Brendan Halligan’s books – listed below – are now available in paperback edition from Amazon and most good online book shops and in Kindle and all popular eBook formats. You can use the links below to purchase online, or just order one (through Ingram) at your favourite local book shop.
Brendan Halligan’s first book, Our Worst Preference, is a collection of writings that draws mainly from papers and an article written about Ireland’s Single Transferable Vote system (STV), spanning some 30 years. Each chapter examines how the Irish system of Proportional Representation (PR), the Single Transferable Vote, is riddled with defects and is the main cause of a dysfunctional political system. Reform of the political system in general, and of the electoral system in particular has been a life-long preoccupation for the author.
Our Worst Preference is a 142-page book published by Scáthán Press, Dublin.The title is currently available online in paperback, Kindle and eBook formats and you may also order it directly from any bookshop around the world.
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Wonder, Wisdom and WarStudying Early Irish Culture and language as a mature student, Brendan Halligan wrote a series of studies on the subject. While primarily an academic text, the author’s style is accessible and engaging, and covers four main themes: the beginnings of writing in Old Irish; an examination of the old Irish “Wisdom texts,” or advice on the appropriate mores and ethics of the old Gaelic hierarchy; status in early Irish society with particular attention paid to its “hierarchial, inegalitarian and artistocratic” nature; and finally an examination of the controversy over dating The Ulster Cycle.
Wonder Wisdom and War is a 192-page paperback published by Scáthán Press, Dublin. The title is currently available online in paperback, Kindle and eBook formats and you may also order it directly from any bookshop around the world.
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This book was published following a seminar on the life and times of Brendan Corish that was held in the historic Beggars Bush Barracks, Dublin in March 2006. Held to mark the presentation of the former Labour leader’s papers to the Irish Labour History Museum, the event featured speakers who were prominent in Irish public life during Brendan Corish’s political carer in the 1960s and 1970s and knew him personally. The warmth and high regard in which Corish was held by his peers is evident as their respective contributions to the proceedings, presented in this book, deliver a striking portrait of the much-admired Labour leader.
The Brendan Corish Seminar Proceedings is a limited edition title available only from this website. To inquire about receiving a copy, kindly write to us here, referencing “Brendan Corish Seminar Book”.
