Recommended reading for Gay Byrne
Perhaps I could add a suggestion to his list of Europhile authors. It is The Great Deception: Can the European Union survive?
Meticulously researched and footnoted by authors Christopher Booker and Richard North, and running to more than 600 pages, it exhaustively documents how the British government, in the form of Edward Heath, conspired with other EU leaders in his push to bring Britain into the then EEC.