Book Reviews. Belfast Telegraph, Saturday 9 Jan 99. PALL OF SMOKE HANGS OVER THE MEMORY. By Grainia McFadden. No one in Northern Ireland needs reminding of many of the events in the province during the bloodiest years of the troubles. In 1971, the then Home Secretary for Northern Ireland, Reginald Maudling said he could foresee a time when IRA violence could be reduced to an "acceptable level." People weren't quite sure what he meant. We know now of course and have lived with an acceptable level of violence for more than twenty years. Alex Ashe has chosen to tell the story of this "acceptable...