Talk:The Marching Season

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Commentary by 99.228.20.66 removed[edit]

99.228.20.66 posted the following personal commentary within the article, which I removed as being unencyclopedic:

Unfortunately, Silva gets neither recent politics nor old history right. These days, spy novels get cred from reflecting both and then undermining 'received wisdom'. Since "The Marching Season" fails on both counts, it seems a little less interesting right from the beginning. The political faux-pas: the IRA is NOT the Provisional IRA - these are/were the Provos, militant radicals with a relationship to the IRA that needs chapters to explain. The historical faux-pas: when Cromwell came to Ireland, he came with LowLanders, not HighLanders. The Highlanders were/are Catholic, came from Ireland, and no friends of Cromwell. If Silva can't get simple facts straight, his stories become idle fantasies, no??

I have moved this material to the discussion page. 71.162.248.100 15:12, 10 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]