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Sean Lamass: The Lost Memoir – Ronan McGreevy UK Book Launch
Irish Cultural Centre5 Black's Rd, London
Until 5 Nov
About this event
Seán Lemass was voted in 2022 as the best Taoiseach in the 100 year history of the Irish State. His status as a moderniser and visioner has endured in the 60 years since he stepped down as Taoiseach. Unbeknownst to most of his friends and colleagues, he left a memoir of his extraordinary political life which has been edited by Irish Times journalist and author Ronan McGreevy and now published for the first time. Lemass’s meeting with Northern premier Terence O’Neill was a highlight of his time in office, but in The Lost Memoir he recalls how he and British prime minister Harold Wilson heralded a new relationship between Britain and Ireland. Lemass also correctly forecast that Britain would never be a fully fledged member of the Common Market even before Ireland or the UK joined the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1973. Ronan McGreevy is an Irish Times journalist and videographer. He is the author of Wherever the Firing Line Extends: Ireland and the Western Front and editor of Centenary: Ireland Remembers 1916. His latest book Great Hatred: The Assassination of Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson MP was the Sunday Business Post history book of the year. He is a native of Co Leitrim
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