Daniela’s Reviews > A Place Apart: Northern Ireland in the 1970s > Status Update

What ghetto hardliner, my critics ask, is going to sit down and read a version of history that will repeatedly diverge from the myths on which he or she has been nurtured?

She would never have believed, a few years ago, how little the British public know or care about unionist feelings. then she asked very sadly “has loyalty any meaning if nobody wants it?”

We are all so impressionable, and the media are on the whole so unanalytical, that even I – with all the foregoing facts stored away in my memory– had most of my disapproval focused on the IRA when I crossed the border. Yet the provisional IRA campaign is an effect, not an original cause, of the latest act in Northern Ireland 350-year-old tragedy.