Volume 50, Number 3 · February 27, 2003
The Taming of a Terrorist
By Fintan O'Toole
A Secret History of the IRA
by Ed Moloney
Norton, 600 pp., $28.95
Even in Ireland, where popular culture used to be skeptical and irreverent, there are now magazines devoted to the worship of celebrities. The best-selling native equivalent of People in the US or Hello in Europe is called VIP. Its issue for September 2002 had the usual mix on the cover: a TV anchorman, the model who advertises the Wonderbra, a member of the old Anglo-Irish aristocracy. The main picture, however, was devoted to a smiling man in a short-sleeved, open-necked shirt, with a neatly trimmed beard and a well-groomed sweep of gray hair adding distinction to his temples. The blurb was 'Gerry Adams the charismatic leader reveals the man that few people know.'
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