Turf War: The Clinton Administration and Northern Ireland.(Book review) From: Presidential Studies Quarterly | Date: December 1, 2007| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2007 Center for the Study of the Presidency. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Turf War: The Clinton Administration and Northern Ireland. By Timothy J. Lynch. London: Ashgate, 2004. 180 pp.

Anyone interested in Irish affairs would likely be acquainted with "turf" as Irish slang for "peat" (a piece of soil used as fuel). Webster's dictionary also describes the word "turf" as "territory considered by a teenage gang to be under its control." Thus, Timothy Lynch's Turf War clearly points toward its case study of the north of Ireland, while allegorically referring to the attempts by President Bill Clinton's White House (especially the National Security ...

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