Timothy Patrick Coogan ist ein irischer Historiker, der für seine scharfsinnigen Auseinandersetzungen mit der modernen irischen Geschichte bekannt ist. Seine Arbeit befasst sich oft mit kontroversen Aspekten der Vergangenheit des Landes und präsentiert sorgfältig recherchierte Berichte, die Debatten anregen. Coogan wird für seine Fähigkeit gefeiert, komplexe politische und soziale Ereignisse lebendig werden zu lassen und den Lesern ein tiefes Verständnis von Irlands turbulenter Reise zu vermitteln. Sein fesselnder Erzählstil macht historische Forschung zugänglich und spannend.
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.
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.
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.