All Changed: Fifty Years of Photographing Ireland
by Colman Doyle

The past fifty years have been a time of immense change in Ireland, as the country has moved from a traditional to a modern society. The introduction of electricity, the 'quiet revolution', was accompanied by changes in attitudes to Church, sex, relationships, property, emigration - to life in general. In that short time people have absorbed massive change, often enthusiastically, though perhaps with the occasional pang of regret for the 'old ways'. Here we see the faces, the landscapes and the life of that recently disappeared Ireland - Jack Lynch, JFK, Grace Kelly, Dev, de Gaulle, the Troubles, folk traditions - alongside the new faces and the new styles of our modern society. Amazon Review

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History books have neglected one of the most stirring and touching chapters of World War II - the huge American presence in Northern Ireland and the key role the North played in winning the war. The facts exist in military archives, but Home Away From Home tells the story as a kind of joint memoir, of the GIs and the people who made them welcome.
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Irish Confederates: The Civil War’s Forgotten Soldiers
by Philip Thomas Tucker

This is a long overdue pen-picture of those from the Irish diaspora who found themselves, as always, involved (by choice) in other people's wars. Tucker does a good job and I look forward to reading his "God Help the Irish". I have heard it said of that expression (God help the Irish), that if He doesn't, we help ourselves anyway - and thank Him afterward!. Amazon review.
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