VOICES AND THE SOUND OF DRUMS : AN IRISH BIOGRAPHY (SIGNED)

Author: Shea, Patrick
Title: VOICES AND THE SOUND OF DRUMS : AN IRISH BIOGRAPHY (SIGNED)
Publication: Belfast, Ireland: Blackstaff Press, 1981

Description: Hardcover. Octavo, 8.8 in. x 5.5 in., pp. 208. Black cloth boards with silver title to spine. Unmarked interior. Price clipped dustjacket; protected in mylar. Near FIne / Very Good Plus.

The stirring and humane autobiography of a remarkable Irishman, this book effectively challenges many current assumptions about the events of this century. As the son of a member of the Royal Irish Constabulary, Patrick Shea's boyhood was profoundly affected by the repercussions of the 1916 Rising, the Anglo-Irish War, the Civil War and the eventual transfer of power to the new Irish state. His account of those days brings the period painfully alive again, and in the process powerfully counters some less than just assessments of the men of the RIC.... Only two Catholics reached the top rank of Permanent Secretary in the Northern Ireland Civil Service: Bonaparte Wyse in the Twenties and Patrick Shea in the Seventies. Shea's scrupulous account of his career - and his fascinating sketches of top civil servants and politicians - reveal an administration far removed from the near-fascist tyranny of some recent accounts, but one where insidious discrimination was stockpiling grievances for the future. But this is more than a political history: it is an absorbing and evocative personal story. (from the front flap).

Seller ID: 100596

Subject: Irish and Ireland

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