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Terence O'Reilly's Hitler's Irishmen

  1. Hitler's Irishmen by Terence O'Reilly: Irish Voice/IrishCentral.com, February 25, 2009 (by Cahir O'Doherty)
  2. The Irish who fought for Hitler: Sunday Business Post, July 27, 2008 (review by Dermot Bolger)
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Bryan Fanning's The Quest for Modern Ireland: The Battle of Ideas 1912-1986

  1. The Quest For Modern Ireland: Irish Democrat, December 9, 2008 (review by Roy Johnston)
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Thomas Mahon & James J. Gillogly's Decoding the IRA

  1. Hawaii doc is on trail of 1920s IRA: Irish Echo, February 4, 2009 (by Peter McDermott)
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Stephanie Rains's The Irish-American in Popular Culture, 1945-2000

  1. The Irish-American in Popular Culture 1945-2000: Irish Democrat, December 9, 2008 (review by Michael O'Sullivan)
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Frank Millar's Northern Ireland: The Triumph of Politics; Interviews and Analysis 1988-2008

  1. Peerless guide to how the peace was won: Irish Independent, January 31, 2009 (review by Maurice Hayes)
  2. Now at last it can be told: (from The House Magazine, January 19, 2009, review by Lord Brooke)
  3. This isn't a triumph of politics: The News Letter, January 12, 2009 (by Alex Kane)
  4. Insider's illuminating insights into inner workings of the peace process: The Irish Times, December 16, 2008 (review by Brian Feeney)
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John Walsh's Quiet Reformer: The Official Biography of Patrick Hillery

  1. Hillery – saviour and slave of the Irish presidency: Sunday Business Post, January 25, 2009 (review by David O'Donohue)
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Ruan O'Donnell's The Impact of the 1916 Rising: Among the Nations

  1. The Impact Of The 1916 Rising: Irish Democrat, September 2, 2008 (review by Ken Keable)
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Alf McCreary's A Fund of Goodwill – the Story of the International Fund for Ireland

  1. Laboriously researched background to the International Fund for Ireland: The Irish Times, January 28, 2009 (review by Seán Donlon)
  2. The debt that we owe to generous foreign donors: Belfast Telegraph, November 17, 2008
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Thomas Hennessey's The Evolution of the Troubles 1970-72

  1. The Evolution of the Troubles: Irish Democrat, January 23, 2009 (review by Roy Johnston)
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T Ryle Dwyer's Michael Collins: The Man Who Won the War

  1. Michael Collins – The Man Who Won the War: Sunday Tribune, January 25, 2009 (review by Tom Widger)
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William Cooke Taylor's Reminiscences of Daniel O'Connell: During the Agitations of the Veto, Emancipation

  1. Reminiscences of Daniel O'Connell: Irish Democrat, September 26, 2005 (review by Gerard Curran)
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Deirdre Raftery, Susan M. Parkes's Female Education in Ireland 1700-1900: Minerva or Madonna

  1. Female Education in Ireland, 1700-1900: Irish Democrat, December 10, 2008 (review by Sally Richardson)
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Tony Crowley's Wars of Words: The Politics of Language in Ireland 1537-2004

  1. Wars of Words – the politics of language in Ireland 1537-2004: Irish Democrat, December 10, 2008 (review by Ruaírí Ó Domhnaill)
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Caitriona Crowe, Eunan O'Halpin & Dermot Keogh (Editors) Documents on Irish Foreign Policy: 1939-1941

  1. Archives shed light on the will to protect sovereignty: Sunday Independent, January 11, 2009 (review by John A Murphy)
  2. History teaches us there is hope in times of crisis: Irish Independent, December 6, 2008 (by James Downey)
  3. Reports from the diplomatic front line on a world turned upside down: The Irish Times, Decmeber 2, 2008 (review by Deirdre McMahon)
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Dermot Meleady's Redmond: The Parnellite

  1. Redmond – the Parnellite: Irish Democrat, December 15, 2008 (review by Ruaírí Ó Domhnaill)
  2. Now is the time for the honour of remembrance: Sunday Independent, May 11, 2008 (review by Charles Lysaght)
  3. Writing Redmond back into history: Sunday Business Post, May 11, 2008 (review by Steven King)
  4. Unravelling Redmond – the hero, villain and enigma: Sunday Tribune, April 20, 2008 (review by Ronan O'Brien)
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Mervyn Busteed, Frank Neal, Jonathan Tonge (Editors) Irish Protestant Identities

