Haughey's Forty Years of Controversy

Dwyer, T Ryle

ISBN 10: 1856354261 / ISBN 13: 9781856354264

Published by Mercier Press, 2005

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Haughey's Forty Years of Controversy
• Publisher: Mercier Press
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1856354261
• ISBN 13: 9781856354264
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1710282462.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: 9794758
• Signed: 3/12/2024 10:27:42 PM
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Synopsis

Throughout his political career, Charles J. Haughey has been involved in major political scandals of Watergate proportions: The Arms Crisis, the telephone tapping scandal, the Beef Tribunal, the Ben Dunne payments, tax evasion, the Terry Keane revelations, the Moriarity Tribunal and the McCracken Tribunal, to name a few. In this up-to-date recoed of Haughey's controversial career, T.Ryle Dwyer delivers his conclusions on the Haughey years. Lively, succinct, opinionated, drawing extensively on independent research, Forty Years of Controversy is the indispensable handbook for anyone intruiged by one of Ireland's most inscruitable politicians.

About the Author

T. Ryle Dwyer was educated in Tralee CBS and at the University of North Texas, USA, where he received BA, MA and PhD degrees in history. He is a regular columnist with the Irish Examiner and has published eighteen books on different aspects of twentieth-century Irish history, including a highly-acclaimed biography of Charles J. Haughey, Short Fellow.