My life in books: I haven’t yet read a defining novel about those terrible years in Ireland

The DCU professor gets his students to read Katy Tur’s 'Unbelievable' — her campaign memoir of covering Donald Trump’s election in 2016 — to help them understand American politics today

Kevin Rafter is full professor of political communication at Dublin City University

Kevin Rafter is an academic and writer.

His new book Fearless! Vincent Browne’s Magill and Ireland in the 1980s is published this month by New Island.