Maurice Walsh
Articles by Maurice Walsh
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International Politics
Behind the Irish crisis
- 27 April 2011
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The new coalition government portrays the crushing defeat of Fianna Fail as a cathartic, revolutionary moment. But Ireland’s economic crisis has deeper historical roots.
Society
Last of the Irish rovers?
- 09 December 2010
Roger Casement made waves with his exposés of imperial abuses on the rubber plantations of Belgian Congo and South America. Less than five years later he was hanged in Pentonville for his part in the Easter Rising. Maurice Walsh on the life of a driven man.
World Affairs
An immodest proposal
- 05 January 2004
The Encyclopaedia of Ireland Edited by Brian Lalor Gill & Macmillan, 1,256pp, £50 ISBN 0717130002
World Affairs
Oil rolls back the former Soviet borders
- 15 September 2003
Control of Azerbaijan's vast oil resources has long been an American ambition. Now, after years of cajoling and arm-twisting, the $3bn Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline project is becoming a reality
Books
The meaning of treason. "To the end of his life, this love of an obsolete England persisted in him, to be rebuffed by contemporary England." Maurice Walsh on the making of a fascist - Lord Haw-Haw
- 02 June 2003
Lord Haw-Haw: the English voice of Nazi Germany Peter Martland The National Archives, 309pp, £19.99 ISBN 1903365171
OLD Media
The terrible beauty of fighting. Once, a kind of manly jauntiness was the proper attitude for a witness of war; now, compassion is required. Maurice Walsh wonders if either strikes the right note
- 28 April 2003
Depictions and Images of War in Edwardian Newspapers (1899-1914) Glenn R Wilkinson Palgrave, 185pp, £45 ISBN 0333717430 Jarhead: a marine's chronicle of the Gulf war Anthony Swofford Scribner, 260pp, £14.99 We Did Nothing: why the truth doesn't always come out when the UN goes in Linda Polman Viking Penguin, 234pp, £12.99
World Affairs
The game of war
- 24 March 2003
War Is A Force That Gives Us Meaning Chris Hedges Public Affairs, 212pp, £12.99 ISBN 1903985595
