Robert Ballagh explains why he thinks Gerry Adams’ much publicised appeal to the IRA is of major significance: “what Gerry Adams and the leadership of Sinn Féin are attempting to do is to consign to history the oldest continuing political strategy on this island, namely, the physical force tradition. Nothing more, nothing less!”
Colin Neill’s first novel Turas peeks into a world in which many Ulster Protestants feel uncomfortable. It’s 2020 and the Irish unification that unionists and loyalists confidently predicted would never happen has become a reality. President Adams is ensconced in Phoenix Park. The newsreader reported that … a short ceremony at Stormont had confirmed the [...] read our review »
World by Storm has a nice piece up on the IRA’s role in helping MK, the armed wing of the ANC, in the 1980s. In particular he sees a strange alchemy at work there: …if one can think of a clearly legitimate contemporary struggle it was that against apartheid and it is to the credit [...] read our review »