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There are American analogs at the regional level - Daley _pere_ of Chicago comes to mind - but I can’t think of any at the national. Haughey was grossly, blatantly, and egregiously corrupt, but so charismatic and so competent that he was able to carry it off for a long, long time. It’s just that there is no close comparandum to Haughey in recent American or British politics. The DeGaulle-Nixon-Long comparison is clunky, but I don’t think that’s Kieran’s fault. His own effort to pass himself off as a clueless gobshite, after a lifetime spent burnishing an image of shrewdness and authority, probably did as much to tarnish his legacy as anything the evidence showed. Called as a witness in one of these investigations Haughey tried to play the fool, claiming he didn’t remember anything. Haughey was at the center of it all, of course.

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(Joyce and Murtagh’s obituary for Haughey is “in the Guardian”.)Ī series of “legal tribunals”: in the 1990s took the lid of the whole thing, detailing the bribery and corruption that greased the wheels of Irish politics in the 1980s. Joe Joyce and Peter Murtagh’s book, “The Boss”:, a superb account of Haughey’s “GUBU”: government of 1982 is one of the few contemporary pieces of really hard-hitting investigative journalism on Haughey. By the 1980s, Haughey’s long-term extramarital affair and his ill-gotten personal wealth were open secrets, along with much else about the country that could not be said in public. Haughey played that role in Irish politics on a grand scale, to the point where he was subject to a cult of personality. Cute hoors are admired by “sneaking regarders”, those too timid to get involved themselves, but who admire the strokes he pulls to get what he wants. An important figure in the Irish mythos is the “cute hoor”: - the person who can magically bend the rules or circumvent them altogether in order to get what they want. In a brilliant article written in the early 1980s, my former advisor at UCC, Paddy O’Carroll, made an argument about the importance of local culture to Irish political style. The view of him taken by his supporters is key to understanding Haughey’s position in Irish politics. His career nearly came to an end in 1970 with the “Arms Crisis”:, but after a decade in the political wilderness he became the leader of “Fianna FÃ¡il”:¡il and, soon after, “Taoiseach”. His extravagant lifestyle became a topic of conversation, and eventually his political opponents tried to make an issue of it. He bought a Georgian mansion and an offshore island. He also became a wealthy man very fast - far wealthier, in fact, than anyone on a modest political salary could reasonably be expected to become. Haughey’s career prospered and he became minister for justice, instigating a series of important reforms of the Irish legal code, and then minister for agriculture. Haughey’s generation wanted a slice of the postwar economic boom, and they partly got it. They were in the ascendancy in the 1960s and by the end of the 1970s they were running the country. Haughey was the leading figure of a generation of Irish politicians born in the years after the foundation of the state in 1922. Essays by “Dick Walsh”:, “Geraldine Kennedy”: and “Fintan O’Toole”: span his career from its brilliant beginnings to its scandal-ridden end. The Times’ “obituary”: gives an overview of his life. If you’ve never heard of Charlie, think of him as something like a triple cross between Charles DeGaulle, Richard Nixon and Huey Long. The _Irish Times_ today calls him “the dominant and most divisive figure of the past 40 years” in Ireland. It takes place every autumn at special locations in the capital and also offers a wide-ranging supporting programme and readings on Berlin's major stages.“Charles Haughey has died”: at his home in Dublin at the age of 80. Make special plans for the International Literature Festival Berlin, the annual highlight of all literary events in Berlin. Three important traditional literature houses in Mitte, Charlottenburg and at Wannsee are at the forefront with their extensive programmes of events, but book presentations and reading courses, symposia and workshops also take place on Berlin's stages, in cafés and cultural venues. No wonder the city offers countless events where literature is presented, discussed and critically examined against socio-political backgrounds - right across all districts of Berlin. Berlin has always been a beacon and setting for literary creation beyond all borders: From the salons of Rahel Varnhagen to Fontane, Döblin, Brecht, Anna Seghers and contemporary literary figures, the long list of important writers goes on.

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