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Living with Ghosts: The Inside Story from a 'Troubles' Mind

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Thoughtful and melancholy … If this book helps to exorcise at least some of their demons, it will certainly have served a valuable purpose.

He goes deep into his contacts with the IRA, the loyalist organisations, MI5, Special Branch, the Army and the many other players in the conflict period, and he joins the dots on a journey out of 'war' that has not yet found peace of mind. Rowan, a former longstanding BBC Northern Ireland security correspondent, was ever-present on TV screens during the final bloody years of the Troubles, then through tortuous years of wrangling over decommissioning. Living With Ghosts is a memoir of Brian Rowan's journalistic encounters during the Troubles and an analysis of their meaning at many years’ remove. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. In Living With Ghosts renowned veteran journalist Brian Rowan retraces his steps through Northern Ireland’s conflict years, as he bravely delves into the darkness of those times.Brian talks of personal experiences during the troubles not just his own but how others were affected. Brian Rowan’s intense new book, Living with Ghosts, might be said to be in disagreement with the title of the earlier work.

Blood and Oil is the explosive untold story of how Mohammed bin Salman and his entourage grabbed power in the Middle East and acquired a network of Western allies - including well-known US bankers, Hollywood figures, and politicians - all eager to help the charming and crafty crown prince.Brian argues that we cannot create a seamless narrative of the past, a full and agreed account of the past is not achievable, but, as he argues in the chapter on amnesty, there is a way out of it, albeit messy and never complete. The depiction tells little of the real story of the events and concentrates on his personal feelings and psyche, which frankly, are his own business.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. The minuscule geography of Northern Ireland is also ever present, the pressure of moving around Belfast – by any measure not a big city – surrounded in the 1980s and 1990s not just by looming hills, but army watchtowers and helicopters. There is no doubt that, in many ways, this is a written form of PTSD, but I suspect Barney recognises that this, and the circumstances that produced it are not, and should not be accepted as normal, even though he might wonder what life would be like without these ghosts. Living with Ghosts is a moving and deeply personal account of one man's doubts and decisions, and the challenges of reporting a war on his doorstep.You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. In November 2017 the people of Zimbabwe took to the streets in an unprecedented alliance with the military. The sense from reading Rowan’s memoir of reporting on the conflict, its resolution and aftermath is that it might never make sense. His story takes us beyond the often-strict boundaries of the news into the dilemmas, arguments and fears behind its scenes.

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