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Up Every Tree: The Bumper Book of Bertie
Martyn Turner
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Description for Up Every Tree: The Bumper Book of Bertie
Hardcover. 8vo. Very good Copy. First edition.Politics and politicians in 20th century Ireland..
When Bertie Ahern decided to appoint Ray Burke to his cabinet, being a cautious and wise Taoiseach, he checked up every tree in North Dublin to see if there was any reason he shouldn't do so. If he had checked with the dogs in the street or the accounts in the banks he might have got a clearer picture. "Up Every Tree" is Martyn Turner's tribute to the (almost) ten years of stewardship by the man Charles Haughey described as the "most devious, the most cunning of them all" - a description our Taoiseach has done everything in his power ... Read more
When Bertie Ahern decided to appoint Ray Burke to his cabinet, being a cautious and wise Taoiseach, he checked up every tree in North Dublin to see if there was any reason he shouldn't do so. If he had checked with the dogs in the street or the accounts in the banks he might have got a clearer picture. "Up Every Tree" is Martyn Turner's tribute to the (almost) ten years of stewardship by the man Charles Haughey described as the "most devious, the most cunning of them all" - a description our Taoiseach has done everything in his power ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Gill & Macmillan Ltd
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
188
Place of Publication
Dublin, Ireland
ISBN
9780717141586
SKU
KEX0310164
Shipping Time
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About Martyn Turner
Martyn Turner has been contributing cartoons to The Irish Times since 1971. He was going to stop but his family bought him a pencil sharpener for Christmas and waste not, want not. This is his seventeenth book, following on previous Gill & Macmillan bestsellers The Guy Who Won the Tour de France and Martyn Turner's Greatest Hits.
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