A Secret History of the IRA
by Ed Moloney
Ed Moloney is a very serious writer and a very brave one. He was the political editor of The Irish Times and has profound insight into Irish history – both philosophical and military. This book is shocking on every level, and its subtext – the moral implications of the deliberate separation (vocally and verbally) within language that Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness used to say were the political wing and the violent wing of the IRA – was fascinating to me. And Moloney became very interested in the power of that – how language could be abused so magnificently.
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