The Anglo-Irish Agreement (AIA) signed by Garret FitzGerald and Margaret Thatcher on 15 November 1985 was unique in providing a treaty-based arrangement for the government of a territory disputed between two States. In effect it gave the Irish Government an intrusive role in the processes of the government of Northern Ireland. Sir David Goodall, formerly Deputy Head of both the Foreign and Cabinet Offices, kept a personal journal throughout the negotiations from September 1983 to December 1985. He later transformed this into a single narrative account which has until now remained under personal and official embargo. His account is gripping and frequently astonishing in its frankness. He captures the heart-stopping fluctuations in the tide of negotiation between the two sides as it tottered continuously between collapse and survival under Mrs Thatcher’s dislike and distrust of Irish nationalism. He does not hold back from recounting the sometimes-dramatic exchanges between the two sides. Even more surprising perhaps are his accounts of the internal tensions on his own side: those between the Cabinet Office and the Northern Ireland Office at political and official levels and those between the Prime Minister and her own negotiators. This is an extraordinary account by a gifted insider of an historic negotiation to rival the diary of Tom Jones (Lloyd George’s trusted adviser) of the negotiation of the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921, and also recalling other classic accounts of diplomatic negotiations that have shaped the world. The book contains a foreword by Maurice Manning (Chancellor of the National University of Ireland), and an introduction by Morwenna Lady Goodall. There are also contributions from Stephen Collins (columnist at the Irish Times), Michael Lillis (diplomatic adviser to the Taoiseach, Irish Prime Minister, Garret FitzGerald, and David Goodall’s opposite number on the Irish negotiating team), Charles Powell (Mrs. Thatcher’s influential Private Secretary during the negotiations) and Robin Renwick (foreign policy adviser to Mrs. Thatcher and British Ambassador to the USA).

The Making of the Anglo-Irish Agreement of 1985: A Memoir by David Goodall

History

Europe

Four Courts Press

Drawing on the latest research on diaries, personal correspondence, memoir reflections, newspaper reports and State archives, this collection of essays by leading scholars on Douglas Hyde and the Irish language revival traces developments in the formulation and explication of Irish revival ideology. It also interrogates pivotal aspects of the revival movement' s impact and influence as well as its interaction with the Irish diaspora and Celtic scholars in North America and Continental Europe.

Eigse: A Journal of Irish Studies: Douglas Hyde: Irish Ideology and International Impact

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

É igse is devoted to the cultivation of a wide range of research on the Irish language and its literature, embracing both textual and contextual studies. Volume 42 contains articles ranging from an edition of a medieval Irish text to modern regional dialects. Other contributions in both Irish and English, are from established and emerging scholars in Ireland and abroad.

Eigse: A Journal of Irish Studies: Volume 42 (42)

Literature & Fiction

British & Irish

My Angel will go before you

Huber, George

Rakes and ruffians: The underworld of Georgian Dublin

Walsh, John Edward

The first published collection of homilies by Monsignor Josemaria Escriva de Balaguer ranges through the Church's liturgical year. The teaching which it contains constantly reflects the connection which should exist between a Christian's mos ordinary and therefore most human interests and the tanscendence of God. 'Heaven and earth,' he says, 'seem to merge on the horizon. But where they really meet is in your hearts, when you sanctify your everyday lives.'

Christ is Passing By - Homilies

Josemaría Escrivá

On being a Christian: The Hans Küng debate

Scheffczyk, Leo

The Narrow Gate

Frederico Suárez

Religion & Spirituality

In this book, author David Isaacs, an educationalist and parent, offers ideas and suggestions on how parents and teachers can help children's all-round development. The emphasis is on character building, approached from the viewpoint of moral habits. Professor Isaacs takes twenty-four virtues and discusses how the child - at different ages - can be encouraged to be obedient, industrious, sincere, prudent, generous, optimistic, sociable, and so on. There is no book on child development quite like this.

Character building: A guide for parents and teachers

Education & Teaching

Isaacs, David

Schools & Teaching

Suarez, Federico

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