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Book Review: Dark humour and incisive analysis elevate Denis Bradley’s Northern Ireland peace memoir
The former priest’s book, Peace Comes Dropping Slowly, is a humane, unpretentious affair
Denis Bradley has spent his life wrestling with the moral dilemmas involved in bringing peace to Northern Ireland. This typically humane, unpretentious memoir includes an imaginary dialogue he once wrote between a Provisional IRA leader and a Catholic priest over the execution of a young boy. One character is partly based on Martin McGuinness, the other is clearly a self-portrait.
“How do you live with yourself, being part of an organisation that shoots its own ...
