Operation Demetrius and its aftermath: a new history of the use of internment without trial in Northern Ireland 1971–75

MARTIN J. McCLEERY Manchester University Press £70 ISBN 9780719096303 Reviewed by: Clifford Peeples WhenGeorge Santayana made his observation that ‘history is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten’, he could easily have been making it about the subject of Martin McCleery’s book. The populist thought on the introduction of internment is clear: ... Read more

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