  1. Reshaping the dry stone wall of Irish history: OpenDemocracy.net, December 27, 2008 (review by Arthur Aughey)
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Eamonn Boyce's The Insider: The Prison Diaries of Eamonn Boyce 1956-1962

  1. Jail journal of a 'last hurrah' republican: Sunday Business Post, January 13, 2008 (review by Tim Pat Coogan)
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Barry McLoughlin's Left to the Wolves: Irish Victims of Stalinist Terror

  1. Left To The Wolves – Irish victims of Stalinist terror: Irish Democrat, April 21, 2008 (review by Fintan Lane)
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Eugene Hynes's Knock: The Virgins Apparition in Nineteenth-Century Ireland

  1. Analysis of 19th-century devotion in which all is not as it appears: The Irish Times, November 11, 2008 (review by Dáire Keogh)
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Donal Nevin (editor) Between Comrades: James Connolly's Letters and Correspondence, 1889-1916

  1. Connolly's socialist beacon burns bright: Sunday Business Post, January 13, 2008 (review by Diarmaid Ferriter)
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Richard Humphreys's Countdown to Unity: Debating Irish Reunification

  1. A curiosity or a practical roadmap to the long-sought goal of a united Ireland?: The Irish Times, December 24, 2008 (review by Deaglán de Bréadún)
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Tim Pat Coogan's A Memoir

  1. Writing himself into Irish history: The Irish Times, October 11, 2008 (review by Conor Brady)
  2. So much to argue with in Tim Pat's glorious memoir: Irish Independent, October 4, 2008 (review by Mary Kenny)
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Robert John Lynch's The Northern IRA And the Early Years of Partition 1920-1922

  1. The Northern IRA: Irish Democrat, November 13, 2007 (review by Fintan Lane)
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Joe Ambrose's Sean Treacy and the Tan War

  1. Sean Treacy And The Tan War: Irish Democrat, September 23, 2008 (review by Michael O'Sullivan)
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Miriam Moffitt's Soupers and Jumpers: The Protestant Missions in Connemara

  1. The sad leaving of Mary Mally (Malley?): Galway Advertiser, November 20, 2008
  2. An unseemly brawl over God and scripture: Galway Advertiser, November 13, 2008
  3. Evangelical Protestantism's conversion crusade and the Great Hunger: The Irish Times, December 9, 2008 (review by Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh)
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Marysia Zalewsk and John Barry (editors) Intervening in Northern Ireland: Critically Re-thinking Representations of the Conflict

  1. Intervening In Northern Ireland: Irish Democrat, August 1, 2008 (review by Roy Johnston)
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Robert Kerr's Republican Belfast: A Political Tourist's Guide

  1. Rewriting the history books – Republican 'tour guide' fails to mention a few home truths: (from the Irish Daily Star, December 8, 2008 by John Coulter)
  2. Perfect gift for anyone steeped in Belfast history: Irish News, December 11, 2008 (by Jim Gibney)
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Jonathan Moran's Policing the Peace in Northern Ireland: Politics, Crime and Security After the Belfast Agreement

  1. Probing the peace police: Irish Independent, July 26, 2008 (review by Maurice Hayes)
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Murals of Derry

  1. 'Murals of Derry' book on sale now: Derry Journal, September 3, 2008
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Yseult Thornley's Unquiet Spirit: Essays in Memory of David Thornley

  1. A rebel without a political platform: Irish Independent, November 29, 2008 (review by Paul Dillon)
  2. Divided identity on a divided island: The Irish Times, November 22, 2008 (review by Ruairi Quinn)
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Kevin Johnston's In the Shadows of Giants

  1. Sectarianism and the shipyard: The Irish Times, November 29, 2008 (by Kevin Johnson)
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Tom Feeney's Sean MacEntee: A Political Life

  1. Book fills gap in history of Free State politicians: Irish News, November 29, 2008 (review by John Heaney)
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Patsy McGarry's First Citizen: Mary McAleese and the Irish Presidency

