This Great Little Nation: An A-Z of Irish Scandals

This Great Little Nation: An A-Z of Irish Scandals

by Gene Kerrigan (Author), Gene Kerrigan (Author), Pat Brennan (Author)

Synopsis

From Ansbacher to Zoe, from Locke to Lowry, from a sex/murder scandal of the 1920s to the banking scandals of the 1990s. AIB, NIB, Littlejohn, Lenihan, Mary Robinson and Russell Murphy. Magdalen laundries and clerical sex abuse, ministerial pensions and mature recollections. From the Great Tampon Scandal of 1944 to the Arms Crisis of 1970. From Taca to Tuffy to Traynor: tax dodging, insurance churning, money laundering, pick-me-ups, heavy gangs and thundering disgraces. McCracken, Moriarty, Flood, Telecom, planning, Haughey, Burke, Bertie and Bruton. And the secrets of the PD skip. As the bank manager said to Charlie, it's a great little nation. Other books by Gene Kerrigan Another Country Hard Cases Never Make a Promise You Can't Break.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
Publisher: Gill & Macmillan Ltd
Published: Nov 1999

ISBN 10: 0717129373
ISBN 13: 9780717129379

Author Bio
Gene Kerrigan wrote the bestselling 'Hard Cases' and 'Another Country'. He writes for the 'Sunday Independent'. Pat Brennan was deputy editor of 'Magill' magazine and the 'Sunday Tribune'. She is now an editor with RTE News.