Simply outstanding ... Between Two Hells takes us closer to the messy truth behind independent Ireland's birth pangs than ever before -- Andrew Lynch * Irish Independent *
Original and arresting -- Henry Patterson * Sunday Times Ireland *
Meticulously researched, judiciously balanced and unflinching ... breaks new ground -- Dermot Bolger * Sunday Business Post *
Excellent ... Diarmaid Ferriter, Ireland's best-known and most prolific historian ... enriches lucid and judicious accounts of events and personalities with fresh archival evidence -- Cormac O Grada * BBC History Magazine *
Fascinating ... absorbing -- Eunan O'Halpin * Irish Times *
Praise for A Nation and Not a Rabble: 'Very illuminating detail...simply setting violent events in context is a step forward. Thoughtful, balanced, even handed * Irish Times *
Ferriter's book is of such comprehensive and original scope...immensely readable and impressive * Sunday Business Post *
...The mighty mind this book comes from... rightly renowned for his voracious learning * Sunday Times *
Tugs at the tapestry of myths surrounding the independence struggle and the civil war that followed...A tremendous feat of documentation * The Independent *