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McGarry, Fearghal.
Eoin O'Duffy: A Self-Made Hero.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford;
Date of Publication: 2005
Stock Code: 11480
FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. xvi, 442. 20 black-and-white photographic images to plates. Publishers’ black cloth with gilt titles to spine in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. Spine tips lightly creased otherwise a clean bright copy with no annotation or inscriptions. Jacket a little scuffed & creased, with scratch to lower panel. A near fine copy in a very good dust-jacket. The first biography of the self-styled “third most important man in Europe” and one of the most controversial figures in modern Irish history. O’Duffy was a leader of the Revolution, follower of Michael Collins and commander of police and defence forces, who emerged as Ireland’s leading fascist politician in the 1930s. This study examines the contradictions in his remarkable life. £25.00