Noel Browne : passionate outsider / John Horgan.
By: Horgan, John [author.]
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BookPublisher: Dublin : Gill & MacMillan, [2000]Copyright date: ©2000Description: viii, 344 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0717128091 (hardback).Subject(s): Browne, Noël C | Politicians -- Ireland -- Biography | Ireland -- Politics and government -- 1949-DDC classification: 941.7082 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 941.7082 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00086272 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
In the course of a long political career, Dr Noel Browne held public office for less than three years, as Minister for Health from 1948 to 1951. In that brief time he left an indelible mark on Irish life. His introduction of the controversial Mother and Child Scheme, which was effectively vetoed by the Catholic hierachy at the urging of Archbishop John Charles McQuaid and Bishop Michael Browne, and was then abandoned by the cabinet, was a defining moment in Irish church/state relations.
Bibliography: (pages 323-326) and index.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-322).
'Memory is the place where we live' -- The angry young man -- 'I'll only have one crack at it' -- 'Yer not going to let the doctors walk on ye, Noel?' -- Endgame -- The Fianna Fail Mother and Child Scheme -- The night of the big wind -- In labour, In vain -- The end of the affair -- 'How the hell did he get into Irish Politics?' -- Still against the tide.