Tim Pat Coogan
Tim Pat Coogan is Ireland's best-known historical writer. His 1990 biography of Michael Collins rekindled widespread interest in the revolutionary era. He is also the author of The IRA, Long Fellow, Long Shadow, Wherever Green is Worn, and The Famine Plot.
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1916: One Hundred Years of Irish Independence
Tim Pat Coogan
St. Martin's Press
Thomas Dunne Books
There’s before 1916 and then there’s after. Between them lies the Easter Rising, when Irish republicans took up arms against British rule and changed the course of their country’s...
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The Famine Plot
Tim Pat Coogan
St. Martin's Publishing Group
St. Martin's Griffin
"To many, Mr. Coogan . . . [is the] voice of modern Irish history . . . makes a compelling case for why we should revisit our current understanding of [the famine]." —The Economist
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Ireland in the Twentieth Century
Tim Pat Coogan
St. Martin's Press
St. Martin's Griffin
A rousing history of Ireland in its most tumultous century by one of the most well-known and beloved Irish writers of our time.
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Wherever Green Is Worn
Tim Pat Coogan
St. Martin's Press
St. Martin's Griffin
A sweeping history of all the places the Irish went when they left Ireland by one of the best known Irish historians in the world.
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On the Blanket
Tim Pat Coogan
St. Martin's Press
St. Martin's Griffin
The H Block protest is one of the strangest and most controversial issues in the tragic history of Northern Ireland. Republican prisoners, convicted of grave crimes through special courts and ruthless...
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Michael Collins: The Man Who Made Ireland
Tim Pat Coogan
St. Martin's Press
St. Martin's Griffin
When the Irish nationalist Michael Collins signed the Anglo-Irish Treaty in December 1921, he observed to Lord Birkenhead that he may have signed his own death warrant. In August 1922 that prophecy...
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The Troubles: Ireland's Ordeal and the Search for Peace
Tim Pat Coogan
St. Martin's Press
St. Martin's Griffin
Tim Pat Coogan covers the tortured history of Ireland from the beginning of the civil rights movement of the 1960s, through the long years of violence, up to the present attempts to find peace. His...
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