Danny Morrison's Rebel Columns

1. Rebel Columns/Choosing the Green: Irish Democrat, January 6, 2005 (review by Pegeen O'Sullivan)
2. Rebel with a cause: (from the Irish News, July 31, 2004 reivew by Robert McMillen)

Martin Dillon's The Trigger Men

1. Billy Wright 'was British agent': (from the Irish News, October 27, 2003 by Darran McCann)
2. A history of collusion, murder and deceit: Irish Democrat, September 9, 2004 (review by David Granville)
3. In the Underworld with the Trigger Men: The Blanket, January 6, 2005 (review by Sean Mc Aughey)

Thomas Lynch's Booking Passage: We Irish and Americans

1. "Booking Passage" – An Irish way of storytelling: Seattle Times, August 5, 2005 (review by Clarence Brown)
2. Undertaking a journey home to Ireland: Chicago Sun Times, June 12, 2005 (review by Stephen J. Lyons)
3. The poet undertakes a reviving journey home: The Independent, August 19, 2005 (review by Patricia Craig)
4. 'Booking Passage' – Sublime and Treeless: New York Times, June 12, 2005 (review by Joseph O'Neill)
5. An Irish rag-bag: The Guardian, November 5, 2005 (review by Lionel Shriver)

Gustave de Beaumont's Ireland

1. New insight into Irish history: Sunday Business Post, May 21, 2006 (review by Iain McMenamin)

Michael O'Riordan's The Connolly Column

1. The Connolly Column: Irish Democrat, April 11, 2005 (review by Ruan O'Donnell and John Corcoran)

Carlo Gebler's The Siege of Derry

1. Telling both sides of the Siege of Derry: Sunday Business Post, March 6, 2005 (review by Derek Hand)
2. The view from both sides of Derry's walls: Irish Independent, March 12, 2005 (review by Steven King)
3. The Siege of Derry, by Carlo Gébler: The Independent, March 17, 2005 (review by Frank McLynn)

Chris Moore's Ripe for the Picking

1. Northern Bank book 'could be prejudicial': (from the Irish News, June 9, 2006)
2. Anatomy of a £26.5m heist: Sunday Life, May 21, 2006 (extract)
3. Bank raid that shook Ulster to the core...: Sunday Life, May 14, 2006 (by Chris Moore)

Maurice J. Bric & John Coakley (editors) From Political Violence To Negotiated Settlement: The Winding Path To Peace In Twentieth-century Ireland

1. From Political Violence to Negotiated Settlement: Irish Democrat, January 6, 2005 (review by Roy Johnston)

John Newsinger's Rebel City: Larkin, Connolly and the Dublin Labour Movement

1. Rebel City: The Blanket, May 22, 2005 (review by Liam O Ruairc)
2. Dublin – rebel city: Movement for a Socialist Future (review by Laurence Humphries)
3. Dubliners: Socialist Review, September 2004 (review by Kieran Crowe)
4. The Bath University view of Big Jim: Irish Independent, August 7, 2004 (review by Gerald Flynn)

Michael Doorley's Irish-American Diaspora Nationalism: The Friends of Irish Freedom, 1916-1935

1. New book recalls Devoy-Dev split: Irish Echo, November 11, 2005 (by Peter McDermott)

Battles Beyond the Boyne: Orangemen in the Ranks 1798-2000

1. Murdered Orangemen remembered in book: (from the Irish News, November 10, 2005, by William Scholes)

Mary E Daly's (editor) Roger Casement in Irish and World History

1. The gay smear hurt the British more than it did Casement: Sunday Independent, April 16, 2006 (by Donal McCartney)

Ronald A Wells's Friendship Towards Peace: The Journey of Ken Newell and Gerry Reynolds

1. A remarkable friendship: (from Irelandclick.com, June, 2, 2005)

Michael Foy's Michael Collins's Intelligence War: The Struggle Between the British And the IRA – 1919-1921

1. Parallels in SF spy sagas: (from the Irish News, April 15, by AP Maginness)
2. Collins book's startling claim on Molly Childers: Sunday Business Post, April 16, 2006 (review by Emmanuel Kehoe)
3. Molly, the alleged spy at heart of Collins's war machine: Irish Independent, April 29, 2006 (review by Alan Dukes, Part I) — Part II
4. Wife of Childers 'was a British spy': The Sunday Times. April 2, 2006 (by John Burns)

Alan Woods's Ireland: Republicanism and Revolution

1. 'Screamingly Funny in its Absurdity': The Blanket, March 9, 2006 (review by Liam O Ruairc)
2. Ireland – Imperialism and National Revolution: The Blanket, October/November 2005 (review by Robert Clough)

