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“We Wrecked the Place”: Contemplating an End to the Northern Irish Troubles, by Jonathan Stevenson (Free Press, 281 pp., $25)

“I WAS offered a sabbatical in any trouble-spot of my choosing,” a foreign journalist observed to me last year. “I thought about Bosnia and Rwanda, but in the end I opted for Northern Ireland.” I was less than astonished: when it comes to tribal warfare, for a quarter of a century Northern Ireland has offered the safest and most rewarding game in town.

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“We Wrecked the Place”: Contemplating an End to the Northern Irish Troubles, by Jonathan Stevenson (Free Press, 281 pp., $25)

“I WAS offered a sabbatical in any trouble-spot of my choosing,” a foreign journalist observed to me last year. “I thought about Bosnia and Rwanda, but in the end I opted for Northern Ireland.” I was less than astonished: when it comes to tribal warfare, for a quarter of a century Northern Ireland has offered the safest and most rewarding game in town.