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"The Lost Revolution: A History of the OIRA and Workers Party"

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Apparently, Brian Hanley and Scott Millar's book, "The Lost Revolution" on the history of the WP is being published tomorrow. Given there are hardly any
books on the WP, this should be interesting.
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Great subject. If he does it justice it will be a hit.
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should be an interesting read. looking forward to it.

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Borders has a page for the book here:

The Lost Revolution by Brian Hanley and Scott Millar (9781844881208) - Books at Borders

And it's in Penguin Ireland's Catalogue (PDF) :

http://www.penguincatalogue.co.uk/me...%20Ireland.pdf
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fascinating stuff.

i wonder if it will reveal any new historical nuggets - lets face it , getting a full OIRA/WP history is difficult to say the least, as many of the protagonists are still alive.
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Apparently, Brian Hanley and Scott Millar's book, "The Lost Revolution" on the history of the WP is being published tomorrow. Given there are hardly any
books on the WP, this should be interesting.
Nice taster here:
The story of the revolutionaries working inside RTE - Times Online

Gilly's gona be sweating a bit!
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I can't wait for the sequel ; "The Lost Revolution II: A History of the PIRA and PSF"
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It's on Amazon too

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lost-Revolution-Story-Official-Workers/dp/1844881202/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1251633010&sr=8-1
with some info about the authors:

"Brian Hanley is a lecturer in Irish history at the Queen's University, Belfast, and the author of A Guide to Irish Military Heritage and The IRA 1926–1936. Scott Millar is a journalist with the Irish Examiner."
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Nice taster here:
The story of the revolutionaries working inside RTE - Times Online

Gilly's gona be sweating a bit!
Nah - in these NAMA times, it might be to Gillys advantage to be tarred with a revolutionary brush.

Politics can be a funny thing - all to do with timing.
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i wonder if its going to cover the Flemish Waffen SS guy ,Staf van Vethoven, and his involvement with SFWP

fascinating letter here , written by the son of the late Michael O'Riordan ( Communist Party leader)

Memories of an Irish Waffen SS man - Features, Unsorted - Independent.ie
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