Tim Pat Coogan
And if you could put a pen in the hand of Irish history, the hand may well belong to the writer Tim Pat Coogan.听 The son of an IRA volunteer from the period of the civil war, Tim Pat Coogan has, for听 40 years, been chronicling the story of the Ireland that was created following that civil war.听 With best-selling biographies of Eamon De Valera and Michael Collins, and histories of the IRA and the the Troubles - and a dozen other titles - he is Ireland's best-known historical writer.听 And in his new book, he turns his hand to his own story in a much-awaited memoir.
