Conor Cruise O'Brien
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Conor Cruise O'Brien's many books include God Land: Reflections on Religion and Nationalism and The Long Affair: Thomas Jefferson and the French Revolution. His Memoir: My Life and Themes will be published in the US in May. (December 2000)
From the Review
June 15, 2000: 'The Darker Side' (letter)
December 16, 1999: Buried Lives
The Oxford History of the British Empire, Volume I: The Origins of Empire: British Overseas Enterprise to the Close of the Seventeenth Century by William Roger Louis editor-in-chief, edited by Nicholas Canny
The Oxford History of the British Empire, Volume II: The Eighteenth Century by William Roger Louis editor-in-chief, edited by P.J. Marshall
October 7, 1993: A New Ireland?
January 28, 1993: 'Burke's Livery' (letter)
December 5, 1991: Error Felix (letter)
August 15, 1991: Nationalists and Democrats
April 25, 1991: Paradise Lost
The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas by Isaiah Berlin, edited by Henry Hardy
November 22, 1990: Asad and Black September (letter)
July 19, 1990: A Tale of Two Nations
Ulster: Conflict and Consent by Tom Wilson
June 28, 1990: A Matter of Intent (letter)
June 14, 1990: Refighting the Revolution (letter)
February 15, 1990: The Decline and Fall of the French Revolution
A Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution edited by François Furet, by Mona Ozouf, translated by Arthur Goldhammer
October 26, 1989: The Vatican and Hitler (letter)
October 26, 1989: The Vatican and Hitler (letter)
April 27, 1989: A Lost Chance to Save the Jews?
December 22, 1988: The Election and the Future: A Symposium
November 24, 1988: Keeping Up with the Shaws
Bernard Shaw: Volume I, 1856–1898, The Search for Love by Michael Holroyd
February 4, 1988: Nobs and Snobs
Evelyn Waugh: The Early Years, 1903–1939 by Martin Stannard
October 9, 1986: Trop de Zèle
The Bloody Crossroads: Where Literature and Politics Meet by Norman Podhoretz
June 26, 1986: The Color Red (letter)
May 8, 1986: Blood on the Border
Nothing Happens in Carmincross by Benedict Kiely
April 24, 1986: Ireland: The Mirage of Peace
Bobby Sands and the Tragedy of Northern Ireland by John M. Feehan
October 10, 1985: The Liberal Pope
September 26, 1985: Virtue & Terror
April 11, 1985: Odd Man Out
Breaking with Moscow by Arkady N. Shevchenko
February 28, 1985: Wishful Thinking
The British Empire in the Middle East, 1945–1951: Arab Nationalism, The United States, and Postwar Imperialism by William Roger Louis
January 17, 1985: The Charms of Certitude
How Democracies Perish by Jean-François Revel, with the assistance of Branko Lazitch, translated by William Byron
June 14, 1984: Backing for Balfour (letter)
March 15, 1984: Israel in Embryo
The High Walls of Jerusalem: A History of the Balfour Declaration and the Birth of the British Mandate for Palestine by Ronald Sanders
November 10, 1983: For the Record (letter)
September 29, 1983: International Episodes
Present History by Theodore Draper
April 29, 1982: Ireland: The Shirt of Nessus
Irish Nationalism: A History of Its Roots and Ideology by Sean Cronin
November 5, 1981: How Long Can They Last?
Why South Africa Will Survive: A Historical Analysis by L.H. Gann, by Peter Duignan
South Africa: Time Running Out Africa. The Report of the Study Commission on US Policy Toward Southern
The Crisis in South Africa: Class Defense, Class Revolution by John S. Saul, by Stephen Gelb
July 16, 1981: Picture of Dorian Gray
The Backbench Diaries of Richard Crossman edited by Janet Morgan
October 25, 1979: Waiting for Revolution
Burger's Daughter by Nadine Gordimer
September 27, 1979: South Africa: An Ominous Lull
June 15, 1978: Martyr
Biko by Donald Woods
June 1, 1978: Greene's Castle
The Human Factor by Graham Greene
March 23, 1978: The Theater of Southern Africa
March 9, 1978: The End of White Rule?
November 24, 1977: 'Elusive Mr. P.'
Charles Stewart Parnell by F.S.L. Lyons
September 29, 1977: Two Edmund Burkes?
The Rage of Edmund Burke: Portrait of an Ambivalent Conservative by Isaac Kramnick
September 15, 1977: Anti-Barbarian
The Gentle Barbarian: The Life and Work of Turgenev by V.S. Pritchett
May 12, 1977: The Anti-Politics of Simone Weil
September 16, 1976: Reflections on Terrorism
On Revolt: Strategies of National Liberation by J. Bowyer Bell
Transnational Terror DC/Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford University by J. Bowyer Bell
Terrorists and Terrorism by Edward Hyams
Revolutionary Guerrilla Warfare edited by Sam C. Sarkesian
Vigilante Politics edited by H. Jon Rosenbaum, edited by Peter C. Sederberg
May 30, 1974: Who Began the Killing? (letter)
February 21, 1974: An Ulster Fable
World Without End, Amen by Jimmy Breslin
October 18, 1973: A Funny Sort of God
The Honorary Consul by Graham Greene
Collected Stories by Graham Greene
January 25, 1973: Ireland: Dying for Bones
The Green Flag: The Turbulent History of the Irish National Movement by Robert Kee
Towards a New Ireland by Garret FitzGerald
December 2, 1971: Violence in Ireland: An Exchange
September 23, 1971: Violence in Ireland: Another Algeria?
