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Ireland has passed through her period of revolution and the turbulent aftermath, and her long hard climb to economic prosperity is nearing success. She has reached a watershed in her development wherein the emphasis is no longer on political or constitutional transformation but on economic and social change. Her wounds have healed, or nearly so. She is now able to see herself for what she is: a small nation with much to be proud of, particularly in...

The most charismatic figure to emerge during the struggles for the independence of Ireland was undoubtedly Michael Collins. This remarkable new biography, which draws on much hitherto unpublished material, charts the dramatic rise of the country boy who became head of the Free State and commander-in-chief of the army. Born of peasant stock in the rural south-west of Ireland in 1890, Collins joined the Volunteers in 1916 and fought in the Easter Rising....

"Based on thousands of interviews over 35 years with the leaders and members of the Republican movement and the IRA, as well as with the Irish British, and Americans involved in the Troubles - police, paramilitaries, politicians, bankers, agents, diplomats - and deploying a detailed knowledge of all the orthodox printed sources, this work is unique in the literature." "Not unmindful of the unfolding of history or the relevance of events, the focus...