With a Titter of Wit
Colin Kidd: Wholly Ulsterised, 6 May 2021
Deniable Contact: Back-Channel Negotiation in Northern Ireland
by Niall Ó Dochartaigh.
Oxford, 306 pp., £75, March,978 0 19 289476 2 Show More
by Niall Ó Dochartaigh.
Oxford, 306 pp., £75, March,
“... state for Northern Ireland, Willie Whitelaw, in the grand Cheyne Walk home of his junior minister, Paul Channon. Unsurprisingly, it did not go well, and not just because of ideological differences, or the class gulf between toffs and scruffs. For a start, the hardline Mac Stiofáin had excluded from his team the flexible and imaginative Ó Brádaigh, the ... ”