BOOK LAUNCH: The Provisional IRA - From Insurrection to Parliament - Connolly Books, 10 August @ 5.30pm
Aug 2nd, 2011 by Conor McCabe
BOOK LAUNCH
The Provisional IRA - From Insurrection to Parliament:
by Tommy Mc Kearney
Published by: Pluto Press London
Wednesday 10th August
5-30 - 6-30pm
Connolly Books
43 East Essex St,
Temple Bar,
Dublin 2:
All welcome
Will it be as well researched and narrated a book as the best selling The Lost Revolution?
Will it tell us the inside story on Gerry, Blaney, John Kelly, Haughey, the Belgian businessman Luyckx, Maria Maguire and Daithi, even the wanderly missionary priest from East Africa?
When was the first bank robbery? When did the CIA infiltrate Noraid? Who contacted the renegade Capuchin priest? Whatever happened to the Littleton brothers. Whatever happened to two Irish detectives who turned over confidential info to MI5?
What southern businessmen supplied funds to encourage The Split?
So many other questions to be asked, so many missing files, so much loss of memory, so many colourful artifacts awaiting a lucky archaeological dig. When enough facts eventually come to light an Irish Leon Uris may then write the ultimate blockbuster novel. Too many dead people won’t get to read it, nor to see the megamovie version. Title: A lost revolution or something. With a cast of thousands.
Probably does what it says on the tin/cover. It is a fairly clear title Gabby. It doesnt say ‘the untold stories of the conflict in ireland’, which i agree might be a good read. The lost revolution is a great book but goin by the title it might not be comparing like with like.