This is a brand new personal and anecdotal autobiography by the former Taoiseach Garret Fitzgerald - still a regular commentator in print and broadcast media. Now in his mid-eighties, this memoir speaks candidly of his family life and his experience and estimation of the many national and international figures he has encountered through his long career. In Just Garret, Dr FitzGerald writes frankly about his upbringing, his parents' involvement in the Independence movement and their disagreements about the Treaty, his early years in school and college and his gradual entry into politics. He reflects honestly on his time as minister for Foreign Affairs, and later as Taoiseach. The book includes new material and opinion on key figures such as Charles Haughey, Margaret Thatcher and John Major as well as the emerging peace in Northern Ireland and his role in how it came about. Ireland's role in the EU and Garret's advocacy in the referendas on the European Union also feature. The key importance of his family life and the huge influence his wife Joan had on his career reveal a more informal and humorous person who is still a compelling voice in Irish public affairs.
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'...In this new autobiography he [Garret] writes frankly and often movingly...' --Cahir O'Doherty, Irish Voice
What s new are some more personal insights and a more detailed description of the childhood that made him the enthusiastic, uncynical 84-year-old he is...What a memory. What a life. --Olivia O'Leary, The Irish Times
What s new are some more personal insights and a more detailed description of the childhood that made him the enthusiastic, uncynical 84-year-old he is...What a memory. What a life. --Olivia O'Leary, The Irish Times
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Garret FitzGerald is in his mid-eighties but is nonetheless still extremely active, on both the public-speaking circuit and in his capacity as a board member of several major public and private organizations and as chancellor of the National University of Ireland. Dr FitzGerald, who studied economics and law and taught political economy in UCD, is a columnist for the Irish Times and a regular contributor to journals and political magazines.
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Whoever made sure that this book was called "Just Garret" was a genius because it sums up Dr Fitzgerald in a nutshell. Whilst not everyone will agree with his political stances nobody can come away from interacting with him without having your mind stretched! Yet what makes this book a real treasure is the mix of viewpoints and the man. Hence you leave reading this book thinking that was "Just Garret"
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This book is likely to be of interest to those who love and admire Garret Fitzgerald.
It outlines in great and easy to read detail the events of a long and distinguished career.
The book is, however, dangerously misleading for historians and anybody else looking to obtain an accurate account of events in the years spanning Fitzgerald's political career.
The book is seriously flawed because it contains no chapter on corruption. Indeed, the word `corruption' does not even appear in the index.
Garret Fitzgerald's career ran parallel with and was intimately intertwined with that of Charles Haughey, the most corrupt politician in modern Irish history.
Haughey's corruption inflicted enormous damage on Ireland and its people and was the major contributing factor in the creation of the corrupt culture that led, ultimately, to the loss of Ireland's economic sovereignty.
To write an account of this period without once mentioning the disease that has destroyed Ireland is akin to Winston Churchill writing about his life without mentioning the Second World War.
As I said, a nice book for those who admire Garret Fitzgerald but a flawed pedigree for historians and researchers.
It outlines in great and easy to read detail the events of a long and distinguished career.
The book is, however, dangerously misleading for historians and anybody else looking to obtain an accurate account of events in the years spanning Fitzgerald's political career.
The book is seriously flawed because it contains no chapter on corruption. Indeed, the word `corruption' does not even appear in the index.
Garret Fitzgerald's career ran parallel with and was intimately intertwined with that of Charles Haughey, the most corrupt politician in modern Irish history.
Haughey's corruption inflicted enormous damage on Ireland and its people and was the major contributing factor in the creation of the corrupt culture that led, ultimately, to the loss of Ireland's economic sovereignty.
To write an account of this period without once mentioning the disease that has destroyed Ireland is akin to Winston Churchill writing about his life without mentioning the Second World War.
As I said, a nice book for those who admire Garret Fitzgerald but a flawed pedigree for historians and researchers.
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