Richard O'Rawe's Blanketmen: An untold story of the H-Block hunger strike The Conflict Encapsulated: The Blanket, August 2005 (review by David Adams) 'Dying wasn't their decision': (from the Irish News, Mar 2) A Salute to Comrades: The Blanket, May 18, 2005 (review by Dolours Price) Dramas out of crises: The Observer, May 1, 2005 (review by Henry McDonald) Dead Men Talking ...: Irish Independent, March 26, 2005 (review by Maurice Hayes) A bizarre tale with a ring of authenticity: Western People, April 7, 2005 (review by John Cooney) A Must Read: The Blanket, March 18, 2005 (review by Mick Hall) Hunger strike revisited: Daily Ireland, March 25, 2005 A Spartan's Story: The Blanket, April 24, 2005 (review by Anthony McIntyre) Buy O'Rawe's Blanketmen Or in UK£ Or in CDN$ Or in €

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Anne Cadwallader's Holy Cross: The Untold Story

1. I don't think any good came out of it. There were no winners: (from the Irish News, November 11, 2004 by Brian Campbell)
2. Haunting tale of a school under siege: Sunday Business Post, December 5, 2004 (review by Anne Tanney)
3. The kind of fear that adults only imagine: (from the Irish News, extract, November 13, 2004)
4. The day the loyalists bombed the children: (from the Irish News, extract, November 12, 2004)
5. New book on Holy Cross: UTV Internet, November 11, 2004

Walter Ellis's Beginning of the End: The Crippling Disadvantage of a Happy Irish Childhood

1. Delving into the shadows: (from the Irish News, April 8, 2006, by AP Maginness)
2. The Beginning of the End: Irish Democrat, April 5, 2006 (review by Peter Berresford Ellis)
3. Diary of a Somebody from the North . . .: Irish Independent, April 1, 2006 (review by Maurice Hayes)
4. Survival of the ambitious: The Sunday Times, February 26, 2006 (extract)
5. My killing cousin: The Sunday Times, February 19, 2006 (extract)
6. Life in a silent movie: Belfast Telegraph, February 27, 2005

Billy Kennedy's Our Most Priceless Heritage: The Lasting Legacy of the Scots-Irish in America

1. Book signings, talks and a bit of spring gleaning: The News Letter, April 3, 2006 (by Billy Kennedy)
2. Ireland and the Americas: (from the Irish News, December 31, 2005, by AP Maginness)

Brian Girvin's The Emergency: Neutral Ireland 1939-45

1. One thing is certain – Dev was never a ladies man: Sunday Independent, April 23, 2006
2. The Emergency: Scotland on Sunday, March 26, 2006 (review by Tom Adair)
3. State of emergency: Sunday Tribune, March 2006 (review by Diarmaid Ferriter)
4. Hostile approach to Irish neutrality: Sunday Business Post, March 26, 2006 (review by Tim Pat Coogan)

Martina Purdy's Room 21: Stormont – Behind Closed Doors

1. Forget Donaldson, this is the Executive's real story: Irish Independent, January 7, 2006 (review by Maurice Hayes)
2. Opening a few windows on the inner workings of the Executive: (from the News Letter, November 14, 2005, review by Billy Kennedy)
3. From Bogside republican to minister for education: (from the Irish News, November 10, 2005, extract)
4. When push came to shove at Stormont: (from the Irish News, November 9, 2005, extract)
5. Mallon kept in dark about deputy first minister role: (from the Irish News, November 9, 2005, extract)

Eamonn McCann's The Bloody Sunday Inquiry: The Families Speak Out

1. The grief that lies behind the Bloody Sunday statistics: Belfast Telegraph, December 22, 2005 (extract)
2. 'The Bloody Sunday Inquiry – The Families Speak Out': Derry Journal, December 9, 2005 (by Julieann Campbell)
3. Gamut of emotions run for those who ran for their lives: (from the Irish News, December 7, 2005, extracts)
4. Families speak out in Bloody Sunday book: (from the Irish News, December 7, 2005, by Seamus McKinney)

Fr. Aidan Troy's Holy Cross

1. Father Troy book success is "good news for Holy Cross": (from Irelandclick.com, by Evan Short, January 5, 2006)
2. Book Reveals Plot Against Loyalist Homes: The News Letter, December 9, 2005 (by Lesley Walsh)
3. Fr Troy tells of his battles with NIO during protests: (from the Irish News, December 5, 2005)
4. Fr Troy launches book on Holy Cross dispute: (from Irelandclick.com, December 2, 2005, by Áine McEntee)
5. Holy Cross priest tells tale: Belfast Telegraph, December 1, 2005 (by Kathryn Torney)

Michael Kerr's Transforming Unionism: David Trimble And the Gereral Election 2005

1. The rise and fall of 'the most contradictory man I ever met': The Independent, December 1, 2005 (review by David McKittrick)
2. How it all went wrong: (from the Belfast Telegraph, November 3, 2005, extract)

