Books
Noraid: Solidly researched but strictly academic history of the group that bankrolled the IRA
Robert Collins’s narrative on the controversial Irish American organisation is flawlessly sourced, but lacks the human drama
Bono was one of many celebrities who angrily condemned the Irish Northern Aid Committee (popularly known as Noraid) for its role in Northern Ireland’s Troubles. On early U2 tours of the United States, he urged Irish-Americans not to provide any financial aid for “the revolution” back home.
“People were throwing money on the stage during the Bobby Sands hunger strike,” he recalled in 1984. “But what was that money for? Those dollars were arriving in ...
