Description
Book SynopsisThis major new account of the politics of modern Ireland offers a rigorous analysis of the forces which shaped both how the Irish state governed itself from the period since 1987 and how it lost its economic sovereignty in 2010.
Trade Review'...the best and most complete political synthesis of the era.'
Gerard Howlin, The Sunday Times Ireland, May 2016
'What he successfully does is tie together the political events and personalities behind events in a 25-year period. The result leaves the reader with a genuinely good knowledge of what happened in politics and is certainly an encouragement to delve further into more detailed accounts.'
Brian Hayes, Irish Times, June 2016
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Table of ContentsIntroduction: The conservative revolutionaries
I. Of constitutional and economic crusades: Ireland in the 1980s
2. Charles J. Haughey and the politics of coalition
3. The politics of changing coalitions
4. Tribunals of inquiry and the politics of corrupt influence
5. Fianna Fáil and the politics of hubris
6. Fianna Fáil and the politics of nemesis
Conclusion: The Politics of Troika Ireland
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