The title of Seán MacBride's obituary in the Sunday Telegraph, on 17 January 1988, was breathtakingly direct. The article itself was equally hard-hitting, describing MacBride as a 'murderer ... [with] a psychopathic inability to ...
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Language: en
Pages: 245
Pages: 245
One of Ireland's most abidingly controversial political figures, Seán MacBride (1904-88) was a youthful participant in the Irish Revolution and an active member of the Irish Republican Army, rising through the ranks to occupy a leadership position for fifteen years. Seán MacBride is the first book to focus exclusively on
Language: en
Pages: 325
Pages: 325
An exceptional man, an extraordinary career – a life of Seán MacBride, Ireland’s most distinguished statesman Sean MacBride (1904–1988) was at different times the Chief of Staff of the IRA, a top criminal lawyer, leader of Clann na Poblachta, Irish Foreign Minister, UN Commissioner, and a founding member of Amnesty
Language: en
Pages: 350
Pages: 350
Presents brief biographical portraits of the 106 recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize during its 100-year history.
Language: en
Pages: 320
Pages: 320
Major John MacBride, who was Born in Westport, County Mayo in 1868, was a household name in Ireland when many of the leaders of the Easter Rising were still relatively unknown figures. As part of the ‘Irish Brigade’, a band of nationalists fighting against the British in the Second Boer
Language: en
Pages: 410
Pages: 410
In Ideas Matter a wide array of Irish and international figures pay tribute to Conor Cruise O'Brien, with a collection of original essays on a wide range of issues which fascinated O'Brien: Irish history and politics, the United Nations, the Middle East, African affairs, American studies, the interplay of literature