Book review: Washing dirty linen reveals horrors at heart of the Troubles

Martin Doyle’s chilling chronicle of the North’s troubles, and the absolute banality of the evil that implosion unleashed, through his home parish of Tullylish in Co Down
Book review: Washing dirty linen reveals horrors at heart of the Troubles

Martin Doyle focuses on events in his home parish of Tullylish, Co Down, to emphasise the overall futility of violence in The Troubles.

Sat, 25 Nov, 2023 - 02:00
Jack Power

  • Dirty Linen: The Troubles In My Home Place 
  • Martin Doyle 
  • Merrion Press, hb €24.99 

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