Growing up where I did, this book was always a source of fascination in my household. My copy originally belonged to my father, and then passed to my eager hands when I was 15 years old -- before, I'd had to read sneaky passages of it whenever I was in my parents' room for some rare, legitimate reason. At 15 years old I was finally deemed old enough and mature enough to be able to read the book with its context and not just the "up the 'RA" kind of attitude that I had been exposed to in school, and since I came into possession of this book I must have read it maybe 10-12 times. My copy is damn near falling apart. Still, it's just as fascinating to read now as it was the first time. Walsh and Oisín McConville outside the new secondary school in Crossmaglen. Photograph: Stephen Davison But I will always say this: a lot of the people I met in south Armagh, to this day, I’m still very friendly with.”

The still heavily fortified police station in Crossmaglen, south Armagh. Photograph: Stephen DavisonA lot of my stuff would be around the culture and heritage of this whole area. Places likes Creggan (a village beside Crossmaglen where the ‘lost’ O’Neill clan vault was accidentally discovered in a graveyard in 1973) are unique.” All of Andrew's books draw strongly on these themes. They feature Joe Johnson, an ex-CIA officer and former U.S. Nazi hunter with the Office of Special Investigations, part of the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. There’s no way in 1986 you could have foreseen where we are now because it was helicopters, it was the army, it was horrible, people were getting killed.

We just sort of got on with things because if you’re living under that sort of oppression, and it was oppression, it’s something that you carry with you. They treated us with disdain,” says Mc Conville, standing in the middle of Crossmaglen Rangers’ pitch.

Ocr tesseract 4.1.1 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_module_version 0.0.5 Ocr_parameters -l eng Openlibrary OL9838546M Openlibrary_edition South Armagh, for those not in the know, is a rural location which saw a decades long battle between the PIRA and the British Army who, depending on your point of view, were either invaders continuing an imperialist agenda or people simple defending their fellow countrymen. I think that did change things, it changed perceptions. But I do think it’s almost come full circle again in that obviously because of some of the headlines we’re still getting, that people think that we’re outlaws here. Whereas that’s not the case.” Andrew studied history at Loughborough University and worked for many years as a business and financial journalist before becoming a corporate and financial communications adviser with several large energy companies. The great brotherhood the Nation of England has with the Greatest nation, the United States of America.