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“... UDP. They have been joined by the barrister-turned-politician, Robert McCartney who, along with Conor CruiseO’Brien, founded the UKUP (that rogue ‘K’ is for ‘Kingdom’), to oppose further UUP sell-outs and the mayhem of a united Ireland. In last month’s Assembly elections there were also candidates who ...”

“... For the most part, it dealt gently, if at all, with topics such as race and Vietnam. When in 1963 Conor CruiseO’Brien published the first of his allegations that the journal had been ‘consistently designed to support the policy of the United States government’, subsequent versions of which were eventually to ...”

“... worse; the idea of a lost Catholic England gave him that on the scale of historical myth. As Conor CruiseO’Brien argued in a fine essay, Waugh was made for Jacobitism: the rightful king had always already taken to the hills.Yet if Protestantism was disastrous it was also oddly superficial since, as Waugh ...”

“... regenerated and then betrayed during the war, and is so reactionary a Catholic that an Irishman, Conor CruiseO’Brien, denounces him.Indeed, the whole of his oeuvre has been read as an attempt to bolster his self-confidence. His critics declare that he wanted to be sure that he really was in with the upper classes ...”

“... as in the early years of this century, shadowing Austrian manoeuvres – stirred uneasy memories. Conor CruiseO’Brien has expressed the alternative view most trenchantly. Commenting on the Yugoslav crisis, in which Bonn claimed to be moved only by the principle of national self-determination, ...”

“... beneficial association. For on the one side, there are limits to local supply – the efforts of Conor CruiseO’Brien, Paul Johnson or Norman Stone, however infallible, will only go so far; while on the other, the lights of the New Criterion or Public Interest shine brighter in the reputable British mirror than they ...”

“... all its rewritings – are weakened by the author’s insistence on maintaining an argument with Conor CruiseO’Brien’s article of 1965, ‘Passion and Cunning: An Essay on the Politics of W.B. Yeats’. Dr O’Brien was not the only commentator to have called Yeats a ...”

“... of American foreign policy. Most important is to imbue yourself with a siege mentality. Conor CruiseO’Brien has done his readers the service of connecting this not only with Israel but also with South Africa and Ireland. In all cases of this sort you must portray yourself as the persecuted bearer of a ...”

“... Some verdicts on the process so far still reflect that stability, which was also stagnation. Conor CruiseO’Brien’s Ancestral Voices: Religion and Nationalism in Ireland (1994) is a good example. In a Postscript he foresees disaster for peace because no real movement in Ireland is possible at all: ‘The peace ...”