Henry McDonald and Jim Cusack's The UDA: Inside the Heart of Loyalist Terror

1. Heart of darkness: Irish Independent, December 11, 2004 (review by Edward McCann)
2. The underbelly of a city of assassins: The Observer, October 3, 2004
3. Loyalists at war — Shot boy in the head: Sunday Life, September 26, 2004
4. Loyalists at war — Squalid death of a 12-times killer: Sunday Life, September 26, 2004
5. Loyalists at war — Duff ammo saved lives: Sunday Life, September 26, 2004
6. Loyalists at war — Provo links sealed Craig's fate: Sunday Life, September 26, 2004
7. Loyalists at war — Mad Dog's sick boasts before the blood had dried: Sunday Life, September 26, 2004
8. Loyalists at war — How guns handover was spiked: Sunday Life, September 19, 2004
9. Loyalists at war — No boundaries to evil: Sunday Life, September 19, 2004
10. Loyalists at war — Nelson mark II: Sunday Life, September 19, 2004
11. Loyalists at war — Sacrificed: Sunday Life, September 19, 2004

Chris Ryder's A Special Kind of Courage: Bomb Disposal and the Inside Story of 321 EOD Squadron

1. Life and death – telling the story of the Troubles: (from the Irish News, June 4, 2005, review by AP Maginness)
2. Battling the bombers – Bringing the gentle touch to defusal – Sunday Life, May 1, 2005 (extract)
3. Battling the bombers – Even ticking device couldn't blow away sexist views – Sunday Life, May 1, 2005 (extract)
4. Battling the bombers – Accused of cowardice – Sunday Life, May 1, 2005 (extract)
5. Battling the bombers – 'It's the fear that keeps you going' – Sunday Life, May 1, 2005 (extract)
6. Battling the bombers – The day a team leader cracked – Sunday Life, May 1, 2005 (extract)
7. Battling the bombers – 'Nerve ends were wriggling around like bits of spaghetti' – Sunday Life, May 1, 2005 (extract)
8. Battling the bombers – Dangerous business for terrorist too – Sunday Life, May 1, 2005 (extract)
9. Battling the bombers – It's the rope for you, chum – Sunday Life, May 1, 2005 (extract)
10. Battling the bombers – Blow it sky high: Sunday Life, April 24 (extract)
11. Battling the bombers – Hero's near miss: Sunday Life, April 24 (extract)
12. Battling the bombers – Paying the price: Sunday Life, April 24 (extract)
13. Battling the bombers – Tackling the tanker bombs: Sunday Life, April 24 (extract)
14. Battling the bombers – Provos plan a 'bomb surprise': Sunday Life, April 24 (extract)
15. Battling the bombers – IRA 'animals' try double death bid: Sunday Life, April 24 (extract)
16. Battling the bombers – Provos bag space boffin: Sunday Life, April 24 (extract)
17. Battling the bombers – The 'Gelly' shock that wobbled the British: Sunday Life, April 24 (extract)

Dean Godson's Himself Alone: David Trimble and the Ordeal of Unionism

1. Himself Alone: Irish Democrat, April 11, 2005 (review by Thomas Kenny)
2. Differing impressions of the ulster political scene, chapter and verse: Belfast Telegraph, October 27, 2004 (by Steven King)
3. Arise Ye Bored And Read Again: The Blanket, Autumn 2004 (review by Anthony McIntyre)
4. The loneliness of a long-distance loyalist: The Independent, September 16, 2004 (review by Austen Morgan)
5. The mild man of the North's one fatal flaw: Sunday Independent (September 5, 2004 review by Ed Moloney)
6. Riveting Trimble: Sunday Business Post, July 4, 2004 (review by Andrew Lynch)
7. Playing poker in the Last Chance Saloon: The Spectator, June 26, 2004 (review by Henry Patterson)
8. A man with a mission: (from the Irish News, July 17, 2004, review by William Graham)
9. The Passion of a Passive Man: Electric Review, July 8, 2004
10. Authoritative biography by peace process critic: (from the Sunday World, June 27, 2004, review by Gary Kent)
11. Triumph, tragedy and Elvis: The Observer, July 4, 2004 (review by Neasa MacErlean)
12. Godson Alone...: Belfast Telegraph, July 2, 2004 (by Gail Walker)
13. David Trimble's not alone in his disdain for Gerry Adams: Sunday Independent, June 13, 2004 (review by Eilis O'Hanlon)
14. Trimble book reveals his Sinn Fein preferences: The Sunday Times, June 6, 2004 (by Alan Ruddock)
15. Irish Lesson: National Review Online, June 21, 2004 (by David Frum)
16. Irish Lesson II: National Review Online, June 22, 2004 (by David Frum)

Aogan Mulcahy's Policing Northern Ireland: Conflict, Legitimacy, and Reform

1. Burying the B-Special legacy in the North: Irish Independent, February 18, 2006 (review by Maurice Hayes)

Toby Barnard's A New Anatomy of Ireland : The Irish Protestants, 1649-1770 & Making the Grand Figure : Lives and Possessions in Ireland, 1641-1770

1. Ireland's Forgotten Protestants: Christianity Today, January/February 2006 (review by Mary Noll Venables)

Kevin Rafter's Sinn Fein 1905-2005

1. Sinn Fein's bogus 100 year history: Irish Independent, January 14, 2006 (review by Michael McDowell)

Marianne Elliot's The Catholics of Ulster: A History

1. Smouldering fires of old discontent: Sunday Independent, October 22, 2000 (review by Muarice Hayes)
2. Time to lift the threat of violence: Irish News, November 14, 2000 (review by Denis Bradley)

