By Colman Cassidy, 18 July 1975 Peadar O’Donnell, by Grattan Freyer, Bucknell University Press Peadar O’Donnell:Irish Social Rebel by Michael McInerney, O’Brien Press These two books make a good introduction to the work of Peadar O’Donnell – novelist, schoolteacher, journalist, patriot and political agitator – which is not as well known as it should be….
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COLMAN CASSIDY * Fire in the Morning: The story of the Irish and the Twin Towers on September 11. By Niall O’Dowd. Brandon, 236 pp. €14.99 Published in 2002 A particular strength of this book is that it confines itself to the micro-picture. O’Dowd does not attempt to present the reader with naive analysis that…
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James Hogan: Revolutionary, Historian and Political Scientist. Edited by Donnchadh Ó Corráin. Four Courts Press. 249 pp. Published October 2001 By Colman Cassidy The synoptic approach adopted in this book makes James Hogan – the Cumann na nGaedheal intellectual and frustrated “puppet-master” who sought to mould the neo-fascist Blueshirt leader Eoin O’Duffy in the national…
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