Kevin C Kearns

Broschiertes Buch

Legendary 'Lugs' Branigan

Beschreibung

James Christopher 'Lugs' Branigan was a garda who became a legend in his own lifetime. An advocate of tough justice, he was a law unto himself. Indeed, 'he had the scars to show he earned the undisputed reputation as the country's toughest and bravest cop'.

Autor

Kevin C. Kearns, Ph.D., is a social historian and Professor Emeritus at the University of Northern Colorado. He has made over 40 research trips to Ireland, a number of which were funded by the National Geographic Society. Of his ten books on Dublin, five have been bestsellers, most notably Dublin Tenement Life: An Oral History which was number one on The Irish Times bestseller list for many weeks. He is the author of Dublin Voices: An Oral Folk History, Stoneybatter: Dublin's Inner Urban Village, Ireland's Arctic Siege: The Big Freeze of 1947 and The Bombing of Dublin's North Strand: The Untold Story. His latest book, Lugs Branigan: Ireland's Most Famed Garda, was published in September 2014.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Gill
• Seitenzahl: 380
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. September 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 225mm x 154mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 621g
• ISBN-13: 9780717168293
• ISBN-10: 0717168298
• Artikelnr.: 42794384