| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.5

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Book Review

Europe: Early Modern and Modern

Fearghal McGarry. Eoin O'Duffy: A Self-Made Hero. New York: Oxford University Press. 2005. Pp. xvi, 442. $35.00.

Eoin O'Duffy, Irish Republican Army (IRA) general, police chief, and later leader of a semi-fascist organization usually referred to informally as "The Blueshirts," was born Owen Duffy in the Irish border county of Monaghan in 1890. He was born into a poor agrarian society polarized between Protestant and Catholic; in this Monaghan was much as was the rest of the northern province of Ulster. After partition, Monaghan was one of the three Ulster counties that went with the Irish Free State, the other six counties becoming the British province of Northern Ireland. Fearghal McGarry has written a life-and-times biography of this fascinating figure, almost forgotten for a long time until disinterred a generation ago by Maurice Manning in his classic book The Blueshirts (1972). McGarry has done an excellent job in excavating O'Duffy's life, plowing through unsorted material in archives to build up a picture of a man very much of his times and reflecting in his personality and passions the mental state of an entire revolutionary generation.

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