Keith Middlemas on the history of Ireland
Keith Middlemas, 22 January 1981
Ireland: Land of Troubles
by Paul Johnson.
Eyre Methuen, 224 pp., £6.95, October 1980,0 413 47650 2 Show More
by Paul Johnson.
Eyre Methuen, 224 pp., £6.95, October 1980,
“... leaves the historian with a number of quibbles – in particular, the leading role assigned to Michael Collins in all the events of 1919-22. Yet on fundamental interpretation Kee is less dogmatic and, above all, less Anglo-centric; greener here, indeed, than in his previous book, The Green Flag. It is not simply that he adds an Irish dimension to the ... ”