JOHN CHARLES MCQUAID RULER OF CATHOLIC IRELAND

Fine Hardcover with dust jacket. Based on extensive use of McQuaid's personal papers and Government records, John Cooney, one of Ireland's leading journalists, traces McQuaid's rise to power, and charts his downfall after the Second Vatican Council in the 1960's, which opened Ireland to the more secular outlook and values of the modern world. John Charles McQuaid personified Catholic power in Ireland- and sowed the seeds of the Church's dramatic decline in the 1990's. He was the last of the formidable Renaissance-style prelates of twentieth-century Ireland. Collector's Item.