Mick Clifford: 2024’s political heavyweight hardbacks
Author Henry Hemming traces how Martin McGuinness, left, and Gerry Adams were seen as men who might move the provisional movement into politics.
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LIMITED OFFERAuthor Henry Hemming traces how Martin McGuinness, left, and Gerry Adams were seen as men who might move the provisional movement into politics. Picture: Brian Lawless
IT’S that time of year to look back on what happened, who was up, who was down and — for those with a weakness for the written word — what exactly you read in 2024.
This column has three books which merit a mention. One concerns the politics of today, another of yesterday, and the third reverses even further back into the mists of time for a delightful feat of the imagination.
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