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This comprehensive title examines Mary McAleese’s background and upbringing, her time at Queen’s University, her controversial period in RTÉ, and the road to the presidency.     Recounts Mary McAleese’s family’s personal experience of the troubles, including the night their house was riddled with bullets. Provides the ‘inside story’ of the president and her husband’s work in the Peace Process, and Martin McAleese’s behind-the-scenes work with the loyalist community.    Reveals fascinating facts about Áras an Uachtaráin and its occupants, and includes an overview of the seven previous presidents and an analysis of what the presidency means.    Fully illustrated with memorabilia and presidential photographs.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49532016951569,"sku":"GOR001830693","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50316616794385,"sku":"GOR013924534","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50732283068689,"sku":"GOR007799320","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1847170870.jpg?v=1751155293"},{"product_id":"while-justice-slept-book-patsy-mcgarry-9781905785049","title":"While Justice Slept","description":"It was one of the most notorious miscarriages of justice in the history of this State, yet there has never been an inquiry into how an innocent man signed a confession to one of the biggest mail train robberies in Ireland and was kept in jail by the Courts despite \"exhausting the appellate jurisdiction\", as a Chief Justice put it. Though in a 1992 presidential pardon, Nicky Kelly was described as being as innocent as though never charged in relation to the 1978 Sallins mail train robbery, the Gardai's conduct of its investigation in the case has never been explained; nor has that of a judiciary which sentenced him to 12 years penal servitude and kept him in jail, despite appeal after appeal, until there was political intervention. Nicky Kelly was failed at every turn by the justice agencies of this State. In an age when the most powerful democracy in the world has shown scant regard for basic justice rights, it is timely to ask: where are the mechanisms in Ireland to prevent a possible repeat of the Nicky Kelly case? In \"Free Nicky Kelly\", \"Irish Times\" journalist Patsy McGarry talks to those who actually took part in the mail train robbery; gives an inside account by Nicky Kelly of what took place after his arrest, including his time on the run in Europe, Canada and the US; relates his return to Ireland and to jail, his prolonged hunger strike and the campaign which led to his release, his eventual pardon and compensation by the State; describes Nicky's own international campaign on behalf of the Guildford Four and Birmingham Six; and raises the unanswered questions as to how it all could have happened. In \"Free Nicky Kelly\", 30 years later, the full story of this miscarriage of justice can finally be told. This is a fascinating look at what can happen when a democratic state and some of its most important institutions - its Government, its judiciary, its intelligence services and police - panic before a perceived threat and then fail in upholding the basic principles of a democratic society. 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In Well, Holy God, he looks back not only on his time in journalism, recalling some of the most distressing stories he has had to cover, but also his own history with Catholicism and of a faith lost when the stark realities of being part of that Church became apparent to him.This book covers the gamut of his career, from the horrors of the various clerical child sex abuse cases, the vilification of Bishop Eamonn Casey and the muted reaction the Church of Ireland to the violence at Drumcree, to the role of women in the Catholic Church and the tragedies of the Mother and Baby Homes and the Magdalene laundries. Alongside accounts of such seismic events, there are lighter anecdotes, including the perils of travelling with a pope, some characters he' s met along the way and a look at the good that those with a true calling can do. Well, Holy God is a memoir brimming with personality, charting the highs and lows of a truly fascinating career.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50514557927697,"sku":"GOR013980920","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51409760354577,"sku":"GOR014262842","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":52111070560529,"sku":"NGR9781785374968","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52460450971921,"sku":"GOR014530017","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ LIKE_NEW \/ SBYB","offer_id":52885711159569,"sku":"CIN1785374966LN","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1785374966.jpg?v=1751444585"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/collections\/author-books-by-patsy-mcgarry.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}