From General Michael Collins to Lieutenant General Dermot Earley, the Irish Defence Forces have been led by a succession of outstanding and distanced Chiefs of Staff. Their leadership has been vital and decisive from the Forces' turbulent founding through the Emergency, the early pioneering years of United Nations' peacekeeping missions, the difficult and demanding period of the Northern troubles and through a time of intense reform and re-organisation. The Defence Forces Headquarters Mess in McKee Barracks, Dublin, houses a unique collection of portraits of all the Chiefs of Staff. Begun in the 1950s and continued unbroken through the generosity of the mess members and the State. This collection is an exceptional record of this leadership and it contains many works by the most notable Irish portrait painters form the 1950s to the present day. This book reproduces the collection with superb full-colour images of the paintings, each accompanied by detailed entries on the Chief of Staff'

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A Family run bookshop based in Co. Mayo, Ireland. Stocking a wide range of books on Co. Mayo and Irish History, as well as some general titles. Shipping will be sent the day after the order has been placed. All books listed are stocked in our shop on Castle St., Castlebar, Co. Mayo

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Welcome to mayobooks a website specialising in books written about the beautiful county of Mayo and books written by local authors from Co. Mayo. We currently have a large range of titles in stock and we are updating and broadening our catalogue on a regular basis.Mayobooks.ie is operated from the The Castle Book and Card Centre on Castle Street in Castlebar, Co. Mayo. The Castle Bookshop has been in Castlebar for the past 30 years, providing a platform for books about Mayo.

We also stock a wide range of Irish History books, books about Ireland as well as some general titles

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