An intelligent, readable and fascinating reflection on left republicanism in Ireland --Richard English, Professor of Politics, Queens University Belfast, author of Armed Struggle and Irish Freedom. Full of information and analysis yet extremely easy to read, Eoin O Broin poses the question that has occupied the minds of many down through decades of struggle not just how best to establish the 'republic' but what that republic will look like? --Dr Laurence McKeown, writer, playright and former IRA political prisoner

An intelligent, readable and very fascinating reflection on left republicanism in Ireland. -- Richard English, Professor of Politics, Queens University Belfast, author of Armed Struggle and Irish Freedom