An officer and a revolutionary gentleman

From: The Boston Globe | Date: July 5, 1998| Author: Terry Golway | Copyright information

CITIZEN LORD The Life of Edward Fitzgerald, Irish Revolutionary By Stella Tillyard. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 337 pp. Illustrated. $30. Terry Golway is the author of "Irish Rebel," a biography of the Irish-American revolutionary John Devoy, and "The Irish in America."

It is one of those ironies that one is tempted to describe as wonderfully Irish, except that upon reflection the description adds nothing and the irony speaks for itself. On May 22, all Ireland -- north and south, Protest...

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