The Power Game: Ireland Under Fianna Fail

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Illustrated
2001
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The Power Game lifts the lid on the modern struggles for power within Fianna Fail, including the heaves against Charles Haughey and the shafting of Albert Reynolds. It also explores in detail the careers of Jack Lynch, Charles Haughey, Albert Reynolds and Bertie Ahern, and looks at the impact on the party of the explosive revelations at the judicial tribunals about the extent of corruption in Irish public life.
New material: Stephen Collins examines the most recent disclosures concerning the arms crisis of 1970 and information released from the military archives.

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The Power Game lifts the lid on the modern struggles for power within Fianna Fail, including the heaves against Charles Haughey and the shafting of Albert Reynolds. It also explores in detail the careers of Jack Lynch, Charles Haughey, Albert Reynolds and Bertie Ahern, and looks at the impact on the party of the explosive revelations at the judicial tribunals about the extent of corruption in Irish public life.

New material: Stephen Collins examines the most recent disclosures concerning the arms crisis of 1970 and information released from the military archives.

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Format: Illustrated
Pages: 368
Edition: 2
Publisher: O'Brien Press
Published: 11 Sep 2001
ISBN 10: 0862787203
ISBN 13: 9780862787202

Media Reviews

'Reads like a John Grisham thriller.' -- Pat Kenny
'A pivotal work that focuses on where we are, politically, in Ireland at the start of the new millennium.' -- The Irish Times * The Irish Times *
'The internal loyalties and cliques, the way in which such loyalty is ignored when expediency demands, and the actual and suspected abuse of power are just some of the impressions received from this chronicle ... Much of the material ... has been aired in the very recent past in the various tribunals so that it is familiar ground to the reader, and all the more fascinating for that.' -- Bookview Ireland
'After a brief chapter on the Founding Fathers de Valera and Lemass, four comprehensive and well-paced sections systematically blow the gaffe on the Lynch years, the Haughey years, the Reynolds years and on to ahem Ahern.' -- Books Ireland * Books Ireland *
'It is a well told account of modern Irish history and of the party which has dominated it, and looks set to continue to do so for some time to come. Highly recommended.' -- Tuam Herald * Tuam Herald *

Author Bio

STEPHEN COLLINS is political editor of the Sunday Tribune and is a frequent contributor to radio and television programmes on political matters. He has written several books, including The Haughey Files and Spring and the Labour Story. His latest book, The Power Game, charting the rise and fall and rise again of the Fianna Fail party, is a bestseller.