not being exterminated when Britain declared war. The Jewish question does not figure in the declaration of war. The extermination did not begin until two years into the war, after Britain had succeed in spreading it to Russia. It was unimagined even by the most daring spirits in the SS in the summer of 1939". He has also taken issue with Irish histories of the Irish Free State during the Second World War. In a critique of the book Ireland and the League of Nations 1919–1946 edited by Michael Kelly, Clifford claims the book and others reflect non-Irish viewpoints. Clifford has endorsed David Irving as a historian and argued the charges of Holocaust denial laid against Irving are unjust, stating Irving has not denied that "millions were killed deliberately" by the Nazi government. Bibliography Clifford, Brendan (1986). Parliamentary Despotism: John Hume's Aspiration. Belfast, Northern Ireland: Athol Books. . Clifford, Brendan (1987). Queen's: A Comment on a University and a Reply to Its Politics Professor. Athol Books. . Clifford, Brendan (22 March 1989). "The Political Impotence That Fuels Rebellion; Brendan Clifford on Ulster's Resentment at Electoral Exclusion". The Independent. Clifford, Brendan; Lane, Jack (1999). Notes on Eire: Espionage Reports to Winston Churchill, 1940–2. Aubane, Ireland: Aubane Historical Society. . Clifford, Brendan (2004). Traitor-Patriots in the Great War: Casement and Masarykwith a Review of the Rise and Fall of Czechoslovakia (part of the Belfast Magazine series 23). Belfast, Northern Ireland: B. Clifford. p. 41. . Brendan Clifford on the Russian Revolution See also List of Irish historians References External links Date of birth missing (living people) 1936 births 20th-century Irish historians 21st-century Irish historians Irish activists Irish emigrants to the United Kingdom Living people Maoists People from Munster Historians of World War II British and Irish Communist Organisation members