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Marta Ramon's A Provisional Dictator: James Stephens and the Fenian movement

  1. A Provisional Dictator – James Stevens: Irish Democrat, November 13, 2007 (review by Michael O'Sullivan)
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Elizabeth Keane's An Irish Statesman and Revolutionary: The Nationalist and Internationalist Politics of Sean MacBride

  1. A singular voice in Irish history: Sunday Business Post, November 18, 2007 (review by Dermot Bolger)
  2. MacBride – 'Irish Statesman and Revolutionary': Irish Democrat, November 21, 2006 (review by Roy Johnston)
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Christy Campbell's Fenian Fire

  1. Victoria and the big-bang theory: The Observer, May 26, 2002 (review by Roy Hattersley)
  2. A baneful tale of intrigue, treachery and deceit: Irish Democrat, October 2, 2002(review by Ruairí Ó Domhnaill)
  3. Fenian Fire – The British Government Plot to Assassinate Queen Victoria by Christy Campbell: Sunday Business Post, June 16, 2002 (review by Frank Callanan)
  4. When the prime minister plotted to kill the queen: Sunday Telegraph, May 19, 2002 (review by Andrew Roberts)
  5. Britain framed Irish hero with 'jubilee plot' to murder Victoria: The Observer, May 12, 2002 (by Kamal Ahmed)
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Terry Golway's Irish Rebel: John Devoy and America's Fight for Ireland's Freedom

  1. Books in Brief – Nonfiction: New York Times, March 15, 1998 (review by David Murray)
  2. Irish Rebel—John Devoy and America's Fight for Ireland's Freedom: Wild Geese, September 3, 2002 (review by Joseph Gannon)
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Stephen Travers & Neil Fetherstonhaugh's The Miami Showband Massacre: A Survivor's Search for the Truth

  1. Survivor in truth search: Newry Democrat, September 19, 2007
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Niamh O'Sullivan's Every Dark Hour: A History of Kilmainham Jail

  1. Jailhouse tales: Village, June 14, 2007 (review by Patrick Geoghegan)
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Jason K. Knirck's Women of the Dail: Gender, Republicanism and the Anglo-irish Treaty

  1. Women of the Dáil: Irish Democrat, April 25, 2007 (review by Peter Berresford Ellis)
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John Borgonovo (editor) Florence And Josephine O'donoghue's War of Independence: A Destiny That Shapes Our Ends

  1. The O'Donoghues' War of Independence: Irish Democrat, July 3, 2006 (review by Peter Berresford Ellis)
  2. Secrets, lies, love and Civil War: Irish Echo, July 6, 2007 (review by Peter McDermott)
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Eoin Flannery & Angus Mitchell (Editors) Enemies of Empire: New Perspectives on Imperialism, Literature and History

  1. Enemies Of Empire: Irish Democrat, July 26, 2007 (review by Michael O'Sullivan)
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Gerry Adams's An Irish Eye

  1. Why Martin and Ian's honeymoon is going well ...: Belfast Telegraph, September 18, 2007 (by Laurence White)
  2. Intelligent pieces fail to engage: Sunday Business Post, September 2, 2007 (review by Robert Clougher)
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Annie Ryan's Comrades: Inside the War of Independence

  1. Irish history is still the wind to shake our barley: Irish Independent, July 14, 2007 (review by John Spain)
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Eric P. Kaufmann's The Orange Order: A Contemporary Northern Irish History

  1. The past burns bright: Irish Independent, July 14, 2007 (review by Maurice Hayes)
  2. Orange Order must adhere to Christian ethos: (from the Irish Times, July 17, 2007 by Brian Kennaway)
  3. Unlocking the closed doors of the Orangeism: The News Letter, June 5, 2007 (review by Brian Kennaway)
  4. Orangeism's role in the new Ulster: The News Letter, May 28, 2007 (extract)
  5. Paisley in call for loyalists to unite: The News Letter, May 25, 2007 (extract)
  6. The Orange Order prepares for war: The News Letter, May 25, 2007 (extract)
  7. An Orange history from inside: The News Letter, May 21, 2007 (by Eric P. Kaufmann)
  8. Parades Commission divides the Order: The News Letter, May 23, 2007 (extract)
  9. The Orange Order in Bandit Country: The News Letter, May 22, 2007 (extract)
  10. Blair, the Order and Drumcree: The News Letter, May 22, 2007 (extract)
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Mervyn Jess's The Orange Order

