Booklist 17:159 Ja ’21
“The story is long and the plot complicated but it is well told and the interest is sustained to the close.”
+ Boston Transcript p8 D 11 ’20 350w
“Although, as an artistic piece of work, the book leaves much to be desired, its vigour and sincerity save it from the category of the mediocre.” L. M. R.
+ − Freeman 2:406 Ja 5 ’21 160w
“It is one-sided and its heroes are not very attractive characters, but it is interesting and informing.”
+ − Ind 104:244 N 13 ’20 90w
“Mr O’Duffy is refreshingly free from didacticism. He allows the facts to explain for themselves, and does not make any indictment in the bitter, devastating manner of Brinsley McNamara’s ‘The clanking of chains.’ Regarded as a human document this book should be of great interest and assistance to readers in America who want to understand the Ireland which confronts them in alarming headlines.” E. A. Boyd
+ N Y Evening Post p3 O 30 ’20 1300w
“The animus of the book as a whole is unmistakable. Hate for England rather than love for Ireland is the mainspring of this active ‘patriotism.’” H. W. Boynton