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5 unusual facts about Tim Pat Coogan


Catherine Coll

Tim Pat Coogan, De Valera: Long Fellow, Long Shadow (Hutchinson, 1993)

Dunmanway killings

Tim Pat Coogan, Michael Collins, Arrow Books (1991), ISBN 978-0-09-968580-7

Irish general election, 1977

Both The Irish Times and The Irish Press, which was then edited by Tim Pat Coogan, were extremely critical of the government's curtailment of freedom of speech and in particular of the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs Conor Cruise O'Brien which was used against the PIRA.

Operation Demetrius

But, as Tim Pat Coogan noted, What they did not include was a single Loyalist.

Provisional Irish Republican Army arms importation

Tim Pat Coogan wrote that assistance from the PLO largely dried up in the mid-1980s after the PLO had forged stronger links with the government of the Republic of Ireland.


Gerry McGeough

According to Tim Pat Coogan, Gerry McGeough was beaten by RUC interrogators at Cookstown barracks, Co. Tyrone in 1977, and was deported from Britain following a brief visit to London in 1978.

JFK in Ireland

The Irish Independent newspaper published two supplements based on Tubridy's research alongside input from historians Tim Pat Coogan and Diarmaid Ferriter on the day of the launch and the following day.


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