  1. Building bridges with the UDA: Sunday Tribune, November 23, 2008 (extract)
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Sam Millar's On the Brinks

  1. On the Brinks – Sam Millar : Emigrant.ie, October 2, 2003
  2. Killer claims he buried IRA men's bodies in NY : Irish Examiner, February 19, 2004 (by John Breslin)
  3. N. Ireland Ex-Con Says He Plotted Brink's Job: Los Angeles Times, September 19, 2003
  4. A life less ordinary for this incredible survivor: Irish Independent, November 8, 2003 (review by Frank Shouldice)
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Patrick Geoghegan's King Dan: the Rise of Daniel O'Connell, 1775-1829

  1. Duels, debts and love affairs – the real Daniel O'Connell: The Observer, November 16, 2008 (by Henry McDonald)
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Peter Edwards's Delusion: The True Story of Victorian Superspy Henri Le Caron

  1. Man of Mystery: The Beaver, August – September 2008 (review by P. G. Smith)
  2. 'Strange, but true' spy story: Winnipeg Free Press, July 27, 2008 (review by Graeme Voyer)
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James G. Patterson's In the Wake of the Great Rebellion: Republicanism, Agrarianism and Banditry in Ireland after 1798

  1. Professor's book examines Irish history: Warren Reporter, September 21, 2008
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Myles Dungan's Speaking Ill of the Dead

  1. Speaking ill of the wrong subjects: Sunday Business Post, January 21, 2008 (review by Andrew Lynch)
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Seamas O'Siochain's Roger Casement: Imperialist, Rebel, Revolutionary

  1. Roger Casement versus the British Empire: The Times Literary Supplement, September 24, 2008 (review by Roy Foster)
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Tom Reilly's Cromwell: An Honourable Enemy

  1. Moral compass lost in quest for truth about Cromwell: Sunday Independent, September 21, 2008 (review by Marc Coleman)
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Brian Rowan's How the Peace Was Won

  1. Duddy key to peace progress – new book: Sunday Journal, August 24, 2008
  2. Years in search of truth in the North...: Irish Independent, September 13, 2008 (review by Maurice Hayes)
  3. Subtext every bit as interesting as subject matter: Irish News, August 21, 2008 (by Jim Gibney)
  4. How policeman and Provo talked peace: Belfast Telegraph, August 18, 2008
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Daire Keogh's Edmund Rice and the First Christian Brothers

  1. Edmund Rice – husband, father, Christian Brother: Irish Independent, September 13, 2008 (review by Brian Lynch)
  2. Portrait of a Christian crusader: Sunday Business Post, August 31, 2008 (review by Dermot Bolger)
  3. Founding fathers of a powerful brotherhood: The Irish Times, August 30, 2008 (review by Mary E Daly)
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Ken Wharton's A Long Long War: Voices from the British Army in Northern Ireland 1969-98

  1. Soldier sang to quell Maze prison riots: South Wales Echo, August 18, 2008 (by Nathan Bevan)
  2. Book published by Solihull firm recalls Ireland's troubled times: Birminham Post, August 4, 2008 (by Neil Connor)
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Brian Fleming's The Vatican Pimpernel: The Wartime Exploits of Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty

  1. How could a humble man of God outwit the Nazis?: Irish News, August 4, 2008 (by Margaret Canning)
  2. The Kerry monsignor who defied the Nazis: The Irish Times, April 5, 2008 (review by Joe Carroll)
  3. Ireland's one shining light in the Nazi gloom: Sunday Business Post, May 4, 2008 (review by Dermot Bolger)
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Elisabeth Kehoe's Ireland's Misfortune: The Turbulent Life of Kitty O'Shea

  1. Kitty O'Shea to the Irish, Katie to her friends: The Times, June 28, 2008 (review by Norma Clarke)
  2. Unwitting architect of Parnell's downfall: Sunday Business Post, June 15, 2008 (review by Maria Luddy)
  3. Biography Sex, lies and turbulence: Sunday Tribune, May 25, 2008 (review by Helen Rock)
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Deaglán de Bréadún's Far Side of Revenge: Making Peace in Northern Ireland

  1. Looking back from the far side of revenge: South Belfast News, May 31, 2008 (review by Jude Collins)
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Susan McKay's Bear in Mind These Dead

  1. Book examines human cost of the Troubles: Irish News, June 9, 2008
  2. Testimonies from the Troubles: The Observer, May 27, 2008 (by Andrew Anthony)
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Patrick Maguire's My Father's Watch

  1. When justice fails: The Guardian, June 28, 2008 (review by Ronan Bennett)
  2. Testimonies from the Troubles: The Observer, May 27, 2008 (by Andrew Anthony)
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Ed Moloney's Paisley: From Demagogue to Democrat?

