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Despite being a much liked figure in Ireland Tim Pat Coogan is not taken seriously as a historian by anyone here at all.
by scandox 2y ago
Despite being a much liked figure in Ireland Tim Pat Coogan is not taken seriously as a historian by anyone here at all.
- piltdownman 2y agoExcept by your Secretary of State, who Schumer petitioned to get Coogan his visa for academic touring when it was strangely denied by the Dublin Embassy. He is also a hero solely based on the defamation case he lost raised by Ruth Dudley Edwards, where he (correctly) posited that Ruth had 'grovelled to and hypocritically ingratiated herself with the English establishment to further her writing career'.
- donall 2y agoI'm aware that he has his detractors. I'm not a Coogan apologist! I'm just saying that the book covers the Malthusian angle well enough and it cites sources. The genocide angle is controversial to some but 90% of the book is straightforward fact.