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Sat 09 Sep 2010January, February, March, March, March
NORTHERN IRELAND: Blood and Thunder: Inside an Ulster Protestant Band, By Darach MacDonald, Mercer Press, 352pp, €14.99 ‘WALK A MILE in another man’s moccasins before you criticise him” is an old Native American maxim that the nationalist-rooted journalist Darach MacDonald has applied in his book Blood and Thunder.
The Clones man and veteran journalist, who lives in Co Tyrone, has walked scores of miles and spent many long days and nights throughout the loyalist parading calendar – which, as everyone should know, runs “January, February, March, March, March” – to acquire a unique insight into grassroots loyalist culture and motivations.
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