Fionnuala O'Connor

This is a very interesting and entertaining book and should appeal to anyone with an interest in the Northern Ireland Troubles and people's perceptions of it from within the Nationalist community. I know of no equivalent publication that interviewed fifty members of the Unionist community for their views across similar chapter headings. The fact that the publication date was 1993, one year before the first PIRA ceasefire, and before the 1998 GFA was signed make the views of the contributors all the more interesting given how events have evolved since. It would be interesting whether the author would consider a similar second publication to assess the views of the events which have occurred since the book was published. However, this would be hard to do. As it is this book stands out as a singular narrative reflective a cross-section of the views of the Nationalist community across a broad range of topics and is extremely revealing as a result.… (mehr)