Friday, October 4, 2024

THE MAN WHO MADE IRELAND - Tim Pat Coogan


 


















I've spent years trying to understand Irish politics and I'm still no closer even after reading this very interesting biography.

Complex would be understating what Collins was, if he hadn't been assassinated who knows how things would have panned out , but reading this I'm suggesting much of the blood shed 50 years later wouldn't have occurred.

A much easier read than Coogan's book on De Valera.

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