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Review: A Bitter Harvest

Former Irish Ambassador Ray Bassett, pictured here with Seán Brown's widow Bridie, says the new book chronicles 'in great detail the long and winding road which has been forced on the Brown family in their quest for truth and justice'.
Former Irish Ambassador Ray Bassett, pictured here with Seán Brown's widow Bridie, says the new book chronicles 'in great detail the long and winding road which has been forced on the Brown family in their quest for truth and justice'.

Reviewed by Ray Bassett


The subject matter of this book, “A Bitter Harvest”, should be of major concern to us all. The murder of Seán Brown, a friend and neighbour of Nobel Prize winner Seamus Heaney. was carried out as a deep and dark operation. That an individual, who cultivated cross community links and described by follow club man, Laurence Diamond, as “a great human being”, should have been marked out for such an horrific fate, seems almost beyond comprehension.  Seán Brown represented decency and community which makes what happened to him all the more unfathomable...  




 
 
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