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)
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‘The Darker Side’
June 15, 2000
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Buried Lives
December 16, 1999
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
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A New Ireland?
October 7, 1993
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‘Burke’s Livery’
January 28, 1993
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Error Felix
December 5, 1991
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Nationalists and Democrats
August 15, 1991
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Paradise Lost
April 25, 1991
The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas
by Isaiah Berlin, edited by Henry Hardy
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Asad and Black September
November 22, 1990
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A Tale of Two Nations
July 19, 1990
Ulster: Conflict and Consent by Tom Wilson
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A Matter of Intent
June 28, 1990
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Refighting the Revolution
June 14, 1990
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The Decline and Fall of the French Revolution
February 15, 1990
A Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution edited by François Furet, by Mona Ozouf, translated by Arthur Goldhammer
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The Vatican and Hitler
October 26, 1989
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The Vatican and Hitler
October 26, 1989
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A Lost Chance to Save the Jews?
April 27, 1989
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The Election and the Future: A Symposium
December 22, 1988
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Keeping Up with the Shaws
November 24, 1988
Bernard Shaw: Volume I, 18561898, The Search for Love by Michael Holroyd
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Nobs and Snobs
February 4, 1988
Evelyn Waugh: The Early Years, 19031939 by Martin Stannard
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Trop de Zèle
October 9, 1986
The Bloody Crossroads: Where Literature and Politics Meet by Norman Podhoretz
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The Color Red
June 26, 1986
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Blood on the Border
May 8, 1986
Nothing Happens in Carmincross by Benedict Kiely
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Ireland: The Mirage of Peace
April 24, 1986
Bobby Sands and the Tragedy of Northern Ireland by John M. Feehan
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The Liberal Pope
October 10, 1985
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Virtue & Terror
September 26, 1985
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Odd Man Out
April 11, 1985
Breaking with Moscow by Arkady N. Shevchenko
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Wishful Thinking
February 28, 1985
The British Empire in the Middle East, 19451951: Arab Nationalism, The United States, and Postwar Imperialism by William Roger Louis
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The Charms of Certitude
January 17, 1985
How Democracies Perish by Jean-François Revel, with the assistance of Branko Lazitch, translated by William Byron
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Backing for Balfour
June 14, 1984
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Israel in Embryo
March 15, 1984
The High Walls of Jerusalem: A History of the Balfour Declaration and the Birth of the British Mandate for Palestine by Ronald Sanders
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For the Record
November 10, 1983
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International Episodes
September 29, 1983
Present History by Theodore Draper
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Ireland: The Shirt of Nessus
April 29, 1982
Irish Nationalism: A History of Its Roots and Ideology by Sean Cronin
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How Long Can They Last?
November 5, 1981
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
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Picture of Dorian Gray
July 16, 1981
The Backbench Diaries of Richard Crossman edited by Janet Morgan
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Waiting for Revolution
October 25, 1979
Burger’s Daughter
by Nadine Gordimer
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South Africa: An Ominous Lull
September 27, 1979
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Martyr
June 15, 1978
Biko by Donald Woods
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Greene’s Castle
June 1, 1978
The Human Factor by Graham Greene
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The Theater of Southern Africa
March 23, 1978
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The End of White Rule?
March 9, 1978
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‘Elusive Mr. P.’
November 24, 1977
Charles Stewart Parnell by F.S.L. Lyons
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Two Edmund Burkes?
September 29, 1977
The Rage of Edmund Burke: Portrait of an Ambivalent Conservative by Isaac Kramnick
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Anti-Barbarian
September 15, 1977
The Gentle Barbarian: The Life and Work of Turgenev by V.S. Pritchett
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The Anti-Politics of Simone Weil
May 12, 1977
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Reflections on Terrorism
September 16, 1976
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
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Who Began the Killing?
May 30, 1974
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An Ulster Fable
February 21, 1974
World Without End, Amen by Jimmy Breslin
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A Funny Sort of God
October 18, 1973
The Honorary Consul by Graham Greene
Collected Stories by Graham Greene
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Ireland: Dying for Bones
January 25, 1973
The Green Flag: The Turbulent History of the Irish National Movement by Robert Kee
Towards a New Ireland by Garret FitzGerald
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Violence in Ireland: An Exchange
December 2, 1971
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Violence in Ireland: Another Algeria?
September 23, 1971
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Irish Troubles: The Boys in the Back Room
April 8, 1971
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The Gentle Nietzscheans
November 5, 1970
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America First
January 29, 1970
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Holy War
November 6, 1969
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Camus, Algeria, and “The Fall”
October 9, 1969
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The Committee to Defend the Conspiracy
June 19, 1969
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The Technocratic Mind
June 19, 1969
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Biafra Revisited
May 22, 1969
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Only in South Africa
March 13, 1969
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The Other State Department
January 16, 1969
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Mission Impossible
November 21, 1968
The “Other” State Department: The United States Mission to the United NationsIts Role in the Making of Foreign Policy by Arnold Beichman, with a Foreword by Leland M. Goodrich
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Beware of Melancholy
November 7, 1968
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
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Confessions of the Last American
June 20, 1968
The Armies of the Night: History As Novel; The Novel As History by Norman Mailer
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Violence in Oakland
May 9, 1968
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Satirical Pastoral
April 25, 1968
The Triumph: A Novel of Modern Diplomacy by John Kenneth Galbraith
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How the UN Could End the War
March 28, 1968
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Protest
March 14, 1968
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Plight of Biafra
March 14, 1968
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Bright Small Boy
February 15, 1968
The Blast of War 1939-45 by Harold Macmillan
Macmillan: A Study in Ambiguity by Anthony Sampson
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A Condemned People
December 21, 1967
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In Quest of Uncle Tom
September 14, 1967
Dublin: A Portrait by V.S. Pritchett, Photographs by Evelyn Hofer
Irish Journal by Heinrich Böll
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Two-faced Cathleen
June 29, 1967
The Imagination of an Insurrection: Dublin, Easter 1916 A Study of an Ideological Movement by William Irwin Thompson
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True Confession?
May 4, 1967
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Hiss & Chambers
April 6, 1967
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Churchill and Macmillan
December 15, 1966
Winston S. Churchill, Vol. I., Youth 1974-1900 by Randolph S. Churchill
Winds of Change by Harold Macmillan
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The Congo
July 28, 1966
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Changing the Guard
June 23, 1966
African Tightrope: My Two Years as Nkrumah’s Chief of Staff by Major-General H.T. Alexander
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Is He Is or Is He Ain’t?
March 3, 1966
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Dylan Thomas
February 3, 1966
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The Dylan Cult
December 9, 1965
The Life of Dylan Thomas by Constantine FitzGibbon
Dylan Thomas and Poetic Dissociation by David Holbrook
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A Long Engagement
May 20, 1965
Force of Circumstance by Simone de Beauvoir, translated by Richard Howard
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A Curious Queen
March 11, 1965
Queen Victoria
by Elizabeth Longford
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Russian Grammar
January 28, 1965
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The Perjured Saint
November 19, 1964
Cold Friday
by Whittaker Chambers
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The Schweitzer Legend
August 20, 1964
Verdict on Schweitzer: The Man behind the Legend of Lambarene by Gerald McKnight