  1. The past burns bright: Irish Independent, July 14, 2007 (review by Maurice Hayes)
  2. Orange Order must adhere to Christian ethos: (from the Irish Times, July 17, 2007 by Brian Kennaway)
  3. Orange Order Wants No Help: Irish Voice/IrishAbroad.com, July 13, 2007 (by Paddy Clancy)
  4. Drumcree 'dance' that spawned a monster: Belfast Telegraph, May 21, 2007 (extract)
  5. Sinn Féin, the Orange Order and the march of time: Belfast Telegraph, May 22, 2007 (extract)
  6. So, what really happens behind lodge doors ...: Belfast Telegraph, May 22, 2007 (extract)
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John Waller's Irish Flames: Peter Waller's true story of the arrival of the Black and Tans

  1. Irish Flames: Irish Democrat, April 25, 2007 (review by Peter Berresford Ellis)
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Danny Morrison (editor) Hunger Strike: Reflections on the 1981 Republican Hunger Strike

  1. Hunger Strike, reflections: Irish Democrat, May 19, 2007 (review by David Granville)
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Thomas Kettle's The Orange Order: A Contemporary Northern Irish History

  1. The Open Secret of Ireland: Irish Democrat, April 25, 2007 (review by Ian Mc Keane)
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Shulami Eliash's The Harp and the Shield of David

  1. Ireland meets the new Jewish state: Sunday Business Post, May 27, 2007 (review by Rory Miller)
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Ivan F. Nelson's The Irish Militia, 1793-1802: Ireland's Forgotten Army

  1. Catholic Irishmen who fought the 1798 rebels: Sunday Business Post, June 3, 2007 (review by Tom Bartlett)
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Roy Johnston's Century of Endeavour: A Biographical and Autobiographical View of the Twentieth Century in Ireland

  1. Writer brings republicanism back to its roots: (from the Irish News, May 28, 2007 by Roy Garland)
  2. Century of Endeavour: Fortnight, January 2007 (review by Richard English)
  3. Joe & Roy Johnston – 'Water Running Uphill'?: The Blanket, December 14, 2006 (review by Seaghán Ó Murchú)
  4. A "Must Read" For Those With a Serious Interest: The Blanket, January 9, 2007 (review by Liam O Ruairc)
  5. Century of Endeavour: Irish Democrat, September 12, 2006 (review by Ruán O'Donnell)
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Rogelio Alonso's The IRA and Armed Struggle

  1. The IRA and Armed Struggle: Irish Democrat, April 25, 2007 (review by Sean Carey)
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Sean Moylan's Sean Moylan, in His Own Words: His Memoir of the Irish War of Independence, with a Selection of Speeches and Poems

  1. Sean Moylan – soldier, politician and independent spirit: Irish Democrat, September 16, 2005 (review by Micheál O'Riordan)
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Emmet O'Connor's Reds And The Green: Ireland, Russia, and the Communist Internationals, 1919-43

  1. Ireland, Russia and the Communist Internationals: Irish Democrat, June 16, 2005 (review by Ian McKeane)

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Shane Hegarty's The Irish Times Book of The 1916 Rising

  1. Irish Times Book of the 1916 Rising: Irish Democrat, March 13, 2007 (review by Declan O'Brien)
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Niall O'Dochartaigh's From Civil Rights to Armalites: Derry and the Birth of the Irish Troubles

  1. From Civil Rights to Armalites: (from Irelandclick.com, March 31, 2005, review by Martin Morgan)
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Terence Dooley's The Land For The People: The Land Question In Independent Ireland

  1. The Land for the People: Irish Democrat, February 8, 2005 (review by Roy Johnston)
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Don Akenson's An Irish History of Civilization: Volume 1

  1. Postcards from the past . . .: Irish Independent, September 24, 2005 (review by John Bruton)
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Meda Ryan's Michael Collins and the Women Who Spied for Ireland

