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Brian Cowen

Author : Jason O'Toole
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1409083012
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Brian Cowen written by Jason O'Toole and published by Random House. This book was released on 2009-05-27 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Ireland's new Taoiseach, Brian Cowen Despite a high profile at the centre of Irish political life for more than twenty years, relatively little is known about our new leader. Just who is Brian Cowen? The story begins in the village of Clara, Co. Offaly, where family, local life and the GAA were formative influences. The sudden and unexpected death of his father, Ber Cowen, Fianna Fáil TD for Laois Offaly, thrust a twenty-four year-old Cowen into the heart of Irish politics. After an eight-year apprenticeship on the back benches, Cowen was appointed to his first ministerial position by Albert Reynolds and later went on to hold the senior cabinet positions of Health, Foreign Affairs and Finance. By the time of Bertie Ahern's resignation, Cowen's standing in the party was such that his election to the leadership of Fianna Fáil seemed inevitable. On 7 May 2008, Brian Cowen became Ireland's eleventh Taoiseach. Here, for the first time, is a portrait of Brian Cowen which follows his remarkable life story, tracing the road to power from early childhood right up to his eventful early months in the office of An Taoiseach.

Elections 2011

Author : Seán Donnelly
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0952019787
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Elections 2011 written by Seán Donnelly and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-01-21 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete guide to Dáil, Seanad & Presidential elections in Ireland in 2011, including comprehensive background & historical information.

Hell at the Gates:

Author : John Lee
Publisher : Mercier Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1781173958
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (811 download)

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Download or read book Hell at the Gates: written by John Lee and published by Mercier Press Ltd. This book was released on 2016-10-14 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 28 November 2010, the Irish government infamously agreed to a bailout from the Troika to save Ireland’s failing economy. This decision had huge and long-lasting social implications for Ireland and her people, and led to the annihilation of Fianna Fáil and its allies in the 2011 general election. In 'Hell at the Gates', Brian Cowen, the late Brian Lenihan, Eamon Ryan, Micheál Martin, Mary Harney and many others, recount for the first time in their own words the inside story behind the actions of the most hated government in living memory. The result is a deeply honest, intensely personal and revelation-strewn account of their experiences in the white heat of an economic meltdown. It reveals the extent to which Cowen and Lenihan’s relationship disintegrated, how members of the government were physically attacked by the public and also gives the definitive account by Micheál Martin himself of why he chose in early 2011 to move against his embattled leader. As Mary O’Rourke said of those days, ‘There was drama, tragedy, pathos, comedy, farce, love and death. It was like a Shakespearean drama.’ John Lee and Daniel McConnell have interviewed the people who were at the coalface of this drama, to produce a gripping account of those fateful days in and around Leinster House.

The Course of Irish History

Author : T. W. Moody
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493083430
Total Pages : 543 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book The Course of Irish History written by T. W. Moody and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-09-14 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published over forty years ago and now updated to cover the “Celtic Tiger” economic boom of the 2000s and subsequent worldwide recession, this new edition of a perennial bestseller interprets Irish history as a whole. Designed and written to be popular and authoritative, critical and balanced, it has been a core text in both Irish and American universities for decades. It has also proven to be an extremely popular book for casual readers with an interest in history and Irish affairs. Considered the definitive history among the Irish themselves, it is an essential text for anyone interested in the history of Ireland.

The Social Life of Coffee

Author : Brian Cowan
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300133502
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Social Life of Coffee written by Brian Cowan and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What induced the British to adopt foreign coffee-drinking customs in the seventeenth century? Why did an entirely new social institution, the coffeehouse, emerge as the primary place for consumption of this new drink? In this lively book, Brian Cowan locates the answers to these questions in the particularly British combination of curiosity, commerce, and civil society. Cowan provides the definitive account of the origins of coffee drinking and coffeehouse society, and in so doing he reshapes our understanding of the commercial and consumer revolutions in Britain during the long Stuart century. Britain’s virtuosi, gentlemanly patrons of the arts and sciences, were profoundly interested in things strange and exotic. Cowan explores how such virtuosi spurred initial consumer interest in coffee and invented the social template for the first coffeehouses. As the coffeehouse evolved, rising to take a central role in British commercial and civil society, the virtuosi were also transformed by their own invention.

A Deal With The Devil

Author : Mary Minihan
Publisher : Maverick House
ISBN 13 : 1908518081
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book A Deal With The Devil written by Mary Minihan and published by Maverick House . This book was released on 2015-01-07 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Green Party struck its “deal with the devil” by entering coalition with Fianna Fáil in 2007. The junior partner secured control of the Environment and Energy ministries, irritating some in the larger party with its pursuit of a ban on stag hunting, the introduction of civil partnerships for same-sex couples and restrictions on planning. An unprecedented crisis in the State's finances, with an exposure of the deeply flawed Irish banking system, shook the party's grassroots and its vote collapsed in the local and European elections in June 2009. The following October, party members threatened to pull out of Government over the controversial National Asset Management Agency (Nama), while senior figures were kept in the dark about the arrival of the IMF in 2010. The Greens dropped a bombshell late that year, demanding a date for an early general election, but stayed in Government in the hope of passing key Green legislation. Controversy over revelations about then Taoiseach Brian Cowen's contacts with Sean Fitzpatrick while he was still Anglo chairman strained relationships further. A bungled reshuffle was aborted at the behest of the Greens, and the “momentous” decision to pull the plug on the Coalition was taken in January 2011. But their three-and-a-half year period in Government cost them dearly at the polls.

