Coogan's biography provides a fascinating insight into a great political leader, whilst vividly portraying the political unrest in a divided Ireland, that can help to shape our understanding of Ireland's past, present and future.
This authorative and comprehensive biography presents the life of a man who became a legend in his own lifetime, whose idealistic vigour and determination were matched only by his political realism and supreme organisational abilities. The Troubles refers to a violent thirty-year conflict, at the heart of which lay the constitutional status of Northern Ireland. So ended the life of the greatest of all Irish nationalists, but his visions and legacy lived on. Books by Tim Pat Coogan (Author of Michael Collins) Books by Tim Pat Coogan Tim Pat Coogan Average rating 3. A war of attrition against enemy personnel which is aimed at causing as many casualties and. When President of the Irish Republic Michael Collins signed the Anglo-Irish Treaty in December 1921, he remarked to Lord Birkenhead, 'I may have signed my actual death warrant.' In August 1922 at the height of the Irish Civil War, that prophecy came true - Collins was shot and killed by a fellow Irishman in a shocking political assassination. The Green Book: I from The IRA by Tim Pat Coogan (1993) 1. Author: Coogan, Tim Pat Format: Book xxii, 808 p., 32 leaves of plates : ill., maps. 'The unofficial voice of modern Irish history' Economist Tim Pat Coogan was born on 22 April 1935 in Monkstown, County Dublin, Ireland. Available in the National Library of Australia collection. A fascinating and thorough biography of Ireland's gretaest revolutionary leader, a man credited with founding a modern, independent Republic of Ireland. Tim Pat Coogan covers the tortured history of Ireland from the beginning of the civil rights movement of the 1960s, through the long years of violence.
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