A Makeshift Majority
Author : David McCullagh
Publisher :
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 43,49 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Coalition governments
ISBN :
The Reluctant Taoiseach
Author : David McCullagh
Publisher : Gill & Macmillan
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 45,81 MB
Release : 2011-10-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780717150601
Book Description
John A. Costello remains the most elusive of our former Taoisigh, despite his enormous contribution to Irish history. He declared the Republic, led the country's first ever coalition government, and faced the Mother and Child Crisis. A surprise choice who battled against taking the job, Costello was the Reluctant Taoiseach. Historian and political correspondent David McCullagh charts the life of this fascinating man, using his personal archive of papers, as well as interviews with former colleagues, family and friends. McCullagh offers new insights into a political career which stretched from Independence to the end of the 1960s, including the Commonwealth Conferences of the 1920s, to the new Constitution of 1937, and Governments in the 1940s and 1950s. Politician, barrister, Attorney General, politician, family man--The Reluctant Taoiseach takes a fresh and revealing look at the life of a man at the centre of politics and law during one of the most turbulent periods in Irish history. "This is the best historical biography in recent years" Maurice Manning, Irish Mail on Sunday "In David McCullagh, John Costello has found the best biographer he could possibly have hoped for" Andrew Lynch, Sunday Business Post Agenda "A biography that is not just hugely authoritative but also highly readable" Shane Coleman, The Sunday Tribune
De Valera: Rule
Author : David McCullagh
Publisher : Gill & Macmillan Ltd
Page : 675 pages
File Size : 32,67 MB
Release : 2018-10-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0717184064
Book Description
In this, the concluding volume of David McCullagh's monumental new life of the revolutionary and statesman, we join De Valera in 1932 as he takes the reins of power in the first Fianna Fáil government, and follow him as he confronts one challenge after another – the Economic War, the drafting of Bunreacht na hÉireann, the Emergency, the North, the declaration of the Republic, economic stagnation in the 1950s – and sets about gradually remaking a sovereign Ireland in his own image.Beautifully written and deeply researched, McCullagh's De Valera is a provocative and nuanced portrait of Ireland's most enigmatic leader, as well as a balanced assessment of his role in shaping our national self-image.
Relics
Author :
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 23,55 MB
Release : 2011-10-31
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0226568709
Book Description
World-renowned zoologist and photographer Naskrecki leads readers on a time-lapse tour that renders Earth's colossal age comprehensible, visible in creatures and habitats that have persisted, nearly untouched, for hundreds of millions of years.
Orderly and Humane
Author : R. M. Douglas
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 40,80 MB
Release : 2012-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0300183763
Book Description
The award-winning history of 12 million German-speaking civilians in Europe who were driven from their homes after WWII: “a major achievement” (New Republic). Immediately after the Second World War, the victorious Allies authorized the forced relocation of ethnic Germans from their homes across central and southern Europe to Germany. The numbers were almost unimaginable: between 12 and 14 million civilians, most of them women and children. And the losses were horrifying: at least five hundred thousand people, and perhaps many more, died while detained in former concentration camps, locked in trains, or after arriving in Germany malnourished, and homeless. In this authoritative and objective account, historian R.M. Douglas examines an aspect of European history that few have wished to confront, exploring how the forced migrations were conceived, planned, and executed, and how their legacy reverberates throughout central Europe today. The first comprehensive history of this immense manmade catastrophe, Orderly and Humane is an important study of the largest recorded episode of what we now call "ethnic cleansing." It may also be the most significant untold story of the World War II.
Contemporary Irish Studies
Author : Tom Gallagher
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 37,59 MB
Release : 1983
Category : History
ISBN : 9780719009198
Book Description
Majority and Minority Report of the Special Committee on Public Utilities of the Forty-ninth General Assembly of the State of Illinois
Author : Illinois. General Assembly. House of Representatives. Special committee on public utilities
Publisher :
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 23,22 MB
Release : 1917
Category : Public utilities
ISBN :
Book Description
Radical or Redundant?
Author : Liam Weeks
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 21,34 MB
Release : 2011-11-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0752480839
Book Description
While the type of small political party In Ireland has varied, their fate, it seems, has not. Although some enjoy a brief time in the sun, termination is the long-term prospects for all minor parties. The usual pattern is a speedy ascent, an impact on the political system including a time in government, followed by a prolonged termination. This book examines this pattern of evolution for minor, or small, parties in Irish politics. As the Irish state has changed, so too have the types of parties that have emerged. With the first-time entry of the Greens into government in 2007, their wipeout in 2011, the termination of the Progressive Democrats in 2009, and the failure of a new party to emerge despite the on-going financial crisis, the time is ripe for this analysis.
Becoming Attached
Author : Robert Karen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 825 pages
File Size : 26,21 MB
Release : 2024-02-12
Category : Attachment behavior
ISBN : 0199398798
Book Description
This expanded and fully updated edition of Becoming Attached tells the story of one of the great undertakings of modern psychology: the hundred-year quest to understand the nature of the child and the components of good-enough care. Psychologist and journalist Robert Karen chronicles the origin and history of a groundbreaking idea - attachment theory - and its resounding impact on the fields of developmental psychology, psychiatry, and psychoanalysis.
Making the Difference?
Author : Paul Rouse
Publisher : Gill & Macmillan Ltd
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 23,90 MB
Release : 2012-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 184889970X
Book Description
In 2011, on the cusp of its centenary year, the Labour Party recorded its greatest ever electoral success, with 37 TDs elected and a President. In doing so the party has succeeded, temporarily at least, in breaking free from the old two-and-a-half party system. But, why, for its first century, did Labour struggle to match its ambition? This series of essays to mark the party's centenary assesses the challenges facing Labour in a deeply conservative country, where echoes of civil war and Catholic Church hegemony have dominated the political landscape. Leading writers from the fields of journalism, history and social reform examine the failings, splits and contradictions of Ireland's oldest political party alongside the social and economic achievements to which the Labour Party lays claim. Contributors: Ivana Bacik; Michael Laffan; Ronan O'Brien; Stephen Collins; David McCullagh; Eunan O'Halpin; Paul Daly; Ciara Meeha;n Niamh Puirseil; Diarmaid Ferriter; William Mulligan; Kevin Rafter; Eamon Gilmore; William Murphy ;Jane Suiter. All royalties to Barnardos.
