The Partition of Ireland and the Troubles: The History of Northern Ireland from the Irish Civil War to the Good Friday Agreement

Love this book.

Very understandable history

For a person who is developing an interest in the Northern Ireland's "troubles", this little book wheted my appetite. I will certainly read a more in depth review.

Acceptable

The book starts in the middle without explanation of events leading into the conflict and kind of jumps around. I found it to be very confusing. Plus a I don’t like how the author inserts his opinions into everything. The book should be non biased. Overall I don’t really like the style of writing the author does. Could have been a much better book. Not very well written in my opinion.

I bought this as a primer. I found it interesting but after looking at the bibliography, which is wholly unrelated to the content of the book, I question it’s accuracy. Will have to check with more reliable sources to check on its accuracy.

This book was sloppily produced and poorly edited. It inaccurately calls Michael Collins, arguably the seminal figure in the Anglo-Irish treaty, a "London-trained lawyer," when he was of limited education who left school at 16 to enter civil service as a financial clerk. There is no pagination in this book. The bibliography is entirely irrelevant, from another work: one will find references to books on Irish lichen, marine algae and geology (yes, believe it or not!). I assume they cut and pasted an incorrect biblio from another book. Books on history need to be accurate; this work was produced with little thought or care.

This book paints a horrible one sided picture. It's so pro catholic you can taste it. It get two stars because it is generally informative.The only way to try any harder to gain support for the ira than what this author wrote would be to kill a protestant in northern ireland.