  1. Michael Collins and the Women Who Spied for Ireland: Irish Democrat, November 21, 2006 (review by Peter Berresford Ellis)
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Senan Moloney's The Phoenix Park Murders: Murder, Betrayal and Retribution

  1. The Phoenix Park Murders: Irish Democrat, November 21, 2006 (review by Peter Berresford Ellis)
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Joe Ambrose's Dan Breen and the IRA

  1. Dan Breen and the IRA: Irish Democrat, January 29, 2007 (review by Peter Berresford Ellis)
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Richard English's Irish Freedom: A History of Nationalism in Ireland

  1. Irish Freedom: Irish Democrat, March 13, 2007 (review by David Granville)
  2. A History of Nationalism in Ireland: The Blanket (review by Liam O Ruairc)
  3. Book on nationalism wins Ewart-Biggs award: Irish Independent, February 22, 2007 (by John Spain)
  4. How the IRA doomed itself to bloody futility: The Observer, February 18, 2007 (review by Henry McDonald)
  5. A nation once again: but what does it mean?: Irish Independent, January 13, 2007 (review by John Bruton)
  6. Identity crisis: New Statesman, January 29, 2007 (review by Tom Paulin)
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Fionbarra O'Dochartaigh's Ulster's White Negroes: From Civil Rights to Insurrection

  1. England's Legacy to Ireland – State Sponsored Terrorism: The Blanket, January 11, 2007 (review by Richard Wallace)
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Denis O'Hearn's Nothing but an Unfinished Song

  1. Nothing But An Unfinished Song: Irish Democrat, November 21, 2006 (review by Michael O'Sullivan)
  2. Human rights icon profiled: Charleston Post and Courier, April 9, 2006 (review by Jackie Tremblay)
  3. Bobby Sands – an international icon: Irish Democrat, April 6, 2006
  4. Legacy of Cage Eleven: (from Irelandclick.com, March 6, 2006, extract)
  5. Bobby Sands – Boyhood Rathcoole days recalled: (from Irelandclick.com, March 2, 2006, extract)
  6. Prisoners' resolve is strengthened in the face of increasing adversity: Daily Ireland, March 3, 2006 (extract)
  7. Pursuing and winning freedom through books at bedtime: Daily Ireland, March 2, 2006 (extract)
  8. 'There's only one solution… back on hunger strike': Daily Ireland, March 1, 2006 (extract)
  9. Becoming politically radical in Cages of Long Kesh: Daily Ireland, February 28, 2006 (extract)
  10. The IRA's Empty Victory: Washington Post, February 28, 2006 (review by Ed Moloney)
  11. Childhood before sectarian state got vicious: Daily Ireland, February 27, 2006 (extract)
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J. J. Lee & Marion Casey (Editors) Making the Irish American: History and Heritage of the Irish in the United States

  1. 'Making the Irish American' a Welcome – And Needed – Reflection: TheWildGeese.com, March 20, 2007 (review by Patricia Jameson-Sammartano)
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Peter Martin's Censorship in the Two Irelands 1922-1939

  1. Censorship in the two Irelands: Irish Democrat, March 13, 2007 (review by Peter Berresford Ellis)
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Tadhg Foley & Maureen O'Connor (Editors) Ireland And India: Colonies, Culture And Empire

  1. Ireland and India: Irish Democrat, February 27, 2007 (review by Avtar Sadiq)
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John Borgonovo's Spies, Informers And the 'Anti-Sinn Fein Society': The Intelligence War in Cork City, 1920-1921

  1. Spies, Informers and the 'Anti-Sinn Fein Society': Irish Democrat, January 29, 2007 (review by Peter Berresford Ellis)
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Fintan O'Toole's White Savage: William Johnson and the Invention of America

