Historical EssaysNo one alive has waded through more collections of correspondence, legislation, administrative records, ecclesiastical and collegiate fasti, than Professor McDowell. His knowledge of the fine print of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is truly awesome He has one of the most judicious minds in the business, and his scholarship has the respect of the most rigorous practitioners. A. T. Q. Stewart This miscellany gathers together essays and papers

Broken Landscapes tells of his subsequent journeys

and finally

– Michael Longley

but his remote mission station remained undiscovered

and driven by a sparkling narrative style

is a valuable record of a unique Irishman and citizen of the world at the close of his days

This collection documents one man’s attitude to war and his difficult acceptance of peace

REPS (the Rural Environment Protection Scheme) and its impact

These places and people remained with O’Malley in his private writing

theatre director

but something rather more lewd elsewhere

He interviews former members of the IRA Army Council who claim that a five-man committee led by Adams had control of the hunger strike