This Collins is not the film nice guy
{ "b" : "The Squad," , "cite" : "by T Ryle Dwyer, Mercier Press, €13."}
{ "b" : "The Squad," , "cite" : "by T Ryle Dwyer, Mercier Press, €13."}
As gardai try to control the activities of criminal gunmen in Dublin and shootings are reported almost daily, it may be a little easier now to imagine what the city was like in the violent period dealt with in Ryle Dwyer's latest work. But only just.
As a city centre schoolboy in the Dublin of the 1960s, I ...