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From: Epona
Date: 15 Feb 06 - 08:37 PM

suggestions for me on some books I should read? Looking for some fresh perspective on the Troubles in the north of Ireland and also looking for some really good books on the Palestinian/Israeli conflict. Figured that many of you here would be able to offer some very helpful suggestions! Thanks so much!

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From: GUEST
Date: 15 Feb 06 - 08:49 PM

http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/bibdbs/bibliography/

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From: Epona
Date: 15 Feb 06 - 08:51 PM

A very long bibliography indeed! Any of those that you've read that you would suggest?

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From: Sorcha
Date: 15 Feb 06 - 09:20 PM

Have you read Leon Uris' Trinity? or all 3 of the Thomas Flannagans?

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From: Epona
Date: 15 Feb 06 - 09:27 PM

No and no. Thanks!

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From: Beer
Date: 15 Feb 06 - 10:08 PM

Lion of Ireland by Morgan Llywelyn
Beer

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From: GUEST
Date: 15 Feb 06 - 10:08 PM

Trinity is a great read. It does for Ireland what Mila 18 did for the Warsaw Ghetto uprising.

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From: Beer
Date: 15 Feb 06 - 10:14 PM

Trinity.........One of my all time great reads.

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From: Beer
Date: 15 Feb 06 - 10:28 PM

Presently reading "The Princes of Ireland" by Edward Rutherfurd. A Dublin Saga. Very interesting but a bit to slow for me. Author of "Sarum" which was an excellent book.

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From: Epona
Date: 16 Feb 06 - 10:52 AM

I did read "The Princes of Ireland." Passed it on to my mom to read because I enjoyed it.

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From: mandotim
Date: 16 Feb 06 - 11:02 AM

Try 'The Faithful Tribe' by Ruth Dudley Edwards for an insight into Orangism in Northern Ireland. Anything by Robert Kee, Tim Pat Coogan or Conor Cruise O'Brien (as with everything in Northern Ireland, keep a critical eye open for inherent bias). To get any sort of perspective on NI, some history is important. Biogs of Collins, DeValera, Cromwell, Robert Emmett, Countess Markiewicz etc will help.
Tim from Bit on the Side

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From: Amos
Date: 16 Feb 06 - 12:43 PM

Uris also wrote two or three books framed in the early years of the establishment of the state of Israel, one of which became the renowned (at the time) film Exodus. His book by the same name is worth reading.


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Subject: RE: BS: Does anyone have any...
From: Epona
Date: 16 Feb 06 - 04:23 PM

Thanks guys...Borders is going to love me.

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From: TheBigPinkLad
Date: 16 Feb 06 - 04:27 PM

Be sure to try to balance Uris' work with something bent from the opposite direction.