Kevin O'Higgins: Builder of the Irish State

by John P. McCarthy

The story of the Irish state can be read in many ways. Two views, however, have dominated. One looks upon the War of Independence as the near fulfilment of the 1916 sacrificial act of national redemption, with the ultimate unification of the island remaining as the concluding chapter. The civil war was a tragic diversion attributable to either compromisers on one side or zealots on the other. A second view sees modern Irish nationhood having been...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0716534134
• ISBN13: 9780716534136
• Release Date: May 2006
• Publisher: Irish Academic Press
• Length: 312 Pages