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 Cr�ost�ir �g wrote:

 The Count wrote:

Just read 'Ten Men dead" and "The damned United" on holidays last week, both tremendous books 

Ten Men Dead is a fantastic book, v.topical at the moment because the families are once again battling with all the relevant sides over what actually happened, as they do nearly every year around the anniversaries. 

In general just read through the thread there, I have a stack of books from Uni, most of them are recent ones too, you wouldn't believe how interpretations change, largely because the state has backed off a bit aswell and aren't as protective of the memories of individuals (eg Pearse & 1916 in general). 

I have two good books 'northern protestants - an unsettled people' and 'the faithful tribe' (an insige into the Orange Order, Apprencite Boys, Royal Black from the perspective of a southern Catholic). Both books are fantastic insights into what is largely considered simply 'the other side', and helps to explain the logic and perceptions of unionist/unionism whether you agree with it or not. 

In terms of the emigration, I have two very good books here Wherever Green is Worn by Tim Pat Coogan which is a hefty look at the Irish Disapora in Britain and America, but the book I'd recommend to absolutely anybody is Choosing the Green by Brian Dooley, which outlines why so many 2nd and 3rd Generation Irish claim such strong affinity to the homeland having been born in Britain. 

If anybody would like a lend of any of these send me a PM. A lot of the other books I can't really send because I use them for Uni in most of modules for reference, but these ones are good general outlines and give good understandings to a lot of assumptions in Irish History.

Wherever Green is Worn by Tim Pat Coogan. Tim Pat Coogan is very good - used that book alot in my dissertation a few years back. 