April 8, 1971: Irish Troubles: The Boys in the Back Room
November 5, 1970: The Gentle Nietzscheans
January 29, 1970: America First
November 6, 1969: Holy War
October 9, 1969: Camus, Algeria, and "The Fall"
June 19, 1969: The Committee to Defend the Conspiracy (letter)
June 19, 1969: The Technocratic Mind (letter)
May 22, 1969: Biafra Revisited
March 13, 1969: Only in South Africa (letter)
January 16, 1969: The Other State Department (letter)
November 21, 1968: Mission Impossible
The "Other" State Department: The United States Mission to the United Nations—Its Role in the Making of Foreign Policy by Arnold Beichman, with a Foreword by Leland M. Goodrich
November 7, 1968: Beware of Melancholy
Against the World: Attitudes of White South Africa by Douglas Brown
African Opposition in South Africa: The Failure of Passive Resistance by Edward Feit
The Separated People: A Look at Contemporary South Africa by E.J. Kahn Jr.
The Seeds of Disaster: A Guide to the Realities, Race Policies and World-wide Propaganda Campaigns of the Republic of South Africa by John Laurence
The Long View by Alan Paton, edited by Edward Callan
Rhodesia: Crisis of Color edited by Theodore Bull of the Central African Examiner, with an Introduction by Gwendolen M. Carter
June 20, 1968: Confessions of the Last American
The Armies of the Night: History As Novel; The Novel As History by Norman Mailer
May 9, 1968: Violence in Oakland (letter)
April 25, 1968: Satirical Pastoral
The Triumph: A Novel of Modern Diplomacy by John Kenneth Galbraith
March 28, 1968: How the UN Could End the War
March 14, 1968: Protest (letter)
March 14, 1968: Plight of Biafra (letter)
February 15, 1968: Bright Small Boy
The Blast of War 1939-45 by Harold Macmillan
Macmillan: A Study in Ambiguity by Anthony Sampson
December 21, 1967: A Condemned People
September 14, 1967: In Quest of Uncle Tom
Dublin: A Portrait by V.S. Pritchett, Photographs by Evelyn Hofer
Irish Journal by Heinrich Böll
June 29, 1967: Two-faced Cathleen
The Imagination of an Insurrection: Dublin, Easter 1916 A Study of an Ideological Movement by William Irwin Thompson
May 4, 1967: True Confession? (letter)
April 6, 1967: Hiss & Chambers (letter)
December 15, 1966: Churchill and Macmillan
Winston S. Churchill, Vol. I., Youth 1974-1900 by Randolph S. Churchill
Winds of Change by Harold Macmillan
July 28, 1966: The Congo (letter)
June 23, 1966: Changing the Guard
African Tightrope: My Two Years as Nkrumah's Chief of Staff by Major-General H.T. Alexander
March 3, 1966: Is He Is or Is He Ain't? (letter)
February 3, 1966: Dylan Thomas (letter)
December 9, 1965: The Dylan Cult
The Life of Dylan Thomas by Constantine FitzGibbon
Dylan Thomas and Poetic Dissociation by David Holbrook
May 20, 1965: A Long Engagement
Force of Circumstance by Simone de Beauvoir, translated by Richard Howard
March 11, 1965: A Curious Queen
Queen Victoria by Elizabeth Longford
January 28, 1965: Russian Grammar (letter)
November 19, 1964: The Perjured Saint
Cold Friday by Whittaker Chambers
August 20, 1964: The Schweitzer Legend
Verdict on Schweitzer: The Man behind the Legend of Lambarene by Gerald McKnight
Books by Conor Cruise O'Brien
Collection of Poems (2003)
The French Revolution: A Short History (2002)
Memoir: My Life and Themes (1998)
The Long Affair: Thomas Jefferson and the French Revolution (1996)
Ancestral Voices: Religion and Nationalism in Ireland (1994)
On The Eve of the Millennium (1994)
The Great Melody: a Thematic Biography and Commented
Anthology of Edmund Burke (1992)
God land: Reflections on Religion and Nationalism (1988)
Passion and Cunning and Other Essays (1988)
The Siege: the Saga of Israel and Zionism (1986)
Edmund Burke, Master of English (1981)
Neighbours: Four Lectures (1980)
Herod, Reflections on Political Violence (1978)
States of Ireland (1972)
The Suspecting Glance (1972)
Camus (1970)
The United Nations: Sacred Drama (1968)