Taut thriller looking back at life during wartime

Echobeat

**By** Joe Joyce

**Liberties Press,** €15

**Reviewed by** Dermot Bolger

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Few periods in Irish life are more fascinating for someone who likes historical fiction than Ireland during World War II.

As a state, we were neutral, but neutrality is not a static condition. Frank Aiken’s heavy-handed censorship tried to block all news of the war. Petrol was so strictly rationed that cars became an oddity on the roads. Looking back, there ...