  1. White Savage – William Johnson and the Invention of America: Irish America/IrishAbroad.com, December '05/January '06
  2. Frontier finesse: Houston Chronicle, November 18, 2005 (review by Steven E. Alford)
  3. Dancer with the Mohawks: Scotland on Sunday, August 21, 2005 (review by Alex Massie)
  4. 'White Savage' – Going Native: New York Times, October 16, 2005 (review by Caleb Crain)
  5. A walk on the wild side: Daily Telegraph, August 28, 2005 (review by Joanna Kavenna)
  6. Going Native: Washington Post, February 7, 2006 (review by Matthew Price)
  7. Don Giovanni goes to the New World: Independent on Sunday, January 1, 2006 (review by Frank McLynn)
  8. History – White Savage by Fintan O'Toole: The Sunday Times, August 28, 2005 (review by Stella Tillyard)
  9. In the valley of the Mohawk: The Guardian, August 27, 2005 (review by Michael Moorcock)
  10. White Savage – William Johnson and the invention of America by Fintan O'Toole: The Independent, August 19, 2005 (review by Stephen Howe)
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Desmond Norton's Landlords, Tenants, Famine: the business of an Irish agency in the 1840

  1. Landlords, Tenants, Famine: Irish Democrat, February 13, 2007 (review by Michael O'Sullivan)
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Gary Mcgladdery's The Provisional IRA in England: The Bombing Campaign 1973-1997

  1. No Clean Hands: The Blanket, November 2006 (review by Anthony McIntyre)
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Derek Lundy's A Bloody Red Hand

  1. Men That God Made Mad, by Derek Lundy: The Independent, February 9, 2007 (review by Christopher Hirst)
  2. Home rules: The Guardian, February 10, 2007 (review by Judith Rice)
  3. Uncovering the unionist bogeyman: Sunday Business Post, March 5, 2006 (review by Paul T Colgan)
  4. Loyalists and Lundy men: Irish Independent, March 4, 2006 (review by Maurice Hayes)
  5. Madmen, traitors, heroes and bigots: The Times, February 11, 2006 (review by John Burnside)
  6. A peephole on the Irish conflict: Sunday Telegraph, February 12, 2006 (review by Jenny McCartney)
  7. Writing home: (from the Irish News, February 18, 2006, review by AP Maginness)
  8. 'The sore that will not heal': Toronto Globe and Mail, February 18, 2006 (review by Mark Anthony Jarman)
  9. Who betrayed the Lundys?: The Guardian, February 11, 2006 (review by Roy Foster)
  10. Men That God Made Mad by Derek Lundy: Independent on Sunday, February 12, 2006 (review by Cal McCrystal)
  11. The Bloody Red Hand: Toronto Globe and Mail, February 18, 2006
(Note: known as Men That God Made Mad in Europe)
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Peter Quinn's Looking for Jimmy: A Search for Irish America

  1. How the Irish claimed their place in the New World: Washington Post, February 25, 2007 (review by Jonathan Yardley)
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Cormac O'Grada's Jewish Ireland in the Age of Joyce: A Socioeconomic History

  1. Bloom and Dublin's Jews: Irish Independent, February 17, 2007 (review by Brian Lynch)
  2. Jewish Ireland in the Age of Joyce: Irish Voice/IrishAbroad.com, December 20, 2006 (review by Cahir O'Doherty – scroll down)
  3. Why the Jews came to Ireland, and left: Sunday Business Post, February 18, 2007 (review by Emmanuel Kehoe)
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Peter Hart's Mick: The Real Michael Collins

  1. Mick – The Real Michael Collins: Foreign Affairs, May/June 2006 (review by Stanley Hoffmann)
  2. The real Michael Collins: Newfoundland & Labrador Independent, February 26, 2006 (by Stephanie Porter)
  3. A controversial new biography of Michael Collins: Literary Review (review by Mary Kenny)
  4. A parade of glory and grievance: Daily Telegraph, November 20, 2005 (review by Leo Mckinstry)
  5. Who was the real Michael Collins: The New Republic, March 13, 2006 (review by Fintan O'Toole)
  6. The Real Michael Collins: Waterford Today
  7. Irish independence warrior Collins loses some lustre in new biography: Winnipeg Free Press, February 19, 2006 (review by Tom Oleson)
  8. 'The Big Fella' go bragh!: Toronto Globe and Mail, February 18, 2006 (review by Joe Brady)
  9. The Big Fellow: New York Times, March 5, 2006 (review by Denis Donoghue)
  10. Born of chaos: Boston Globe, February 26, 2006 (review by Anna Mundow)
  11. Collins as accidental hero: (from the Irish News, October 22, 2005, review by AP Maginness)
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Diarmaid Ferriter's The Transformation of Ireland