CBR Bingo: History I’ve been doing a lot of Irish fiction and poetry over the past couple years, and informative as both of those can be about the past, sometimes you just need to read some history, too. So I have been picking my way through this fairly exhaustive history of the IRA from its early days in Ireland’s revolutionary decade up through the immediate post-Troubles era. And between everything else I was juggling, it took me a solid six months to finish this one, […]
“that mixture of the rational and the visceral that one commonly finds throughout human history”
Armed Struggle: The History of the IRA by Richard English
