Tim Pat Coogan
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Timothy Patrick Coogan is an Irish historian, broadcaster, newspaper columnist and formerly editor of the Irish Press newspaper.
Coogan, son of a Volunteer of the Old IRA (1919-1922), is a former student of Blackrock College in Dublin, and has written controversial but popular books such as The IRA, Ireland Since the Rising, On the Blanket, Michael Collins and Eamon de Valera.
His biography of Eamon de Valera proved the most controversial, taking issue with the former Irish president's reputation and achievements, in favor of those of Collins, whom he regards as indispensable to the creation of the new State.
His books are written from a nationalist perspective. Coogan blames the Troubles in Northern Ireland on Paisleyism.
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External link
- THE GREEN BOOK — chapter from The IRA, Coogan's book on the Irish Republican Army