- Hardcover: 416 pages
- Publisher: Hodder Headline Ireland; illustrated edition edition (13 Oct 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0340832967
- ISBN-13: 978-0340832967
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 16 x 4.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,000,319 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Having spent thirty-five years committed to Irish politics, Ruairi Quinn has now written about his own journey - a journey that has taken him to the heights of power as Labour's first ever Minister for Finance and Leader of the Labour Party. From his days as a student radical, Ruairi captures the events that have taken Ireland into the twenty-first century - the economic and political crises of the 1980s, the fall of the Iron Curtain and the rise of the EU. A new decade saw the revolutionary presidential election of Mary Robinson, the birth of the euro and the emergence of the Celtic Tiger and Ireland's dramatic economic success. Victories, defeats, triumphs and betrayals are all revealed as his career coincides with the remarkable social and economic transformation of Ireland. In his straight-talking, no-nonsense style, Ruairi Quinn offers a unique insider's view into the cut and thrust of Irish political life. "Straight Left" is an honest, revealing and engrossing account of the great highs and bitter lows of political life from one of Ireland's best known and influential political voices.
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Born in Dublin in 1946, Ruairi Quinn qualified as an architect before standing for election in 1973. He has had a number of high-profile positions in various cabinets (Minister of Labour 1984-87, Minister of Finance 1994-97) and was Leader of the Labour Party from 1997 to 2002. He has three children. Malachi and Sine from his first marriage and Conan from his second.
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An excellent guide to the inner workings of Irish politics,
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This review is from: Straight Left (Hardcover)
This is an excellent book, and a wonderful guide to the inner workings of Irish Government.Verbatim accounts of Cabinet meetings have always been restricted in Ireland, but Quinn recounts many anecdotes direct from meetings in the 1980s and 1990s. There are also some interesting insights into the internal struggles in the Labour Party and Quinn's opinion of many of the figures involved in Irish politics over the years. Well worth a read, and a certainty for the Irish best-sellers list.
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