Book reviews

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Hew Strachan, The Politics of the British Army. Clarendon Press, 1997; 311pp; 0198206704 (hb) £30 G.R. Sloan, The Geopolitics of Anglo‐Irish Relations in the Twentieth Century. Leicester University Press, 1997; 320pp; 0718513568 (hb) £45.00 Paul Bew, Henry Patterson and Paul Teague, Between War and Peace: The Political Future of Northern Ireland. Lawrence and Wishart, 1997: 231pp; 0853157715 (pb) £12.99 Niall O'Dochartaigh, From Civil Rights to Armalites: Deny and the Birth of the Irish Troubles. Cork University Press, 1997; 364pp; 1859181090 (pb) £15.95, 1859181082 (hb) £40.00 Alan O'Day (ed.), Political Violence in Northern Ireland: Conflict and Conflict Resolution. Praeger, 1997; 264pp; 0275954145 (hb) £47.95 Feargal Cochrane, Unionist Politics and the Politics of Unionism since the Anglo‐Irish Agreement Cork University Press, 1997; 426pp; 1859181392 (pb) £17.95, 1859181384 (hb) £40 C. Gilligan and J. Tonge (eds.), Peace or War? Understanding the Peace Process in Northern Ireland. Ashgate, 1997; 192pp; 1859725198 (hb) £35 Richard J. Finlay, A Partnership for Good? Scottish Politics and the Union since 1880. John Donald, 1997; 169pp; 0859764117 (pb) £14.95 Kieran Allen, Fianna Fáil and Irish Labour: 1926 to the Present Pluto Press, 1997; 221pp; 0745308651 (bb) £35.00. John Horgan, Sean Lemass: The Enigmatic Patriot Gill and Macmillan, 1997; 424pp; 07171 20291 (hb) £19.99 Joseph Morrison Skelly, Irish Diplomacy at the United Nations, 1945–65: National interests and the international order. Irish Academic Press, 1997; 314pp; 0716525747 (hb) £35 Brian Graham (ed.), In Search of Ireland: a cultural geography. Routledge, 1997; 240pp; 0415150086 (pb) £15.99 Michael Holmes and Denis Holmes (eds.), Ireland and India: Connections, Comparisons, Contrasts. Folens, 1997; 247pp; 0861219384 (pb) £14.99 Thomas Bartlett and Keith Jeffery (eds.) A Military History of Ireland. Cambridge University Press, 1997; 565pp; 0521629896 (pb) £17.95 Eoin Devereux, Devils and Angels, Television, Ideology and the Coverage of Poverty. University of Luton Press, 1998; 174pp; 1860205453 (pb) NPG Ruth‐Blandina M. Quinn, Public Policy and the Arts. Ashgate, 1998; 352pp; 184014 174 3 (hb) £42.50 Alan Shatter, Shatter's Family Law. Butterworths, 1997; 1097pp; 1854751247 (hb) £80.00. M. Walls and D. Bergin, The Law of Divorce in Ireland. Jordans Bristol, 1997; 313pp; 0853084084 (pb) £21.20 Dominic Murray, Alan Smith and Ursula Birthistle, Education in Ireland: A comparison of the education systems in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. Irish Peace Institute Research Centre, 1997; 124pp; 1874653429 (pb) £10 Matthew B. Cannon & Michael J Hennessy (eds.), Political and Economic Review. University of Limerick, 1997. 292pp; 1393–3221 (pb) NPG. Simon Boucher (ed), Social and Political Review, Vol. 7, 1998. Trinity College Dublin, 125 pp, (pb) NPG Shane O'Neill, Impartiality in Context: Grounding Justice in a Pluralist World. State University of New York, 1996; 288pp; 0791433889 (pb) £14.75 Michael Laver, Private Desires, Political Action: An Invitation to the Politics of Rational Choice. Sage, 1997; 163pp; 0761951156 (pb) £12.95. Playing Politics: The Nightmare Continues. Oxford University Press; 174pp; 019285321 (pb) £7.99 Christine Battersby, The Phenomenal Women: Feminist Metaphysics And The Patterns Of Identity. Polity Press, 1998; 208pp; 0745615546 (hb) £45. Richard English, Ernie O'Malley, IRA intellectual Oxford University Press, 1998; 267pp; 0198205953 (hb) £30 Fintan Lane, The Origins of Modern Irish Socialism: 1881–1896. Cork University Press, 1997; 263pp; 185918152X (pb) £16.95 Cees van der Eijk and Mark Franklin (eds), Choosing Europe? The European electorate and national politics in the face of Union. University of Michigan Press, 1996; 516pp; 0472103571 (hb) £39.50 Ben Tonra (ed.), Amsterdam: What the Treaty Means. Institute for European Affairs, 1998; 224pp; 1874109354 (pb) £15 Kevin Boyle and Juliet Sheen (eds), Freedom of Religion and Belief: A World Report Routledge, 1997; 475pp; 0415159776 (hb) f 50.00, 0415159784 (pb) £16.99 Yvonne Galligan, Women and Politics in Contemporary Ireland: From the Margins to the Mainstream. Pinter, 1998; 184pp; 1855674327 (hb) £45, 1855674335 (pb) £16.99