Up the IRB, Down the Amazon
Seaghán Ó MurchúHaving just visited
Amazon.com only to find that my newly posted review there of Ed Moloney's A
Secret History of the IRA had been censored, I mused again about (speaking
of superlatives) David and Goliath, or The Blanket vs. the Corporate Giant.
And my love/hate relationship with what Amazon.com allows us "little people"
to accomplish as we enter into the marketplace of ideas. Francis Bacon (not
the artist but the one way back when) at capitalism's dawn would have
approved; here all works have a chance to catch your virtual and real
eye-not as seen but as searched. I only wish that Amazon.com would have been
magnanimous enough to leave in my submitted suggestion, in my original
reaction to Moloney's work, to visit The Blanket's cache of reviews on his
book, often by real-live Irish and English readers who knew firsthand what
Moloney's book conveyed. [The Blanket: Up the IRB, Down the
Amazon]
Comments: Google It! 4:34:33 PM 
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