Eoin O'Duffy [[electronic resource] ] : a self-made hero / / Fearghal McGarry

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910451385403321
• Autore: McGarry Fearghal
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2005
• ISBN: 1-280-75842-2; 0-19-153482-X; 1-4294-7084-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (459 p.)
• Disciplina: 941.7082/2/092; B
• Soggetti: Fascism - Ireland - History - 20th century; Revolutionaries - Ireland; Fascists - Ireland; Electronic books.; Ireland History 20th century Biography
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [412]-416) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Joy to my youth -- The best man in Ulster -- War to the death in Monaghan -- The coming man -- The flower of the young manhood of Ireland -- Preaching the gospel of national virility -- Red terror -- The Irish Mussolini -- Hoch O'Duffy! -- The third greatest man in Europe -- Ireland's quisling.
• Sommario/riassunto: Eoin O'Duffy was one of the most controversial figures of modern Irish history. A leader of the Irish revolution, and protégé; of Michael Collins, he commanded the Irish police and defence forces, before emerging as Ireland's leading fascist politician in the 1930's. A crusading moralist, obsessed with the need to counter public immorality, and a closet homosexual and alcoholic, O'Duffy's remarkable life was characterised by self-aggrandisement, fantasy, and. contradiction. - ;Eoin O'Duffy was one of the most controversial figures of modern Irish history. A guerrilla leader