Timothy Patrick Coogan is een Ierse schrijver en historicus, bekend om zijn scherpe analyses van de moderne Ierse geschiedenis. Zijn werk duikt vaak in controversiële aspecten van het verleden van het land en presenteert nauwgezet onderzochte verslagen die tot debat aanzetten. Coogan wordt geprezen om zijn vermogen om complexe politieke en sociale gebeurtenissen tot leven te brengen, waardoor lezers een diepgaand inzicht krijgen in de turbulente reis van Ierland. Zijn boeiende vertelstijl maakt historische wetenschap toegankelijk en meeslepend.
A controversial history of the Great Famine from Ireland's greatest historian, who provocatively points the finger of blame at the British government. Combining the latest research and fresh insights, this is a fascinating and sobering look at a dark period of global history as well as the ramifications that still resonate today.
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 came true when Collins was ambushed, shot and killed by a compatriot, but his vision and legacy lived on. Tim Pat Coogan's biography presents the life of a man whose idealistic vigor and determination were matched by his political realism and organizational abilities. This is the classic biography of the man who created modern Ireland.
An updated edition of this unique, bestselling history of the IRA, now including behind-the-scenes information on the recent advances made in the peace process. Tim Pat Coogan’s classic The IRA provides the only fair-minded, comprehensive history of the organization that has transformed the Irish nationalist movement this century. With clarity and detachment, Coogan examines the IRA’s origins, its foreign links, the bombing campaigns, hunger strikes and sectarian violence, and now their role in the latest attempt to bring peace to Northern Ireland. Meticulously researched, and backed up by interviews with past and present members of the organization, Tim Pat Coogan’s book is an authoritative and compelling account of modern Irish history from the point of view of one of its most controversial major participants.