  1. Converting Paisley the Irish demagogue: Eureka Street, May 27, 2008 (by Frank O'Shea)
  2. Paisley, by Ed Moloney & Great Hatred, Little Room, by Jonathan Powell: The Independent, May 2, 2008 (review by David McKittrick)
  3. Bedevilled by the detail: Sunday Independent, April 13, 2008 (review by Laura Servilan Brown)
  4. An anointed demagogue with few principles: Sunday Business Post, March 23, 2008 (review by Diarmaid Ferriter)
  5. The Paisley puzzle: Irish Independent, March 1, 2008 (review by Maurice Hayes)
  6. Paisley's remarkable journey: (from the Irish Times, February 23, 2008, extract)
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David McWilliams's The Pope's Children: The Irish Economic Triumph and the Rise of Ireland's New Elite

  1. 'Pope's Children' explains Ireland's new prosperity: Chicago Tribune, May 6, 2008 (review by Kevin Cullen)
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Charlie McGuire's Roddy Connolly and the Struggle for Socialism in Ireland

  1. Connolly's doomed striving for socialism: Sunday Business Post, April 20, 2008 (review by Andrew Lynch)
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Dermot Keogh & Andrew McCarthy's The Making of the Irish Constitution, 1937

  1. De Valera and the one true church: Irish Independent, February 2, 2008 (review by John Bruton)
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Paula Wylie's Ireland and the Cold War: Recognition and Diplomacy 1949-1963

  1. Ireland and the Cold War: Irish Democrat, February 4, 2008 (review by Joe Jamison)
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Danine Farquharson & Sean Farrell (eds) Shadows of the Gunmen: Violence and Culture in Modern Ireland

  1. How the politics of violence seep into life: Sunday Tribune, March 9, 2008 (review by Frank Hanover)
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Malachi O'Doherty's The Telling Year

  1. Review – The Telling Year: Fortnight, February 2008 (review by Mick Fealty)
  2. The Telling Year: The Blanket, August 10, 2007 (review by Pól Ó Muirí)
  3. A telling history: (from the Irish News, May 20, 2007 by AP Maginness)
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Mary Daly and Margaret O'Callaghan (eds) 1916 in 1966: Commemorating the Easter Rising

  1. '66 and one generation's inspiration: Sunday Independent, March 23, 2008 (review by Dermot Bolger)
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David Miller's Queen's Rebels: Ulster Loyalism in Historic Perspective

  1. Queen's Rebels – Ulster loyalism in historical perspective: Irish Democrat, March 7, 2008 (review by Ruaírí Ó Domhnaíll)
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Thomas Hennessey's Northern Ireland: The Origins of the Troubles

  1. The Origin of the Troubles: Irish Democrat, February 12, 2008 (review by Roy Johnston)
  2. The Origins of the Troubles: Irish Democrat, April 5, 2006 (review by Michael McCann)
  3. How the Pandora's Box of the North was opened: Irish Independent, December 3, 2005 (review by Maurice Hayes)
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Susannah U. Bruce's The Harp and the Eagle: Irish-American Volunteers and the Union Army, 1861-1865

  1. 'The Harp and the Eagle' – Earning a Foothold: TheWildGeese.com, January 21, 2008 (review by Michael Kraus)
  2. The Harp and the Eagle, A Book Review: Catholic Exchange, January 7, 2007 (review by Benet Exton)
  3. Jewish Ireland in the Age of Joyce: Irish Voice/IrishAbroad.com, December 20, 2006 (review by Cahir O'Doherty)
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Stephen Walker's Forgotten Soldiers: The Irishmen Shot at Dawn

