Maurice Walsh

Articles by Maurice Walsh

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To End All Wars: How the First World War Divided Britain

  • 04 July 2011

Behind the Irish crisis

  • 27 April 2011
  • 19 comments

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.

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.

What If Latin America Ruled the World?

  • 26 July 2010
  • 2 comments

The Woman Who Shot Mussolini

  • 17 May 2010

An immodest proposal

  • 05 January 2004

The Encyclopaedia of Ireland Edited by Brian Lalor Gill & Macmillan, 1,256pp, £50 ISBN 0717130002

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

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

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

The game of war

  • 24 March 2003

War Is A Force That Gives Us Meaning Chris Hedges Public Affairs, 212pp, £12.99 ISBN 1903985595

The interview

Preview: Ken Livingstone: “The world is run by monsters”

The interview

Preview: Boris Johnson: “I’ll tell you what makes me angry – lefty crap”

On Syria

Intervention in Syria won’t work, so how do we stop Assad?

GOP race so far

Infographic: Republican primary race 2012

Mind your B-sides

Mind your B-sides

Time to rethink

Time to rethink, not reassure

Who minds?

Latter Day Taint?

Alistair Darling

Alistair Darling, the Miliband dilemma and what the party must do next
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