G2: In Defence of Ireland: Irish Military Intelligence 1918-45

by Maurice Walsh

This title explores the history of Irish intelligence. It explains how Irish army intelligence began with the IRA's need for intelligence during the War of Independence, when Michael Collins was Director of Intelligence.

Genres: History

384 pages, Paperback

First published October 4, 2010

About the author

Maurice Walsh was born in Clonmel, Co. Tipperary in 1961 and worked for The Irish Times in Dublin and Belfast before becoming a foreign correspondent in Central America during the revolutionary upheavals of the 1980s. Later he reported for the BBC as a correspondent and documentary from Africa, Asia, Latin America, the United States and Europe. He has lived in Managua, Santiago and Mexico City. His essays, reviews and reportage have appeared in Granta, the London Review of Books, the Dublin Review, the New Statesman and many other newspapers and magazines.

He teaches holds a PhD from the University of London and teaches journalism at Brunel University. He was Knight Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan in 2001 and Alistair Horne Fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford in 2010/11.

---from website bio (see URL)

Reviews

[Odhran]

Borderline unreadable. There's probably a good deal of info in here, but it's buried under a dense trail of illogical unconnected verbiage and over-deference to sources.