William Sheehan's British Voices From the Irish War of Independence 1918-1921

1. Telling the truth about the Black and Tans: Irish Independent, January 7, 2006 (review by Brian Lynch)

Brian Rowan's Paisley and the Provos: The bugs, the bank job, the broken deal

1. Ulster's lingering Paisley question: Belfast Telegraph, January 21, 2006 (review by David Gordon)
2. Book looks at role to be played by Paisley And The Provos: (from the Irish News, December 8, 2005)

Elaine Sisson's Pearse's Patriots: St. Enda's and The Cult of Boyhood

1. St Enda's and the Cult of Boyhood: Irish Democrat, October 25, 2004 (review by Shayla Walmsley)

Gerard Murray and Jonathan Tonge's The SDLP and Sinn Fein, 1970-2001: From Alienation to Participation in Northern Ireland

1. How John led and Gerry followed: Irish Independent, May 7, 2005 (review by Maurice Hayes)

James Webb's Born Fighting : How the Scots-Irish Shaped America

1. Still fighting on... these rebels without a cause: Belfast Telegraph, November 12, 2005 (by Walter Ellis)
2. Gettin' Our Scots-Irish Up: National Review Online, November 15, 2004 (review by Mackubin Thomas Owens)
3. 'Born Fighting' explains source of American spirit: Flint Journal, November 7, 2004 (review by Todd Seibt)
4. The Real Divide – Waterside Voters Versus Inlanders: New York Times, November 7, 2004 (review by John Tierney)
5. 'Talk to someone in Cincinnati? Are you crazy?'. . . and so the Democrats blew it: The Sunday Times, November 7 (by Tom Wolfe & Margarette Driscoll)
6. Inventing the Irish: Washington Post, November 14, 2004 (review by Malachy McCourt — 1 of 3, scroll down)

Garbhan Downey's Private Diary of a Suspended MLA

1. Stormont's secret world of political suspense: (from the Irish News, October 22, 2004 by Seamus McKinney)
2. The Private Diary of a Suspended MLA: (from the Irish News, October 22, 2004, extract)
3. Stormont's secret world of political suspense: (from the Irish News, October 22, 2004, extract)

John Stevens's Not for the Faint Hearted: My Life Fighting Crime

1. The practical policeman: Sunday Telegraph, October 16, 2005 (review by Alasdair Palmer)
2. They tried to burn me out of Ulster. Was it our own spies?: The Times, September 13, (extract)
3. Scaring off the men of violence: The Times, September 13, (extract)
4. Lord Stevens still has much more to reveal: Belfast Telegraph, October 29, 2005 (review by Chris Thornton)

William Kelly & John R. Young(eds.) Ulster and Scotland, 1600-2000: History, Language and Identity

1. Ulster and Scotland: Irish Democrat, October 2, 2004 (review by Roy Johnston)

Sabine Wichert (ed.) From the United Irishmen to Twentieth-century Unionism: Essays in Honour of A.T.Q. Stewart

1. Festschrift in honour of ATQ Stewart: Irish Democrat, October 2, 2004 (review by Roy Johnston)

Brian Lennon's Peace Comes Dropping Slow: Dialogue and Conflict Management in Northern Ireland

1. The very slow haul to peace: (from the Irish News, October 16, 2004)

Alan F. Parkinson's Belfast's Unholy War

1. Book remembers victims of the 'forgotten conflict': (from the Irish News, September 25, 2004, review by Eunan McConville)

Newton Emerson's The Portadown News: The Best Bits

1. Newton Books His Site In Satire: The News Letter, October 19, 2004 (by Johnny Caldwell)

Mary P. Corcoran & Mark O'Brien (editors) Political Censorship and the Democratic State: The Irish Broadcasting Ban

1. Intriguing insight into RTÉ and the censorship law known as Section 31: Daily Ireland, March 31, 2005
2. Section 31 gag and other media censorship fuels political unrest: Sunday Independent, April 3, 2005 (by Colum Kenny)
3. Lies, Sinn Fein and Section 31: Irish Independent, February 26, 2005 (review by Gerry Gregg)

Austin Currie's All Hell Will Break Loose

1. Ex-hellraiser who helped force Britain to intervene: (from the Irish News, September 27, 2004, by Darran McCann)
2. Currie book 'corrects rewriting of history': (from the Irish News, September 9, 2004)

Elaine Moore & Tony McCullagh's Danger To Society: Elaine Moore's Story

1. Danger to Society: The Blanket, May 25, 2004 (review by Chrissie McGlinchey)

Clare Short's An Honourable Deception?: New Labour, Iraq, and the Misuse of Power

