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BS: Does anyone have any...

15 Feb 06 - 08:37 PM (#1669851)
Subject: BS: Does anyone have any...
From: Epona

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!

E


15 Feb 06 - 08:49 PM (#1669855)
Subject: RE: BS: Does anyone have any...
From: GUEST

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


15 Feb 06 - 08:51 PM (#1669857)
Subject: RE: BS: Does anyone have any...
From: Epona

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

E


15 Feb 06 - 09:20 PM (#1669867)
Subject: RE: BS: Does anyone have any...
From: Sorcha

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


15 Feb 06 - 09:27 PM (#1669870)
Subject: RE: BS: Does anyone have any...
From: Epona

No and no. Thanks!

E


15 Feb 06 - 10:08 PM (#1669889)
Subject: RE: BS: Does anyone have any...
From: Beer

Lion of Ireland by Morgan Llywelyn
Beer


15 Feb 06 - 10:08 PM (#1669890)
Subject: RE: BS: Does anyone have any...
From: GUEST

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


15 Feb 06 - 10:14 PM (#1669894)
Subject: RE: BS: Does anyone have any...
From: Beer

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


15 Feb 06 - 10:28 PM (#1669898)
Subject: RE: BS: Does anyone have any...
From: Beer

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.


16 Feb 06 - 10:52 AM (#1670034)
Subject: RE: BS: Does anyone have any...
From: Epona

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

E


16 Feb 06 - 11:02 AM (#1670041)
Subject: RE: BS: Does anyone have any...
From: mandotim

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


16 Feb 06 - 12:43 PM (#1670074)
Subject: RE: BS: Does anyone have any...
From: Amos

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.


A


16 Feb 06 - 04:23 PM (#1670185)
Subject: RE: BS: Does anyone have any...
From: Epona

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

E


16 Feb 06 - 04:27 PM (#1670189)
Subject: RE: BS: Does anyone have any...
From: TheBigPinkLad

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