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The Great Betrayal
John Drennan
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Description for The Great Betrayal
Paperback. No Irish government has ever enjoyed a larger majority, but equally, no administration has ever so comprehensively squandered its mandate. From penalty points to water charges, funding cuts to tax hikes, The Great Betrayal is a cutting assessment of the upheavals, egos and scraps that helped this most unlikely of scenarios came to pass. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; JPH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 225 x 24. Weight in Grams: 394. 8vo Very good copy
As the curtain falls on the 31st Dáil, the government have fallen drastically out of favour, something that is hard to believe if we cast our minds back just a few years to 2011 when they rode a wave of populist sentiment all the way to Dáil Eireann. No Irish government has ever enjoyed a larger majority – and none has ever so comprehensively squandered its mandate. How did they fall so far so fast?
Written with the unique insight of one of the most original observers of Irish politics, The Great Betrayal provides an entertaining and enlightening ... Read more
The Great Betrayal is required reading for anyone wondering how it all went wrong and where we might go from here.
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Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Gill & Macmillan Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Dublin, Ireland
ISBN
9780717168750
SKU
KEX0277081
Shipping Time
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About John Drennan
For two decades, John Drennan was the most feared scribe in Leinster House. Some politicians loved him, most hated him, but all agreed that he was the wiliest, the most accurate, the most independent and the most sagacious chronicler of the Dá il soap-opera. Then, in a move that stunned the political establishment, he left Ireland’s largest newspaper, The ... Read more
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