  1. Emotional accounts of the war to end all wars: Sunday Business Post, March 2, 2008 (review by Tim Pat Coogan)
  2. 'Forgotten Soldiers' – the Irishmen shot at dawn: Fermanagh Herald, January 2, 2008
  3. Righting the wrong: (from the Irish News, December 1, 2007 by AP Maginness)
  4. British general's brutal ruling on Falls man: Irelandclick.com, November 30, 2007 (review by Ciarán Barnes)
  5. Part two – Lest they forget... the extraordinary battle to clear loved ones' names: Belfast Telegraph, October 26, 2007 (extract)
  6. The truth behind the Irish soldiers shot at dawn: Belfast Telegraph, October 25, 2007 (extract)
  7. The hell where youth and laughter go: Sunday Business Post, November 11, 2007 (extract)
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Steve Bruce's Paisley: Religion and Politics in Northern Ireland

  1. Who really brought peace to Belfast?: The Times, February 27, 20008 (review by George Brock)
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Ed Moloney's A Secret History of the IRA – 2nd Edition

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

  1. Who really brought peace to Belfast?: The Times, February 27, 20008 (review by George Brock)
  2. Sins of omission: Irish Independent, April 21, 2007 (review by Maurice Hayes)
  3. Former head of civil service says united Ireland may be better for northerners: (from the Irish News, April 6, 2007 by William Graham)
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R F Foster's Luck and the Irish: A Brief History of Change, 1970-2000

  1. Cuddling Up With the Celtic Tiger: New York Sun, February 27, 2008 (review by Adam Kirsch)
  2. Ireland's bumpy road to modernity: Daily Telegraph, January 12, 2008 (review by Leo Mckinstry)
  3. Riding the Celtic Tiger: Daily Telegraph, January 5, 2008 (review by Bernard O'Donoghue)
  4. One, two, or several Irelands?: The Times, December 5, 2007 (review by Diarmid Ferriter)
  5. A land of Botox and Mercs: The Guardian, December 1, 2007 (review by Joseph O'Connor)
  6. Not all stout and oysters: The Sunday Times, November 18, 2007 (review by Michael Burleigh)
  7. Why Irish eyes are smiling: The Independent, November 16, 2007 (review by Ivan Fallon)
  8. Luck and the Irish by R. F. Foster: The Times, November 3, 2007 (review by Roy Hattersley)
  9. Revising history makes us rub our eyes!: Derry Journal, November 6, 2007
  10. Not the place it used to be: The Spectator, October 17, 2007 (review by Paul Bew)
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Clair Willis's That Neutral Island: A Cultural History of Ireland During the Second World War

  1. Staying neutral: The Guardian, February 9, 2008 (review by Ian Pindar)
  2. The long reach of war: Boston Globe, January 13, 2008 (review by Katherine A. Powers)
  3. The effects of Ireland's WWII policy of neutrality: Washington Times, September 9, 2007 (review by Martin Rubin)
  4. The Neutral Island – A Cultural History of Ireland During the Second World War: The Sunday Times, August 19, 2007 (review by Charles Townshend)
  5. That Neutral Island, by Clair Wills: Independent on Sunday, May 13, 2007 (review by Cal McCrystal)
  6. How Ireland closed its eyes to war: Sunday Business Post, March 11, 2007 (review by Dermot Bolger)
  7. Damned if you don't: The Guardian, March 17, 2007 (review by Blake Morrison)
  8. 'A ban on feeling': The Guardian, March 10, 2007 (by Clair Wills)
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Keith Jeffery's Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson: A Political Soldier

  1. Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson: Irish Democrat, February 4, 2008 (review by Ruaírí Ó Domhnaill)
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Jim Cusack & Henry McDonald's UVF: The Endgame

  1. 'He articulated voice of the new voiceless': Sunday Life, February 3, 2008 (extract)
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Peter Duffy's The Killing of Major Denis Mahon: A Mystery of Old Ireland

  1. Bringing the Famine Back Home: Catholic Sun (Syracuse), October 25, 2007 (review by Connie Cissell)
  2. Famine's Villains: New York Times, December 9, 2007 (review by Cormac Ó Gráda)
  3. Potatoes, politics, and murder in Ireland: Boston Globe, October 2, 2007 (review by Michael Kenney)
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Tom Herron and John Lynch's After Bloody Sunday: Representation, Ethics, Justice

