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Owen Bennett-Jones: Gerry Adams, 16 November 2017
Gerry Adams: An Unauthorised Life
by Malachi O’Doherty.
Faber, 356 pp., £14.99, September 2017,978 0 571 31595 6 Show More
by Malachi O’Doherty.
Faber, 356 pp., £14.99, September 2017,
“... Historians of Northern Ireland have plenty of material to work with. A book called Lost Lives (2001) records the lives and deaths of each of the 3720 people who were killed during the Troubles. Fighters, activists, officials and politicians on all sides have spoken to the media and written books themselves. Public inquiries have published hundreds of pages of hitherto secret evidence ... ”