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Book Reviews by subject:
Ireland & 20th Century

April 2024 Issue

Malachi O’Doherty

Belfast Confidential

Four Shots in the Night: A True Story of Espionage, Murder and Justice in Northern Ireland

By Henry Hemming

Stakeknife’s Dirty War: The Inside Story of Scappaticci, the IRA’s Nutting Squad and the British Spooks Who Ran the War

By Richard O’Rawe

April 2023 Issue

Richard Vinen

One Day in October

Killing Thatcher: The IRA, the Manhunt and the Long War on the Crown

By Rory Carroll

September 2022 Issue

Marc Mulholland

From Ballymena to Boston

On Every Tide: The Making and Remaking of the Irish World

By Sean Connolly

March 2022 Issue

Andrew Gailey

Don’t Forget the Titians

Burning the Big House: The Story of the Irish Country House in a Time of War and Revolution, 1914–23

By Terence Dooley

December 2021 Issue

Hugh Haughton

Among the Turnips

The Letters of John McGahern

By Frank Shovlin (ed)

Andrew Gailey

Six Degrees of Separation

The Partition: Ireland Divided, 1885–1925

By Charles Townshend

December 1989 Issue

Joseph O'Neill

Hero Who Blew It

No Laughing Matter: The Life and Times of Flann O'Brien

By Anthony Cronin

March 2019 Issue

Simon Heffer

Death in the Car Park

The Man Who Was Saturday: The Extraordinary Life of Airey Neave

By Patrick Bishop

March 2019 Issue

Marc Mulholland

Line of Troubles

The Border: The Legacy of a Century of Anglo-Irish Politics

By Diarmaid Ferriter

December 2018 Issue

John Banville

Quite the Père

Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know: The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce

By Colm Tóibín

July 2018 Issue

David Wheatley

Yours Severely

The Collected Letters of Flann O’Brien

By Maebh Long (ed)

September 1998 Issue

Brenda Maddox

No One Saw Him Paint

Jack Yeats

By Bruce Arnold

August 1992 Issue

David Pascoe

On the Trail of Large Bottoms

James Joyce: The Years of Growth 1882–1915

By Peter Costello

John Sweeney

Damned Rebels

Rebel Hearts

By Kevin Toolis

February 2017 Issue

Piers Brendon

Portrait of Pum

Gayer-Anderson: The Life and Afterlife of the Irish Pasha

By Louise Foxcroft

December 1989 Issue

Florence O’Donoghue

Let the Fools Rage

Yeats the European

By A Norman Jeffares (ed)

Mary Kenny

Of Myths & Martyrs

The Seven: The Lives and Legacies of the Founding Fathers of the Irish Republic

By Ruth Dudley Edwards

September 1981 Issue

Edna Longley

Expressing Ireland

The Penguin Book of Irish Short Stories

By Benedict Kiely (ed)

Some Irish Loving

By Edna O’Brien (ed)

The Penguin Book of Irish Verse, Second edition

By Brenden Kennelly (ed)

February 2016 Issue

Andrew Roberts

Emerald Guile

Churchill and Ireland

By Paul Bew

June 2015 Issue

Paul Bew

Independence Days

A Nation and Not a Rabble: The Irish Revolution 1913–1923

By Diarmaid Ferriter

Bitter Freedom: Ireland in a Revolutionary World 1918–1923

By Maurice Walsh