  1. Bloody Sunday – the truths behind a terrible event: Sunday Tribune, January 13, 2008 (review by Frank Hanover)
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Mairtin O Cathain's Irish Republicanism in Scotland, 1858-1916: Fenians in Exile

  1. Irish Republicanism in Scotland 1858-1916: Irish Democrat, January 9, 2008 (review by Stephen Coyle)
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Andrew Higgins Wyndham's Re-Imagining Ireland

  1. Ireland in a Global Age: H-Net.org, June 2007 (review by Mark Doyle)
  2. Re-Imagining Ireland: The Blanket, October 24, 2007 (review by Seaghán Ó Murchú)
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Richard Aldous's Great Irish Speeches

  1. History revealed through the words of those making it: Sunday Independent, January 6, 2008 (review by John S Doyle)
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Brendan O'Brein's The Story of Ireland

  1. Irish history made easy: Sunday Tribune, December 9, 2007 (review by Anne Flaherty)
  2. Adolescence is hard but help lies between the covers: Sunday Independent, December 9, 2007 (by Celia Keenan, scroll down)
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Peter F. Stevens's The Voyage of the Catalpa: A Perilous Journey and Six Irish Rebels' Flight to Freedom

  1. A Fenian escapade: Irish Democrat, May 22, 2003 (review by Ruairí Ó Domhnaill)
  2. The Voyage of the Catalpa: Irish American News, March 2002 (review by Frank West)Part Two (April 2002)
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Paul Bew's Ireland: The Politics of Enmity 1789-2006

  1. Partnership of Loss: London Review of Books, December 13, 2007 (review by Roy Foster)
  2. One, two, or several Irelands?: The Times, December 5, 2007 (review by Diarmid Ferriter)
  3. A tribute to Ulster's A.J.P. Taylor: The Spectator, February 21, 2007
  4. Not all stout and oysters: The Sunday Times, November 18, 2007 (review by Michael Burleigh)
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Catherine McCartney's Walls of Silence

  1. Sisters five accused of intimidating IRA': Fermanagh Herald, November 28, 2007 (by Michael Breslin)
  2. What price the process?: Guardian.co.uk, November 22, 2007 (by Glenn Patterson)
  3. Sisters doing it by themselves: Belfast Telegraph, November 27, 2007 (by Gail Walker)
  4. McCartney sister's book slams Ahern for his lack of support: Sunday Independent, November 25, 2007 (by Jim Cusack)
  5. Knocking down the walls of intimidation: Sunday Tribune, November 18, 2007 (review by Carrie Twomey)
  6. I'm no tout: Sunday Life, November 4, 2007 (by Stephen Breen)
  7. SF members 'stay silent' on death of McCartney: Sunday Independent, October 28, 2007 (by Jim Cusack)
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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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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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Helen Kelly's Irish Ingleses: The Irish Immigrant Experience in Argentina, 1840-1920

  1. Academic study sheds light on Irish emigrant experience in Argentina: The Irish Times, July 27, 2009 (review by Fergus Mulligan)
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Ian Malcolm's Towards Inclusion: Protestants and the Irish Language

  1. Do Protestants really think the Irish language is not for them?: Belfast Telegraph, July 30, 2009 (by Ian Malcolm)
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John Bew, Martyn Frampton, & Inigo Gurruchaga Talking to Terrorists: Making Peace in Northern Ireland and the Basque Country

  1. Talking to terrorists is dangerous: (from the Ulster News Letter, July 25, 2009, review by Jeff Dudgeon)
  2. Talking to terrorists – it's a messy mix of soft soap and hard power: Irish Examiner, May 27, 2009 (by Steven King)
  3. Talking to Terrorists: The Myths, Misconceptions and Misapplication of the Northern Ireland Peace Process: Jerusalem Viewpoints, August—September 2008 (by John Bew and Martyn Frampton)
  4. History of terrorism offers lessons on conflicts: Sunday Business Post, May 31, 2009 (review by Rory Miller)
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Risteard Mulcahy My Father, the General: Richard Mulchay and the Military History of the Revolution