The Europeanization of Party Politics in Ireland, North and South

Author : Katy Hayward
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317965590
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Book Synopsis The Europeanization of Party Politics in Ireland, North and South by : Katy Hayward

Download or read book The Europeanization of Party Politics in Ireland, North and South written by Katy Hayward and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ireland’s relationship with the European Union has been determined by the behaviour, actions and discourse of political parties. This book examines this impact through an in-depth analysis of the Europeanization of party politics in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. First, it presents original research on cross-cutting issues that have featured in political debates about European integration, including referendum campaigns on EU treaties, Irish neutrality and party policy positions on the EU. Secondly, it is the first book of its kind to examine in detail how each of the main parties on the island of Ireland has adapted to EU membership. In doing so it both tests the thesis of ‘Europeanization’ and deepens understanding of the impact that EU membership can have on national and sub-national party politics. What this study reveals is that, while Europeanization is clearly evident in all parties in Ireland, including those most critical of European integration, its influence has been strictly curtailed. We argue that the effects of Europeanization in Irish party politics have been limited by enduring resistance to – and conditions placed upon – EU influence in particular policy areas, the importance of pragmatism and (sub-)national priorities in shaping parties’ approaches to European integration and the fact that engagement with the EU continues to be a predominantly elite-led process. This book was published as a special issue of Irish Political Studies.

Parliamentary Assembly Official report of Debates 2000 Ordinary Session (Second part, Volume II), March 2000

Author : Council of Europe
Publisher : Council of Europe
ISBN 13 : 9789287144744
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (447 download)

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Download or read book Parliamentary Assembly Official report of Debates 2000 Ordinary Session (Second part, Volume II), March 2000 written by Council of Europe and published by Council of Europe. This book was released on with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Brian Cowen

Author : Johnny Fallon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781856356473
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (564 download)

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Download or read book Brian Cowen written by Johnny Fallon and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book based on a study of Cowen's performance and statements in the Dail since 1984.

Fianna Fáil : The End of the Party

Author : Bruce Arnold
Publisher : Gill & Macmillan Ltd
ISBN 13 : 0717151921
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Fianna Fáil : The End of the Party written by Bruce Arnold and published by Gill & Macmillan Ltd. This book was released on 2011-10-28 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Election of February 2011 will be remembered for the defeat and virtual annihilation of Fianna Fáil. Stripped of power in humiliating circumstances, the party was disgraced, possibly to the point of no return. The story of how this happened is a mixture of farce and tragedy. The collective leadership of the party lost touch with reality and watched, as though mesmerised, while Brian Cowen led them from one catastrophic mistake to another. He was aided in this by Brian Lenihan, Minister for Finance, whose mistakes were among the worst ever made by the holder of this crucial office. Fianna Fáil demolished itself in the eyes of the electorate due to its entanglement with property and banking scandals, inept decisions and gross mismanagement of the most profitable time ever enjoyed by the Irish people. Two journalists with inside knowledge of the events and extensive experience of politics over many years have joined their talents to write this gripping story.

Just Mary: A Political Memoir From Mary O'Rourke

Author : Mary O'Rourke
Publisher : Gill & Macmillan Ltd
ISBN 13 : 0717154106
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Just Mary: A Political Memoir From Mary O'Rourke written by Mary O'Rourke and published by Gill & Macmillan Ltd. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this memoir Mary O' Rourke writes, with remarkable candidness and humour, of personal and political events; of the many senior political figures with whom she worked, including Charles Haughey and Bertie Ahern; of her life with her beloved husband Enda; of her two dear Brians, both of whom died before their time; of her successes and disappointments. She does all this with honesty, energy and an absence of self-pity or self-justification. The book is like the woman herself: open, warm and frank.

Resilient Liberalism in Europe's Political Economy

Author : Vivien A. Schmidt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107041538
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Book Synopsis Resilient Liberalism in Europe's Political Economy by : Vivien A. Schmidt

Download or read book Resilient Liberalism in Europe's Political Economy written by Vivien A. Schmidt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-29 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explains why neoliberal economic ideas have not just survived, but thrived since the 1980s - taking Europe from boom to bust.

Celtic Revival?

