THE AMERICAN CONNECTION
U.S. Guns, Money, and
Influence in Northern Ireland
Jack Holland
Belfast-born author, journalist and Irish Echo columnist and analyst Jack Holland believes that the Troubles in Northern Ireland cannot be truly understood without taking into account the influence of Irish America. This 300-page paperback details this American connection, with particular focus on U.S. involvement in Northern Ireland since the 1960s. Holland examines the flow of money and illegal munitions to the IRA and dissects the often ill-informed media reporting on Northern Ireland. Finally, he examines the U.S. role in the current peace process as well as the rapid pace of developments in Northern Ireland during the Clinton presidency. Roberts Rinehard, 300pp. $14.95.
ARE WE FORGETTING
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SOMETHING?
Our Saociety in the
New Millennium
Edited by Harry Bohan
and Gerard Kennedy
Has the Celtic Tiger economy changed Ireland? Is the traditional Irish sense of community now dead? According to Fr. Harry Bohan, a co-editor of this paperback, it is becoming increasingly obvious that Irish society, as distinct from the economy, is beginning to pay a high and unacceptable price for material prosperity. The collection of papers in this provocative book, from publishers Veritas, include a variety of contributions, including President Mary McAleese, economist David McWilliams; the director of Mountjoy Prison John Lonergan, Professor Joe Lee and journalist Tom McGurk. Price £8.99. Available in the U.S. from Irish Books and Media, 1433 Franklin Avenue East, Minneapolis, MN 554042135 or email irishbook@aol.com. 167pp. £8.99.
THE DEPOSITION OF
FATHER McGREEVY
Brian O’Doherty
This novel, set in 1939 in Kerry, tracks the decline and fall of a village isolated during two punishing winters and beset by troubling transgressions and violence. The novel features a London magazine editor who meets a relative from home in a London pub in the 1950s and becomes intrigued by a strange story about a "dead village" in Kerry. The editor hears of mysterious deaths of most of the women in the village and of a trial that shamed the town. However, on trying to investigate this in Kerry, he meets a wall of silence. McGreevy is the village priest who tried to keep his community alive. O’Doherty, a Kerryman himself by birth and a doctor by training, came to New York in the early 1960s. This is his second novel. Published by Turtle Point Press, Books & Co., Helen Marx Books. 404pp. $25.