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Ed Moloney's Paisley: From Demagogue to Democrat?
Converting Paisley the Irish demagogue: Eureka Street, May 27, 2008 (by Frank O'Shea)
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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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Eric P. Kaufmann's The Orange Order: A Contemporary Northern Irish History
The past burns bright: Irish Independent, July 14, 2007 (review by Maurice Hayes)
Orange Order must adhere to Christian ethos: (from the Irish Times, July 17, 2007 by Brian Kennaway)
Unlocking the closed doors of the Orangeism: The News Letter, June 5, 2007 (review by Brian Kennaway)
Orangeism's role in the new Ulster: The News Letter, May 28, 2007 (extract)
Paisley in call for loyalists to unite: The News Letter, May 25, 2007 (extract)
The Orange Order prepares for war: The News Letter, May 25, 2007 (extract)
An Orange history from inside: The News Letter, May 21, 2007 (by Eric P. Kaufmann)
Parades Commission divides the Order: The News Letter, May 23, 2007 (extract)
The Orange Order in Bandit Country: The News Letter, May 22, 2007 (extract)
Blair, the Order and Drumcree: The News Letter, May 22, 2007 (extract)
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Mervyn Jess's The Orange Order
The past burns bright: Irish Independent, July 14, 2007 (review by Maurice Hayes)
Orange Order must adhere to Christian ethos: (from the Irish Times, July 17, 2007 by Brian Kennaway)
Orange Order Wants No Help: Irish Voice/IrishAbroad.com, July 13, 2007 (by Paddy Clancy)
Drumcree 'dance' that spawned a monster: Belfast Telegraph, May 21, 2007 (extract)
Sinn Féin, the Orange Order and the march of time: Belfast Telegraph, May 22, 2007 (extract)
So, what really happens behind lodge doors ...: Belfast Telegraph, May 22, 2007 (extract)
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John Bew, Martyn Frampton, & Inigo Gurruchaga Talking to Terrorists: Making Peace in Northern Ireland and the Basque Country
Talking to terrorists is dangerous: (from the Ulster News Letter, July 25, 2009, review by Jeff Dudgeon)
Talking to terrorists – it's a messy mix of soft soap and hard power: Irish Examiner, May 27, 2009 (by Steven King)
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)
History of terrorism offers lessons on conflicts: Sunday Business Post, May 31, 2009 (review by Rory Miller)
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Ruth Dudley Edwards Aftermath: The Omagh Bombing and the Families' Pursuit of Justice
Aftermath, By Ruth Dudley Edwards: The Independent, July 24, 2009 (review by David McKittrick)
After Omagh – the families who took on the bombers: Irish Independent, July 18, 2009 (interview with Dudley Edwards by John Spain)
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)
Shameless betrayal – How Omagh victims were left to confront bombers themselves after Blair failed to deliver justice: Daily Mail, June 16, 2009 (extract)
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)
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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Micheal O Siochru's God's Executioner: Oliver Cromwell and the Conquest of Ireland
God's Executioner: Irish Democrat, April 29, 2009 (review by Michael O'Sullivan)
God's Executioner – Oliver Cromwell and the Conquest of Ireland: Sunday Tribune, May 24, 2009 (review by Tom Widger)
Ahern says he did not leave Cook's office over Cromwell: The Irish Times, October 10, 2008 (by Pamela Newenham)
Was Cromwell really the devil incarnate?: Irish Independent, September 20, 2008 (review by Maurice Hayes)
God's Executioner: Oliver Cromwell and the Conquest of Ireland by Micheal O Siochru: The Sunday Times, August 17, 2008 (by John Carey)
Brute force: The Guardian, September 20, 2008 (review by Ronan Bennett)
Definitive word on Ireland's tormentor: Sunday Business Post, September 14, 2008 (review by Andrew Lynch)
Review – God's Executioner by Micheál Ó Siochrú: Daily Telegraph, September 6, 2008 (review by Marcus Nevitt)
Why Cromwell's chequered life is well worth a read: Belfast Telegraph, September 8, 2008 (by Pól Ó Muirí)
Hidden History – Cromwell in Ireland: Irish Independent, September 6, 2008 (review by Paul Whitington)
The Big Question – Was Cromwell a revolutionary hero or a genocidal war criminal?: The Independent, September 4, 2008
Massacres at Drogheda and Wexford were 'war crimes': Sunday Independent, August 31, 2008
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