The American Connection, by Jack Holland (Viking, 272 pp., $19.95)
Jack Holland, a journalist/novelist, has put together a series of lengthy articles about various aspects of the Irish-American dimension to the Northern Ireland situation. A Belfast native, he knows the problem too well to repeat the romantic simplicities about British “occupation” held by many Irish-American activists, whom he labels “arcadian dreamers” of an Ireland of the past. On the other hand, he is shrewd enough to satisfy that portion of his audience with a near epic description of the gun-runners and titillating accounts of courtroom theatrics and protests at royal visits.
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