Haughey. By Gary Murphy. Pp.716. Dublin: Gill Books. 2021. £25.99/€27.99

Another factor in his reticence to speak to researchers or journalists, as Gary Murphy notes towards the end of his exhaustive scholarly biography of Haughey, was the inevitability with which attention would turn to financial matters. After his retirement from public life information emerged about h...

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Published in:Irish Historical Studies 2022, Vol.46 (170), p.376-377
Main Author: Puirséil, Niamh
Format: Review
Language:English
Subjects:
Donations
Politics
Reviews and short notices
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Summary:Another factor in his reticence to speak to researchers or journalists, as Gary Murphy notes towards the end of his exhaustive scholarly biography of Haughey, was the inevitability with which attention would turn to financial matters. After his retirement from public life information emerged about his finances which began with revelations about donations from the businessman Ben Dunne and ended up the subject of two tribunals. The publisher's departure into poor mouth territory with references to ‘the poverty of Donnycarney’ in its publicity material are thankfully avoided in the book itself, even if the ‘two-up, two-down terrace’ mentioned in an early chapter is contradicted by the photograph of the three-bed corner house in the illustrations.
ISSN:0021-1214
2056-4139
DOI:10.1017/ihs.2022.38