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      CROSSING

      THE LINE

      Martin Dillon worked as a BBC journalist for eighteen years,

      producing award-winning programmes for television and radio,

      and has won international acclaim for his unique, investigative

      books on the Ireland conflict. Conor Cruise O’Brien, the renowned

      historian and scholar, described him as ‘our Virgil to that inferno’.

      CROSSING

      THE LINE

      MY LIFE ON THE EDGE

      Martin Dillon

      First published in 2017 by

      Merrion Press

      10 George’s Street

      Newbridge

      Co. Kildare

      Ireland

       www.merrionpress.ie

      © 2017, Martin Dillon

      9781785371301 (Paper)

      9781785371318 (Kindle)

      9781785371325 (Epub)

      9781785371332 (PDF)

      British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

      An entry can be found on request

      Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

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      All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved

      alone, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or

      introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or

      by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or

      otherwise) without the prior written permission of both the

      copyright owner and the above publisher of this book.

      Interior design by www.jminfotechindia.com

      Typeset in Adobe Caslon Pro 11.5/15 pt

      Cover design by Fiachra McCarthy

      Cover back: Martin Dillon

      To my wife

      Violeta

      A stocking leaves a shapely leg.

      Over the head, it bends the nose.

      Eyes partially blinded,

      twitch in the gauze.

      The mouth sucks in nylon,

      ears pinned back, hearing impaired.

      A knot on the skull hides humanity.

      – Martin Dillon, ‘Non-Heads’

      Contents

       Foreword by Tom McGurk

       Prologue

       PART ONE

       1.Belfast – Early Family Roots

       2.Ancestral Eccentricities

       3.Gerard Dillon: The Making of an Artist

       4.George Campbell’s ‘Non-Heads’

       5.My Life in a Seminary

       6.Fathers and Sons

       7.Coming of Age

       Part Two

       8.The Troubles and Journalism Beckon

       9.Setting the Record Straight

       10.A Surreal, Violent Landscape

       11.Balaclavas, Breadcrumbs and Romper Rooms

       12.The BBC Years

       13.Irish Literary Giants and a Stray

       14.Challenging the BBC’s Ethics

       15.Genesis of the Peace Process: Hume v Adams

       16.Time to Talkback and Natural-Born Killers

       17.The Joker Club

       18.Agent Ascot: Paedophile, Terrorist and British Spy

       19.Murderous Choices: Getting Rid of ‘The Monkey’

       20.Counterterrorism’s Moral Ambiguity

       21.In the BBC’s Crosshairs

       22.Legacies of Home

       Epilogue

       Index

      Journalism is apparently the first draft of history so presumably the journalist’s memoir can be the second. If Martin Dillon’s remembrance here achieves equivalent significance to his original reportage, then this book should be of historical import.

      In the 1960s the half-century-old partition of Ireland into two states, one post-colonial, the other neo-colonial, began to sunder. Once more, and to the great chagrin of London and Dublin, the Irish problem had to be solved again.

      Northern Ireland was being ambushed by a series of forces past and present; the Vatican

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