Excerpted with permission from The Twelve Apostles: Michael Collins, the Squad, and Ireland’s Fight for Freedom by Tim Pat Coogan. It is my contention that Michael Collins was one of the most ...
History: The Twelve Apostles, Tim Pat Coogan, Head of Zeus, hdbk, 352 pages, €22.99 Michael Collins and Kevin O'Higgins at Arthur Griffith's Tim Pat Coogan's new book puts some factual flesh on the ...
The official birthday of the United States of America is July 4, 1776, the date on the Declaration of Independence. The Republic of Ireland, because of its troubled colonial status, does not have an ...
Michael Collins’ assassination squad was nicknamed – for reasons of fine Irish irony – The Twelve Apostles. With the help of their fictional 13th member, young Eoin Kavanagh, author Dermot McEvoy ...
The Twelve Apostles is a rambling, well-worn and uncritical narrative of selected aspects of the War of Independence and Civil War by Tim Pat Coogan, whom the dust jacket fairly describes as Ireland's ...
WHILE there is not much new material in Tim Pat Coogan’s latest book, The Twelve Apostles, he does have some interesting insights on his interviews with people involved in the story, and he throws ...