  1. In the shadow 0f another gunman: Irish Independent, July 25, 2009 (review by John Bruton)
  2. The revolution's unsung hero: The Irish Times, July 25, 2009 (review by Michael Kennedy)
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Ruth Dudley Edwards Aftermath: The Omagh Bombing and the Families' Pursuit of Justice

  1. Aftermath, By Ruth Dudley Edwards: The Independent, July 24, 2009 (review by David McKittrick)
  2. After Omagh – the families who took on the bombers: Irish Independent, July 18, 2009 (interview with Dudley Edwards by John Spain)
  3. Face to face with evil – How the awesome courage of Omagh victims' families – and big hearts of Mail readers – led to victory: Daily Mail, June 17, 2009 (extract)
  4. Shameless betrayal – How Omagh victims were left to confront bombers themselves after Blair failed to deliver justice: Daily Mail, June 16, 2009 (extract)
  5. The Omagh bombing – I never realised how beautiful my son's eyes were until I saw his broken little body: Daily Mail, June 15, 2009 (extract)
  6. Day a car bomb brought carnage to a small town – The first extract from a new book about the Omagh tragedy: Daily Mail, June 13, 2009 (extract)
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John Pickering Drumcree

  1. Thousands throng to: The News Letter, May 18, 2009 (extract)
  2. Reverend unveils Drumcree book: The News Letter, May 15, 2009
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John O'Connell God is a Woman and the Future's Female!: Why Our Lady is Really God, and Mark Durkan Knows it, the Unionists Deny it, But Gerry Adams Just Doesn't Get it at All!

  1. Messing with the mystic in Ireland today: Tribune Magazine (UK), December 3, 2008 (review by John Coulter)
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Marnie Hay Bulmer Hobson and the Nationalist Movement in Twentieth-Century Ireland

  1. Sidelined republican who lived for 50 years in rage and obscurity: The Irish Times, June 24, 2009 (review by Jeffrey Dudgeon)
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Richard Moore Can I Give Him My Eyes?

  1. I met the soldier who blinded me — but he never apologised: Irish Independent, July 8, 2009 (by Sue Leonard)
  2. Heroic tale of a child caught in crossfire who had the vision to forgive: The Irish Times, May 19, 2009 (review by Gemma Hussey)
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Cal McCarthy Green, Blue & Grey: The Irish in the American Civil War

  1. America's fighting Irish: Irish Examiner, July 6, 2009 (review by Peter Levy)
  2. The fightin' Irish who saw action on both sides of the American Civil War: The Irish Times, June 29, 2009 (review by Frank McNally)
  3. New book features the US military exploits of Sligo's Michael Corcoran: Sligo Champion, May 27, 2009
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Micheal O Siochru's God's Executioner: Oliver Cromwell and the Conquest of Ireland

  1. God's Executioner: Irish Democrat, April 29, 2009 (review by Michael O'Sullivan)
  2. God's Executioner – Oliver Cromwell and the Conquest of Ireland: Sunday Tribune, May 24, 2009 (review by Tom Widger)
  3. Ahern says he did not leave Cook's office over Cromwell: The Irish Times, October 10, 2008 (by Pamela Newenham)
  4. Was Cromwell really the devil incarnate?: Irish Independent, September 20, 2008 (review by Maurice Hayes)
  5. God's Executioner: Oliver Cromwell and the Conquest of Ireland by Micheal O Siochru: The Sunday Times, August 17, 2008 (by John Carey)
  6. Brute force: The Guardian, September 20, 2008 (review by Ronan Bennett)
  7. Definitive word on Ireland's tormentor: Sunday Business Post, September 14, 2008 (review by Andrew Lynch)
  8. Review – God's Executioner by Micheál Ó Siochrú: Daily Telegraph, September 6, 2008 (review by Marcus Nevitt)
  9. Why Cromwell's chequered life is well worth a read: Belfast Telegraph, September 8, 2008 (by Pól Ó Muirí)
  10. Hidden History – Cromwell in Ireland: Irish Independent, September 6, 2008 (review by Paul Whitington)
  11. The Big Question – Was Cromwell a revolutionary hero or a genocidal war criminal?: The Independent, September 4, 2008
  12. Massacres at Drogheda and Wexford were 'war crimes': Sunday Independent, August 31, 2008
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