Unquiet spirit
Subtitle: essays in memory of David Thornley
By: edited by Yseult Thornley.
Contributors: Thornley, Yseult
Publisher: Liberties Press; Liberties Press Ltd
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Dublin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781905483471
Subjects: Thornley, David; Politicians -- Ireland -- Biography; Broadcasters -- Ireland -- Biography
Genres: Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1.; title: Essays --; title: "That young man means what he's saying": recollections by friends and colleagues of David Thornley  -- John Bowman (editor); title: The Thornley family and Noël Browne  -- Edward Thornley; title: "An element of electoral politics intruded into his life"  -- W. E. Vaughan; title: "More passionate, more modern, and definitely more irreverent"  -- Willie H. Maxwell; title: Taking on the three biggest me in the room  -- Rodney Rice; title: The Tuairim phenomenon - a forum for challenge in 1950s Ireland  -- Miriam Hederman; title: Northern Unionist identity  -- Garret FitzGerald; title: The Christian and Catholic intellectual and the promise of David Thornley  -- Edna McDonagh; title: "He boxed lightly in the interviews but intended to land a punch": David Thornley at RTÉ, 1966-69  -- Muiris Mac Conghail; title: The Kennedy report  -- Dr. Mary Henry; title: Our lost comrade  -- Barry Desmond; title: "I was proud to call him a genuine friend of mine": a personal memoir  -- Seamus Scally; title: David Thornley in the European Parliament  -- Fionnuala Richardson; title: Dr. David Thornley, TD: an intellectual in Irish politics  -- Michael D. Higgins -- Pt. 2.; title: David Thornley's writings --; title: Ireland: the end of an era? --; title: Irish government observed --; title: The development of the Irish labour movement --; title: Patrick Pears -- -- Pt. 3.; title: Selected speeches --; title: Debate on the Department of the Taoiseach's estimate for the year 1970, 17 December 1969 --; title: Speech in debate on establishment of tribunal to investigate 7-days programme on moneylending, 16 December 1969 --; title: Debate on control of importation, sale and manufacture of contraceptives bill, 11 July 1974 --; title: Adjournment debate on Northern Ireland, 16 December 1971 --; title: Selected writings of David Thornley.