1. Short odds on a best seller: (from the Irish Post, January 15, 2005, by Paul Donovan)

Richard Doherty's Thin Green Line

1. Author's tribute to RUC: Sunday Life, November 21, 2004 (by Sinead McCavana)

Malachy McCourt's History of Ireland

1. 'Tis a grand tale of Irish history McCourt spins in latest work: Boston Herald, November 6, 2004 (review by Ray Flynn)
2. An Irish Way with Words: Washington Post, December 26, 2004 (review by Dennis Drabelle)
3. Mellow Malachy? Surprising insights into Irish history: Irish Echo, December 3, 2004 (review by Terry Golway)

David Lister and Hugh Jordan's Mad Dog: The Rise And Fall Of Johnny Adair And 'c Company'

1. The downfall of Mad Dog Adair: The Observer, October 5, 2004 (extract) —Part II
2. Fighting For The Right To Be A British Drug Dealer: The Blanket, September 2004 (review by Anthony McIntyre)
3. Sordid tales of Mad dogs and Billy boys: Irish Democrat, April 2004 (review by David Granville)

Paul Howard's Hostage: Notorious Irish Kidnappings

1. Detailed analysis of most famous IRA abductions: Sunday Business Post, June 13, 2004 (review by Jonathan O'Brien)

Leonard Piper's Dangerous Waters: The Life and Death of Erskine Childers

1. Incapable of compromise: New Statesman, February 10, 2003 (review by William Cook)
2. Irish intrigue, geisha woes, Canadian angst: Washington Times, May 13, 2003 (review by William F. Gavin)

Peter Berresford Ellis's Eyewitness to Irish History

1. Passage through the annals of Irish civilisation: Irish Democrat, July 19, 2004 (review by Joe Jamison)
2. One-sided history – no unionists here: Irish Independent, August 14, 2004 (review by Steven King)

Alan Barker's Shadows: Inside Northern Ireland's Special Branch

1. Slanted tale of an RUC 'handler': Sunday Business Post, November 21, 2004 (review by Paul T Colgan)
2. Shadows – inside Northern Ireland's Special Branch: Irish Democrat, January 11, 2005 (review by David Granville)

George Moore's Parnell and His Island — Carla King (Editor)

1. Expanding our understanding of Irish landlordism: Irish Democrat 2004 (by Roy Johnston)

Marcus Tanner's The Last of the Celts

1. The Last of the Celts, by Marcus Tanner: The Independent, December 29, 2004 (review by Ray Ryan)
2. 'Eternal Elves of the West': The Blanket, December 9, 2004 (review by Seaghán Ó Murchú)
3. 'The Last of the Celts' is a lively examination of 'language death': Boston Globe, October 12, 2004 (review by Michael Kenney)
4. Inventing the Irish: Washington Post, November 14, 2004 (review by Malachy McCourt — 1 of 3, scroll down)
5. The Celtic twilight: Toronto Globe and Mail, November 6, 2004 (review by David A. Wilson)

Ella O'Dwyer's The Rising Of The Moon : The Language of Power

1. The Rising of the Moon – the language of power: The Blanket, January 2004 (review by Liam O Ruairc)

Frank Millar's David Trimble: The Price of Peace

1. The great, the good and the well-endowed: The Times, December 11, 2004 (scroll down for short review by Matthew Parris)
2. Like a massive rocket, standing on legs of fire, about to rise and reach out: Sunday Independent, December 5, 2004 (by Eoghan Harris)
3. Trimble – The unrewarded risk-taker: Irish Independent, November 20, 2004 (review by Maurice Hayes)
4. A handle on hope and history: (from the Irish Times, November 3, 2004, extract)
5. Republicans Can Join PSNI – Trimble: The News Letter, November 8, 2004 (by Stephen Dempster)
6. Trimble on the DUP: (from the Irish Times, November 3, 2004, extract)
7. Slim volume on Trimble attracts crowd of analysts: Belfast Telegraph, November 11, 2004 (by Ian Hill)
8. Trimble on his faith: Belfast Telegraph, November 4, 2004 (extract)
9. Did Trimble do enough to save the RUC?: Belfast Telegraph, November 3, 2004 (extract)

Malachi O'Doherty's I Was a Teenage Catholic

1. Book review: lion & lamb, Spring/Summer 2004 (review by Fran Porter)
2. Secular salvation: The Observer, November 2, 2003 (review by Henry McDonald)

Terry de Valera's A Memoir – Terry de Valera

1. Dev' is revealed as a loving family man: (from the Irish News, July 31, 2004 by James Kelly)

Marcus Tanner's Ireland's Holy Wars: the struggle for a nation's soul 1500-2000

1. 'Religious Apartheid': America Magazine, 2004 (review by Nancy J. Curtin)
2. Ireland's Holy Wars: The Struggle For A Nation's Soul 1500-2000 by Marcus Tanner: Sunday Business Post, January 20, 2002 (review by Enda Delaney)
   

