This is a very opinionated sarcastic and acerbic book on Irish political figures and disparate political events from 1922 up to 1989. As the author died in 1990 it would have been interesting to know what he would have made of the events of the past two decades since the publication of his book and his opinion of the political protagonists. Every party is treated the same in this book and analysed in an equally dismissive fashion. ( )