Book review: Memoir offers self-appraisal in peace role

Denis Bradley's 'Peace Comes Dropping Slowly' excels in its vivid personal evocations of the Troubles

Now 78, Denis Bradley was born in Buncrana, Donegal, and studied for the priesthood in Rome. In 1970, he was appointed to Long Tower in Derry city, a parish that embodied the escalating violence and political bankruptcy of the era. File picture: Margaret McLaughlin 

• Peace Comes Dropping Slow: My Life in the Troubles 
• Denis Bradley 
• Merrion Press, €18.99