Timely look at PLO's Irish link

Ireland and the Palestine Question, by Rory Miller, Irish Academic Press, €25.

September 11, 2001, was a historic day in more ways than one. It is the only occasion in recorded history when Yasser Arafat took orders from an Irishman.

The news of the attack on the United States came through as the PLO leader was in the back of a car driving through Ramallah, seated beside our very own minister for foreign ...