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Wed 12 Dec 2008Cruiser redrew political map to embrace pluralism
OPINION:Conor Cruise O'Brien understood that Northern Protestants didn't have to choose between being Ulster and Irish - he knew we could be both, writes Michael McDowell.
THIRTY-SIX years ago, in TCD's Berkeley Library, this Northern Ireland Prod had an epiphany. I was thrillingly immersed in a new book, States of Ireland, by Conor Cruise O'Brien.
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