'Simply outstanding ... Between Two Hells takes us closer to the messy truth behind independent Ireland's birth pangs than ever before'
- Andrew Lynch, Irish Independent
'Original and arresting'
- Henry Patterson, Sunday Times Ireland
'Meticulously researched, judiciously balanced and unflinching ... breaks new ground'
- Dermot Bolger, Sunday Business Post
'Excellent ... Diarmaid Ferriter, Ireland's best-known and most prolific historian ... enriches lucid and judicious accounts of events and personalities with fresh archival evidence'
- Cormac O Grada, BBC History Magazine
'Fascinating ... absorbing'
- Eunan O'Halpin, Irish Times