Martin Mansergh's The Legacy of History

1. An Irish legacy of the Enlightenment: Irish Democrat, April 2004 (review by Ken Keable)

Gabriel Doherty & Dermot Keogh's De Valera's Irelands

1. After the dancing at the crossroads . . .: Irish Independent, January 10, 2004 (review by James Downey)

Ronan Gallagher's Violence and Nationalist Politics in Derry City, 1920-23

1. The long view: Irish Democrat, April 2004 (review by Shayla Walmsley)

Fearghal McGarry's Republicanism in Modern Ireland

1. Biggles and the Provos: The Blanket, March 22, 2004 (review by Kevin Bean)

Ray Rivlin's Shalom Ireland: A Social History of Jews in Modern Ireland

1. The lost tribe of Limerick: Limerick Leader, December 6, 2003 (review by Brendan Halligan) — NOTE: Ray Rivlin is a woman
2. Being Jewish In Ireland: RTE, January 22, 2004

Paddy Hayes's Break-out!: Famous Prison Escapes

1. Trio who flew out of the cage: Sunday Life, March 28, 2004 (extract)
2. Smooth American with dirty shoes: Sunday Life, March 28, 2004 (extract)
3. Dare raid: Sunday Life, March 28, 2004 (extract)
4. Back behind bars: Sunday Life, March 28, 2004 (extract)
5. The great escape: Sunday Life, March 28, 2004 (extract)
6. Escape from Ulster's Alcatraz: Sunday Life, March 28, 2004 (extract)
7. Balloons and cabbages: Sunday Life, March 28, 2004 (extract)
8. The four to the fore: Sunday Life, March 21, 2004 (extract)
9. What justice for man of courage?: Sunday Life, March 21, 2004 (extract)
10. The ones that got away... and the ones that didn't: Sunday Life, March 21, 2004 (extract)
11. On the run: Sunday Life, March 21, 2004 (extract)
12. Warders lulled into false sense of security: Sunday Life, March 21, 2004 (extract)
13. 'Houdini' Marley: Man with a plan: Sunday Life, March 21, 2004 (extract)
14. Masterplan sprouted from seeds of defeat: Sunday Life, March 21, 2004 (extract)

John Mooney & Michael O'Toole's Black Operations: The Secret War Against the Real IRA

1. Is This The Real IRA?: The Blanket, April 1, 2004 (review by Liam O Ruairc)

Gerry Adams's A Farther Shore: Ireland's Long Road to Peace

1. Talking about Hope and History: Irish World, September 10, 2004 (by Tom Griffin)
2. Ireland's Perennial Outsider – No Confession, No Apology: New York Times, January 20, 2004 (review by Brian Lavery)
3. Sinn Fein's Gerry Adams strains credibility: Pittsburgh Post Gazette, December 28, 2003 (review by Dennis B. Roddy)
4. 'A Farther Shore': Getting to Yes in Ireland: New York Times, December 14, 2003 (review by Joseph O'Neill)
5. 'A Farther Shore': New York Times, December 14, 2003 (first chapter)
6. Sinn Fein leader tells his side of the story: Boston Globe, January 1, 2004 (review by Kevin Cullen)
7. Hope and History: Irish World, October 31, 2003 (review by Tom Griffin)
8. Dies IRAe: The Blanket, December 13, 2003 (review by Ruth Dudley Edwards)
9. A Farther Shore (excerpt): Denver Post, December 14, 2003
10. Cheap and malignant Anglophobia: Sunday Independent, November 23, 2003 (review by John A. Murphy)
11. How Does Gerry Adams Stay Awake through it all?: Fortnight, November, 2003 (by Rudie Goldsmith
12. Inside the private life of Gerry Adams: Daily Mirror, October 18, 2003 (review by Jenny Johnston)
13. Hope and History: Irish World, October 31, 2003 (review by Tom Griffin)
14. The many tales of Gerry Adams: (from the News Letter, October 2, 2003 by Suzanne Breen)

Paul Larkin's A Very British Jihad: Collusion, Conspiracy and Cover-up in Northern Ireland

1. How Britain waged a religious war in the North: Sunday Business Post, July 4, 2004 (review by Paul T. Colgan)
2. Unwittingly Demonstrating the Limits of Collusion: Fortnight, June 2004 (review by Adrian Guelke)
3. Top choice: (from the Irish News, May 8, 2004, review by Brian Feeney)
4. File this one under 'fantasy': Irish Independent, April 4, 2004 (review by Steven King)

Tomas O Canainn's Seán Ó Riada: His Life and Work

1. Sean O Riada celebrated in new book: Irish Independent, December 4, 2003 (review by Grainne Cunningham)

Barry McCaffrey's Alex Maskey: Man and Mayor

1. 'We say to those engaged in sectarianism: please, please stop!': (from the Irish News, October 14, 2003, extract)
2. A step into the spotlight: (from Irelandclick.com, October 16, 2003, by Allison Morris)
3. The making of a mayor: (from the Irish News, October 14, 2003, author interview by Brian Campbell)

Ruán O'Donnell's Robert Emmet and the Rebellion of 1798 & Robert Emmet and the Rising of 1803

