Maurice Walsh

Articles by Maurice Walsh

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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

Portrait of an age

  • 10 March 2003

What I Saw: reports from Berlin 1920-33 Joseph Roth (translated by Michael Hofmann) Granta, 227pp, £14.99 ISBN 1862075786

What if Ireland was still British? A bloody civil war was fought for the freedom of Ireland. But today the country is little more than an outpost of Britain and the US. So was the struggle worth it? By Maurice Walsh

  • 27 January 2003

The Irish War of Independence Michael Hopkinson Gill & Macmillan, 274pp, £20 ISBN 071713010X Ireland Since 1939 Henry Patterson Oxford University Press, 406pp, £9.99 The Irish Revolution (1913-23) Edited by Joost Augusteijn Palgrave, 248pp, £15.99

The ghost in the machine

  • 16 September 2002

Keane: the autobiography Roy Keane (with Eamon Dunphy) Michael Joseph, 294pp, £17.99 ISBN 0718145542

The grand illusion

  • 03 June 2002

Pinochet in Piccadilly: Britain and Chile's hidden history Andy Beckett Faber and Faber, 280pp, £15.99 ISBN 0571202411

Holocaust hoaxer

  • 20 May 2002

A Life in Pieces Blake Eskin Aurum Press, 245pp, £16.99 ISBN 1854107623

Fidel Castro

The last revolutionary

The last revolutionary

Steve Richards

On Tory policy

Our future in their hands

Science

Religion and Darwin

Since the dawn  of time

James Macintyre

Miliband's dilemma

Brussels is back with a vengeance

Will Self

On Oscar Wilde

Where the Wilde things are

Film review

Bright Star

Bright Star (PG)

Books

Paul Auster

Invisible

Interview

Alain de Botton

The Books Interview: Alain de Botton

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