{"product_id":"gary-murphy-brian-cowen-2026","title":"Gary Murphy: Brian Cowen [2026]","description":"An insightful, searing and clear-eyed account of Taoiseach Brian Cowen and his\u003cbr\u003etime as leader of the country during Ireland''s greatest crisis\u003cbr\u003eFrom the author of the bestselling Haughey, Gary Murphy returns w ith a major\u003cbr\u003ereassessment of Ireland''s most turbulent political era. In this richly textured\u003cbr\u003eaccount of Brian Cow en''s inexorable rise to the office of Taoiseach and his dramatic\u003cbr\u003efall, Murphy offers a ground-breaking portrait of a man and an era that defined\u003cbr\u003emodern Ireland. This rigorously researched study examines the decisions,\u003cbr\u003epressures and circumstances that shaped Brian Cow en''s 1,036 days as Taoiseach,\u003cbr\u003ea period that coincided w ith the collapse of Ireland''s banking system and the\u003cbr\u003estate''s entry into an EU-IMF programme.\u003cbr\u003eDraw ing on extensive interview s, documentation and contemporaneous accounts,\u003cbr\u003eMurphy explores the context surrounding the bank guarantee, the loss of economic\u003cbr\u003eautonomy and the path that led to external intervention. Balanced, detailed and\u003cbr\u003eaccessible, this book offers a comprehensive analysis of how government,\u003cbr\u003einstitutions and global forces interacted during a crisis that transformed modern\u003cbr\u003eIreland.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGary Murphy is Professor of Politics at Dublin City University. He has w ritten\u003cbr\u003eextensively on the politics of modern Ireland and is the author or co-author of eight\u003cbr\u003ebooks and dozens of articles and book chapters. He appears regularly in the Irish\u003cbr\u003emedia and is currently a columnist w ith the Sunday Times. In 2021 he published\u003cbr\u003eHaughey, a cradle to grave biography of another former Fianna Fáil leader, and\u003cbr\u003eTaoiseach, Charles J. Haughey.","brand":"Murphy, Gary","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":54062915453267,"sku":"9781804186800","price":24.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/murphy-gary-gary-murphy-brian-cowen-2026-9781804186800-1245632404.jpg?v=1782132550","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.com\/products\/gary-murphy-brian-cowen-2026","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}