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Tim Pat Coogan

Biography

Tim Pat Coogan

Tim Pat Coogan is Ireland's best known historian and the author of numerous important works on Irish history, including MICHAEL COLLINS AND THE IRA, published to wide acclaim. The former editor of The Irish Press, he lives in Dublin, Ireland.

Tim Pat Coogan

Books by Tim Pat Coogan

The Famine Plot: England's Role in Ireland's Greatest Tragedy
by Tim Pat Coogan - History, Nonfiction

During a Biblical seven years in the middle of the 19th century, Ireland experienced the worst disaster a nation could suffer. Fully a quarter of its citizens either perished from starvation or emigrated. In this grand, sweeping narrative, Ireland''s best-known historian, Tim Pat Coogan, gives a fresh and comprehensive account of one of the darkest chapters in world history.