Author : Sean Kay
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1442211113
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Celtic Revival? written by Sean Kay and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2011-08-16 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celtic Revival? explores what happens when a society loses its wealth, its faith in government, and its trust in its Church. The glorious rise of the Celtic Tiger in Ireland was thought by many to be a model for future economic growth for countries around the world; its dramatic crash in 2008 resonated equally widely. Yet despite the magnitude of the ongoing collapse, Sean Kay shows that seen in historical perspective, the crisis is part of a much larger pattern of generations of progress and change. Kay draws on a rich blend of research, interviews with a broad spectrum of Irish society, and his own decades of personal experience to tell the story of Ireland today. He guides the reader through the country's major economic challenges, political transformation, social change, the crisis in the Irish Catholic Church, and the rise of gay rights and multiculturalism. He takes us through the streets of Derry and Belfast to understand the Northern Ireland peace process and the daunting task of peace building that has only just begun. Finally, we see how Irish foreign policy has long been a model for balancing competing interests and values. Kay concludes by highlighting Ireland's lessons for the world and mapping a vital path for twenty-first-century challenges and opportunities for the coming generations in Ireland and beyond.

The Statesman's Yearbook 2011

Author : B. Turner
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349586358
Total Pages : 1608 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (495 download)

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Download or read book The Statesman's Yearbook 2011 written by B. Turner and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-01-12 with total page 1608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in its 147th edition, The Statesman's Yearbook continues to be the reference work of choice for accurate and reliable information on every country in the world. Covering political, economic, social and cultural aspects, the Yearbook is an essential resource.

The Statesman's Yearbook 2010

Author : B. Turner
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349586323
Total Pages : 1608 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (495 download)

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Download or read book The Statesman's Yearbook 2010 written by B. Turner and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-01-12 with total page 1608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'the most convenient and reliable starting point for information on public affairs' - George J. Mitchell, US Senator. Each copy comes with FREE online access to www.statesmansyearbook.com . Site license upgrades are also available for libraries who wish to network the data. New this year: a chronology of the 'credit crunch.'

Negotiating a Settlement in Northern Ireland, 1969-2019

Author : John Coakley
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198841388
Total Pages : 618 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book Negotiating a Settlement in Northern Ireland, 1969-2019 written by John Coakley and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-01-15 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Negotiating a Settlement in Northern Ireland: From Sunningdale to St Andrews uses original material from witness seminars, elite interviews, and archive documents to explore the shape taken by the Irish peace process, and in particular to analyse the manner in which successful stages of this were negotiated. Northern Ireland's Good Friday Agreement of 1998 marked the end a 30-year conflict that had witnessed more than 3,000 deaths, thousands of injuries, catastrophic societal damage, and large-scale economic dislocation. This book traces the roots of the Agreement over the decades, stretching back to the Sunningdale conference of 1973 and extending up to at least the St Andrews Agreement of 2006. It describes the changing relationship between parties to the conflict (nationalist and unionist groups within Northern Ireland, and the Irish and British governments) and identifies three dimensions of significant change: new ways of implementing the concept of sovereignty, growing acceptance of power sharing, and the steady emergence of substantial equality in the socio-economic, cultural, and political domains. As well as placing this in the context of an extensive social science literature, the book innovates by looking at the manner in which those most closely involved understood the process in which they were engaged. The authors reproduce testimonies from witness seminars and interviews involving central actors, including former prime ministers, ministers, senior officials, and political advisors. They conclude that the outcome was shaped by a distinctive interaction between the conscious planning of these elites and changing demographic and political realities that themselves were, in a symbiotic way, consequences of decisions made in earlier years. They also note the extent to which this settlement has come under pressure from new notions of sovereignty implicit in the Brexit process.

Madam Politician

Author : Martina Fitzgerald
Publisher : Gill & Macmillan Ltd
ISBN 13 : 0717181448
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Madam Politician written by Martina Fitzgerald and published by Gill & Macmillan Ltd. This book was released on 2018-10-12 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only 10 per cent of those who have sat at the cabinet table in Ireland in almost 100 years have been women, totalling just 19 female politicians. Along with the two former female presidents of Ireland, all of the living members of this exclusive club are interviewed here for the first time, collectively bringing together their voices to reveal the challenges and triumphs of getting to the top table of Irish political life.The interviewees are Mary Robinson, Mary McAleese, Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, Gemma Hussey, Mary O'Rourke, Nora Owen, Niamh Bhreathnach, Mary Harney, Síle de Valera, Mary Coughlan, Mary Hanafin, Joan Burton, Frances Fitzgerald, Jan O'Sullivan, Heather Humphreys, Mary Mitchell O'Connor, Katherine Zappone, Regina Doherty and Josepha Madigan.From the battles to have their voices heard to balancing a career with family life, dealing with various levels of sexism and an enduring focus on appearance, their personal stories are dramatic, colourful and inspiring. In opening up about how they secured a place at the top table of political life, these women give us remarkable insights into a changing Ireland.'A fascinating and compelling read that couldn't be more timely.' Miriam O'Callaghan'A timely and important contribution to the contemporary reflection on women's historic and future place in Irish society and public life.' Emily O'Reilly, European Ombudsman