)
The Lives of Eliza Lynch – Scandal and Courage: Sunday Tribune, November 15, 2009 (review by John Foley)
Rattling good tale of Paraguay Panchito and Eliza Do-a-lot: Tribune (review by Hugh O'Shaughnessy)
Nations again at odds over Irish mistress: Sunday Independent, December 6, 2009 (by Emily Hourican)
'Villain' of Brazil-Paraguay war was misunderstood hero, says new book: Guardian.co.uk, November 8, 2009 (review by Rory Carroll)
Book casts new light on Cork woman living in turbulent times in Paraguay: The Irish Times, November 7, 2009 (by Tom Hennigan)
Cork's queen of Paraguay: The Irish Times, October 3, 2009 (review by Sinéad McCoole)
Eliza Lynch – The heroine of Paraguay: Sunday Independent, October 4, 2009 (review by Emily Hourican)
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Mary Kenny's Crown and Shamrock: Love and Hate Between Ireland and the British Monarchy
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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Albert Reynolds' My Autobiography
A deft dealmaker in the pursuit of peace: Sunday Business Post, October 18, 2009 (review by Tim Pat Coogan)
Country owes Reynolds a great debt, says Taoiseach: Irish Examiner, September 25, 2009 (by Paul O'Brien)
Memoir – Albert Reynolds: My Autobiography: Sunday Tribune, October 11, 2009 (review by Shane Coleman)
Hometown hurrah as family toasts Albert's own story: Irish Independent, September 22, 2009 (by Denise Clarke)
One-sheet Albert writes 320 pages: Irish Independent, September 26, 2009 (review by James Downey)
Taoiseach praises Reynolds for going 'extra mile' in his quest for peace: The Irish Times, September 25, 2009 (by Deaglán de Bréadún)
How Reynolds nearly came to blows with FBI: Evening Herald, September 18, 2009
A single-minded peacemonger: The Irish Times, September 12, 2009 (by Stephen Collins)
Taoiseach who went from top of the world to rock bottom in one week: Irish Examiner, September 12, 2009 (by Ryle Dwyer)
Cloak and dagger talks and a knife in the back: Sunday Independent, September 6, 2009 (extract)
Courting controversy and conflict amid the celebrations The THIRD Secret of Fatima: Sunday Independent, August 30, 2009 (extract)
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Tom Garvin's Judging Lemass
Sean Lemass – Ireland's saviour had a ruthless streak: Sunday Independent, November 22, 2009 (review by Charles Lysaght)
A Leviathan whose changes shaped us: Sunday Independent, November 1, 2009 (review by John-Paul McCarthy)
Politics – Judging Lemass: Sunday Tribune, November 8, 2009 (review by Diarmaid Ferriter)
Pipe-smoking patriot who had no time for Dev's pipe dreams: Sunday Business Post, October 25, 2009 (review by Andrew Lynch)
Like me, Lemass was a practical socialist: Irish Independent, October 24, 2009 (review by Bertie Ahern)
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