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In Bed with the Blueshirts
Shane Ross
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Description for In Bed with the Blueshirts
Paperback.
The definitive inside account of the 2016-20 coalition government.
Cabinet minister Shane Ross reveals the bitter internal battles fought with the old Blueshirts, the crises when the coalition came close to collapse and the sometimes fraught personal relationships between the fifteen figures who made up the last government.
He recounts how a group of Independents risked everything to form a government that was expected to last for only months but which ran for more than four years, under two Taoisigh with utterly different styles. With great humour and charm, Ross unveils the skulduggery, the secret deals, the drama ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2020
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781838952914
SKU
9781838952914
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About Shane Ross
Shane Ross was born in Dublin, educated at St Stephen's School Dundrum, Rugby School in England and Trinity College Dublin. He has been a stockbroker, a journalist, a politician and an author. He wrote the number-one bestseller The Bankers and co-authored, with journalist Nick Webb, Wasters and The Untouchables. Shane was Business Editor of the Sunday Independent for over sixteen ... Read more
Reviews for In Bed with the Blueshirts
In the small anecdotes and pen pictures, he achieves what a most skilled diarist should - subtle illustration of the momentous through the seemingly trivial. And, of course, it is all highly entertaining...As Irish political memoirs go, Ross sets a new high bar here.
Irish Mail on Sunday
[E]ntertaining, honest and truly reflective. Shane Ross has shone a ... Read more
Irish Mail on Sunday
[E]ntertaining, honest and truly reflective. Shane Ross has shone a ... Read more