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Shane Ross
Goodbye God, Hello Google
The Revelation of Ireland: 1995–2020
By Diarmaid Ferriter
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Marc Mulholland
Pity the Poor Peasant
Land is All That Matters: The Struggle That Shaped Irish History
By Myles Dungan
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Malachi O’Doherty
Troubles No More
Belfast: The Story of a City and Its People
By Feargal Cochrane
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Malachi O’Doherty
Et in Ulster Ego
The Strangers’ House: Writing Northern Ireland
By Alexander Poots
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Richard Vinen
One Day in October
Killing Thatcher: The IRA, the Manhunt and the Long War on the Crown
By Rory Carroll
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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
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Mary Kenny
Blood in the Park
The Irish Assassins: Conspiracy, Revenge, and the Murders That Stunned an Empire
By Julie Kavanagh
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Andrew Gailey
Six Degrees of Separation
The Partition: Ireland Divided, 1885–1925
By Charles Townshend
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May 2019 Issue
Frank McLynn
Ruled by the Waves
On the Edge: Ireland’s Offshore Islands – A Modern History
By Diarmaid Ferriter
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March 2019 Issue
Marc Mulholland
Line of Troubles
The Border: The Legacy of a Century of Anglo-Irish Politics
By Diarmaid Ferriter
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January 1999 Issue
Ruth Dudley Edwards
A Great Story, but Only One Side Given
The Great Shame: A Story of the Irish in the Old World and the New
By Thomas Keneally
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March 2017 Issue
Damian Thompson
Holy Trail
The Catholics: The Church and Its People in Britain and Ireland, from the Reformation to the Present Day
By Roy Hattersley
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October 2016 Issue
Ian McBride
Dublin’s New Dawn
The Irish Enlightenment
By Michael Brown
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Mary Kenny
Of Myths & Martyrs
The Seven: The Lives and Legacies of the Founding Fathers of the Irish Republic
By Ruth Dudley Edwards
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February 2016 Issue
Andrew Roberts
Emerald Guile
Churchill and Ireland
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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
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August 2008 Issue
Toby Barnard
Brewing Troubles
God’s Executioner: Oliver Cromwell and the Conquest of Ireland
By Micheál O’Siochrú
LR
May 2008 Issue
Paul Bew
The Long Good Friday
Great Hatred, Little Room: Making Peace in Northern Ireland
By Jonathan Powell
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Kevin Myers
Troublemaker
Paisley: From Demagogue to Democrat?
By Ed Moloney
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Vernon Bogdanor
Lion, Harp & Unicorn
The Two Unions: Ireland, Scotland, and the Survival of the United Kingdom, 1707–2007
By Alvin Jackson
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