1. Life and times of Robert Emmet: Irish Independent, August 16, 2003 (reviews by Steven King)

Alvin Jackson's Home Rule: An Irish History, 1800-2000

1. Home Rule and history in the making: Irish Independent, August 2, 2003 (review by Steven King)
2. Parnell's people: The Guardian, July 26, 2003 (review by Garret FitzGerald)

Francis P. Gallagher's A Blood Red Autumn: Thomas Russell and the Irish Rising of 1803

1. Real spirit of Thomas Russell: (from the Irish News, September 1, 2003)
   

Sean Sexton & Christine Kinealy's The Irish: A Photohistory, 1840-1940

1. Photographs from a turbulent century: Irish Democrat, March 2003 (review by David Granville)

Janet Todd's Daughters of Ireland: The Rebellious Kingsborough Sisters and the Making of a Modern Nation

1. Book review: Publishers Weekly, November 17, 2003
2. Book Review: Booklist (review by Patricia Monaghan)
3. Book review: Choice Magazine
4. Book review: Library Journal
5. Rebel Daughters: Ireland in Conflict 1798 by Janet Todd: The Independent, June 29, 2003 (review by Mark Bostridge)

Martin Ingram and Greg Harkin's Stakeknife: Britain's Secret Agents in Ireland

1. The serrated edge of Britain's dirty war: Irish Democrat, August 24, 2004 (review by Paul Donovan)
2. On Whose Side – Stakeknife: The Blanket, July 5, 2004 (review by Mick Hall)
3. Living on a knife edge: (from the Irish News, April 24, 2004)
4. Intrigue and the conflict: Belfast Telegraph, April 17, 2004 (review by Paul Connolly)
5. The enemies within: Irish Post/IrishAbroad.com, April 9, 2004 (review by Michael Hall)
6. Spookaticci: Fortnight, April 2004 (review by Anthony McIntyre)
7. On the Record: The Blanket, February 19, 2004 (by Kathleen O Halloran)
8. The secrets of Stakeknife: The Sunday Times, Sunday February 8, 2004 (by Martin Ingram)
9. The sadist signed up by the FRU: Sunday Life, February 15, 2004 (extract)
10. Stakeknife at the heart of the IRA – The plotters: Sunday Life, February 15, 2004 (extract)
11. Betrayed by MI5 defector: Sunday Life, February 15, 2004 (extract)
12. Murder machine – Nelson's victims: Sunday Life, February 15, 2004 (extract)
13. Expendable – Branch spy sacrificed: Sunday Life, February 15, 2004 (extract)
14. Document that damns Scap's lies: (from The People, February 8, 2004)
15. The truth is at stake: The Guardian, March 22, 2004 (by Roy Greenslade)
16. This terror tale should have a health warning: Irish Independent, March 20, 2004 (review by Maurice Hayes)
17. Stakeknife – Scap exposed: Sunday Life, February 8, 2004 (extract)
18. Book lifts lid on Stakeknife: (from The People, February 8, 2004)
19. Why my daddy – UDA spy's forgotten victim: Sunday Life, February 15, 2004
20. MoD injunction on Stakeknife author: The Guardian, February 24, 2004 (by Ciar Byrne)
21. Dirty war — dirtier than many republicans imagined: (from the Derry Journal, February 20, 2004, by Greg Harkin)
22. Expendable – Branch spy sacrificed: Sunday Life, February 15, 2004
23. Betrayed by MI5 defector: Sunday Life, February 15, 2004
24. Murder machine – Nelson's victims: Sunday Life, February 15, 2004
25. The sadist signed up by the FRU: Sunday Life, February 15, 2004
26. Stakeknife at the heart of the IRA – The plotters: Sunday Life, February 15, 2004

Susan Hood's Royal Roots -- Republican Inheritance: the survival of the Irish Office of Arms

1. A tour of heraldic offices: Irish Democrat, March 2003 (review by Peter Berresford Ellis)

Tim Pat Coogan's Ireland in the 20th Century

1. A century when Ireland threw off the manacles: Philadelphia Inquirer, March 17, 2004 (review by Allen Barra)
2. Tim Pat tells it as it is: Limerick Leader, December 6, 2003 (review by Martin Byrnes)

Liam Clarke and Kathryn Johnston's Martin McGuinness: From Guns to Government O'Comain Repeats 'Hatchet Job' Allegation: Derry Journal, February 10, 2004 Derry's Papa Doc: The Blanket (review by Deaglán Ó Donghaile) McGuinness' trials are far from over: (from Belfast Telegraph, Nov 19, 2001, review by Malachi O'Doherty) — link dead The dark past of Martin McGuinness: Sunday Independent, December 23, 2001 (review by Ruth Dudley Edwards) 'A natural Provo': Daily Telegraph, December 15, 2001 (review by Henry Patterson) Fascinating biography of "Britain's Public Enemy Number One": (from SourceUK.net, November 2001, review by Gary Kent) A shot across the bows misses its target: The Independent, November 29, 2001 (review by John O'Farrell) — link dead Hira Potter's Plot: (from Irelandclick.com), November 27, 2001 (review by Danny Morrison) Buy Clarke & Johnston's Martin McGuiness Or in UK£ Or in CDN$ Or in €

