Britishmen
Tom Paulin, 5 November 1981
Too Long a Sacrifice: Life and Death in Northern Ireland since 1969
by Jack Holland.
Columbus, 217 pp., £7.95, July 1981,0 396 07934 2 Show More
by Jack Holland.
Columbus, 217 pp., £7.95, July 1981,
A History of Northern Ireland
by Patrick Buckland.
Gill and Macmillan, 195 pp., £3.95, April 1981,0 7171 1069 9 Show More
by Patrick Buckland.
Gill and Macmillan, 195 pp., £3.95, April 1981,
“... of 1912, towards the ideals of the United Irishmen, the revolutionary organisation founded by Wolfe Tone and a group of Belfast radicals in 1791. Holland, however, is sceptical about the change that has taken place in Loyalist attitudes: some Loyalists, he says, have replaced ‘a sheep-like willingness to follow their middle-class leaders’ with ... ”