I've been waiting for the Mudcat to return precisely because I wanted to post a complimentary notice about "One Green Hill."

It was a pleasure to go to the launch and meet Big Tim and talk to him about the book and its construction. He is very modest about his accomplishment - he lives in Scotland and his research had to be done by driving furiously from one place to another while having "holidays" in Ireland. As it is, except for one place - the one he mentioned - his research has been exemplary. The book is also highly readable - much more so than anything I would have written; I would have been plumbing the historical depths. The one place where he made errors of fact - in the Dolly's Brae Story - the evidence is that there were far fewer Catholics killed than is usually said (but in much more disgraceful circumstances)and several Orangemen were wounded and one later died. Big Tim's error is only the one that everybody who has ever written about the incident has made; he, not being able (as I was) to go to original material) - was misled.

Well done John (Big Tim

JOhn Moulden