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Danny Morrison's All the Dead Voices

1. Discovering a 'delight in life' in books: (by Jude Collins, from the Irish News, December 5, 2002)
2. Once a volunteer: (extract from Irelandclick.com, November 25, 2002)
3. Jimmy Quigley: (extract from Irelandclick.com, December 2, 2002)
4. Jimmy's Death: (extract from Irelandclick.com, December 9, 2002)

Bill Rolston's Drawing Support 3

1. Painting a picture of Belfast's history: (from the Irish News, August 25, 2003, by Jenny Lee)

Chris Ryder's The Fateful Split: Catholics and the Royal Ulster Constabulary

1. From bigoted beginnings to the point of no return: (from the Irish News, February 9, 2004, by Brain Campbell)
2. Midnight approaches for the "Cinderella service": (from the Irish News, February 9, 2004, extract)
3. Deadly legacy: Sunday Life, January 11, 2004
4. Force run on a shoestring: Sunday Life, January 11, 2004
5. Drop RUC Name Move in 1969: The News Letter, January 5, 2003 (by Dan McGinn)
6. RUC/Army feud over riot role: Sunday Life, January 11, 2004
7. Heath feared Craig coup: Sunday Life, January 11, 2004
8. Battle of the Bogside: Sunday Life, January 11, 2004
9. Catholics are not meant to be in RUC: Irish Independent, January 10, 2004 (review by Maurice Hayes)
10. RUC change 'suggested 35 years ago': Reading Chronicle, January 5, 2004
11. Hume's view prevailed: Sunday Life, January 4, 2004
12. Reverberations of 'white noise': Sunday Life, January 4, 2004
13. Internment: Sunday Life, January 4, 2004
14. Inquiry judge comment makes natural title: Sunday Life, January 4, 2004
15. Up in flames: Sunday Life, January 4, 2004
16. Ulster PM blown out of office: Sunday Life, January 4, 2004

James S. Donnelly's The Great Irish Potato Famine

1. An ghorta mhór: a consequence of ambivalence?: Irish Democrat, January 2003 (review by Peter Berresford Ellis)
   

Colin Murphy & Lynne Adair's (eds) Untold Stories: Protestants in the Republic of Ireland, 1922-2002

1. Why being a Protestant matters: Irish Independent, November 12, 2002 (extract by Bruce Arnold)

Toby Harnden's Bandit Country

1. Republican Not Bandit Country: The Blanket, March 23, 2003 (by Anthony McIntyre)
   
2. Even account of the Northern issues: Sunday Business Post, December 23, 2000 (review by Daire O'Brien)
   

Tom Hayden's Irish on the Inside: In Search of the Soul of Irish America

1. 'Irish on the Inside': Waiting for O'Lefty: New York Times, February 23, 2002 (review by Andrew O'Hehir)
   
2. Green Thoughts: Washington Post, February 15, 2002 (review by Thomas Flanagan)
   
3. When Irish nationalism is concocted in California: The Independent, January 23, 2002(review by Marcus Tanner— link dead)
   
4. Homeward Bound: Los Angeles Times, January 6, 2002 (review by Frank McCourt) — link dead
   
5. A rebel and a dreamer: (from Irelandclick.com, review by Máirtín Ó Muilleoir)
   

Kerby Miller, Arnold Schrier, Bruce D. Boling, David N. Doyle's Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan: Letters and Memoirs from Colonial and Revolutionary America, 1675-1815

1. Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan: St. Louis Post Dispatch, December 21, 2003 (review by Steve Weinber)

Tom Dunne's Rebellions: Memoir, Memory and 1798

1. Rebel with a cause: Irish Independent, February 21, 2004 (review by Eoghan Harris)

Sean O'Neill & Guy Trelford's It Makes You Want to Spit: The Definitive Guide to Punk in Northern Ireland

1. It Makes You Want to Spit – An Alternative Ulster 1977-1982: RTE, January 20, 2004 (review by Harry Guerin)
2. Those Northern punks – they'd make you want to spit: Sunday Independent, December 7, 2003 (review by Declan Lynch)

William Brown's An Army with Banners: The Real Face of Orangeism

1. More inaccurate than most: (from Fortnight, November 2003, review by Brian Kennaway)
2. Accepting the guilt of Unionism: Irish Independent, November 15, 2003 (review by Finian Cunningham)
3. Authoritative account of orangeism: Irish Democrat, April 2004 (review by Ruan O'Donnell)

Sinéad McCoole's No Ordinary Women

1. A book about who we are, peopled by familiar faces: Irish Independent, November 15, 2003 (review by Justine McCarthy)

Marianne Elliot's Greatest Irish Americans of the 20th Century

1. Irish by name, American by nature: Sunday Business Post (review by Emmett O'Connell)
   

Brendan Anderson's Joe Cahill, A Life in the IRA

1. From IRA warrior to man of peace: Irish Democrat, March 2003
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2. Going Back To The Start: The Blanket (r