Judging Lemass: the measure of the man

Tom Garvin (Royal Irish Academy, E30) ISBN 9781904890577   Tom Garvin opens his introduction to this book with the truthful statement that ‘Seán Lemass is commonly seen as the architect of modern Ireland’. Regrettably, he does not acknowledge that, in current circumstances, this could earn the said architect some censure as a jerrybuilder. What Garvin ... Read more

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