Long Fellow, Long Shadow

De Valera

To mark the cetenary of the Easter Rising, and with extra material, this is the biography of Eamon De Valera by Tim Pat Coogan - the sharpest contemporary observer of the Irish political scene.

Tim Pat Coogan, former editor of the Irish Press, is well known on both sides of the Atlantic for his journalism and especially for his books, which include Wherever Green is Worn, The Troubles, Michael Collins and De Valera.

The history of Ireland for much of the Twentieth century is the history of Eamon De Valera. 
 
From the 1916 Rising, the troubled Treaty negotiations and the Civil War, right through to his retirement after longer in power than any other twentieth century leader, de Valera has both defined and divided Ireland. He was directly responsible for the Irish Constitution, Fianna Fail (the largest Irish political party) and the Irish Press Group. 
 
He helped create a political church-state monolith with continuing implications for Northern Ireland, the social role of women, the Irish language and the hole concept of an Irish nation. Many of the challenges he confronted are still troubling the peace of Ireland and of Britain, and some of the problems are his legacy. 
 
For de Valera was a world figure who attempted to confine his nation of disciples to the narrowest of cultural and intellectual horizons.

Ireland In The 20th Century

'Vividly painted- A tour de force, delivered in Tim Pat Coogan's inimitable style' Ireland on Sunday

A journey into our own psyche ... Tim Pat Coogan has dug, Heaney-like, into the past while opening doors to faraway places

It is the result of great energy, imagination and painstaking detective work ... It is a big book on a big topic. Don't just read it. Buy it and reread it

Vividly painted - A tour de force, delivered in Tim Pat Coogan's inimitable style

Tim Pat Coogan, former editor of the Irish Press, is well known on both sides of the Atlantic for his journalism and especially for his books, which include Wherever Green is Worn, The Troubles, Michael Collins and De Valera.

Ireland's bestselling popular historian tells the story of contemporary Ireland - controversial, authoritative and highly readable. Tim Pat Coogan's biographies of Michael Collins and DeValera and his studies of the IRA, the Troubles and the Irish Diaspora have transformed our understanding of contemporary Ireland, and all have been massive bestsellers. Now he has produced a major history of Ireland in the twentieth century. Covering both South and North and dealing with cultural and social history as well as political, this enthralling work will become the definitive single-volume account of the making of modern Ireland.

The Story of the Irish Diaspora

Wherever Green Is Worn

'A journey into our own psyche... Tim Pat Coogan has dug, Heaney-like, into the past while opening doors to faraway places.' Frank McCourt

Tim Pat Coogan is the former editor of the Irish Press and the author of The Troubles, De Valera, Michael Collins and The IRA (among other bestselling books).

Far more Irishmen live outside Ireland than within it. This fascinating study, by Ireland's best known and most controversial contemporary historian, reveals why this is, how it has come about and what the realities are today - political, economic, religious and cultural - for the populations of the 'Irish Diaspora' and the countries they now inhabit. Based on first-hand research in America, Africa, Australia, New Zealand and throughout Europe (including, of course, the UK), this book reveals the workings of Irish communities throughout the world, some with great political and economic power (such as in the US, where the Irish political tradition has dominated politics from the 19th century Tammany Hall to presidents Kennedy and Clinton), some with enormous moral authority (including Irish religious communities in Africa) and others living in poverty on the fringes of society.

Ireland's Ordeal 1966-1995 and the Search for Peace

The Troubles

This history of Ireland, written by one of Ireland's most controversial journalists, studies the period from 1968 to the present day. Tim Coogan is also the author of The I.R.A. and two biographies - Michael Collins and De Valera.

Tim Pat Coogan

There have been several other lives of Collins, but none has assembled such wealth of detail

A lively and colourful adventure story with a fascinating yet recognisably human hero

A Biography

'The unofficial voice of modern Irish history' Economist 
 
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. 
 
So ended the life of the greatest of all Irish nationalists, but his visions and legacy lived on. 
 
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. 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. 
 
'There have been several other lives of Collins, but none has assembled such wealth of detail' Independent on Sunday

Tim Pat Coogan

Praise for Michael Collins

There have been several other lives of Collins, but none has assembled such wealth of detail

A lively and colourful adventure story with a fascinating yet recognisably human hero

Enjoyable and valuable

There have been several other lives of Collins, but none has assembled such wealth of detail

A lively and colourful adventure story with a fascinating yet recognisably human hero

Enjoyable and valuable

There have been several other lives of Collins, but none has assembled such wealth of detail

A lively and colourful adventure story with a fascinating yet recognisably human hero

Enjoyable and valuable

Books by Tim Pat Coogan

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