Paul Dixon.

Paul Dixon. Northern Ireland: The Politics of War and Peace. modern York: Palgrave. 2001. Pp xviii, 334 $6500 ISBN 0-333-72968-4

There is nothing like the smile of a newborn baby to bring on the outside the best in each of us. Unfortunately, this metaphor is not applicable to Dixon's volume The book begins with a derogatory cartoon cloak and ends with an unfulfilled promise for more information onward Northern Ireland politics to be "found in succession the author's web site" (p 307) pretty soon the web site contains and nothing else a duplicate picture of the book's cartoon shroud

Dixon attempts to

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