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'A wonderful book ... a superb book and it's not just for people interested in law; it tells you a lot about Ireland' Vincent Browne, TV3The judges, the decisions, the rifts and the rivalries - the gripping inside story of the institution that has shaped Ireland.'Combines painstaking research with acute analysis and intelligence' Colm Toibin, Irish Times' Books of the Year'[Mac Cormaic] has done something unprecedented and done it with a striking maturity, balance and adroitness. He creates the intimacy necessary but never loses sight of the wider contexts; this is not just a book about legal history; it is also about social, political and cultural history ..., [the Supreme Court] has found a brilliant chronicler in Ruadhan Mac Cormaic' Diarmaid Ferriter, Professor of Modern Irish History, UCD'Mac Cormaic quite brilliantly tells the story ... balanced, perceptive and fair ... a major contribution to public understanding' Donncha O'Connell, Professor of Law, NUIG, Dublin Review of Books'Compelling ..., a remarkable story, told with great style' Irish Times'Authoritative, well-written and highly entertaining' Sunday TimesThe work of the Supreme Court is at the heart of the private and public life of the nation. Whether it's a father trying to overturn his child's adoption, a woman asserting her right to control her fertility, republicans fighting extradition, political activists demanding an equal hearing in the media, women looking to serve on juries, the state attempting to prevent a teenager ending her pregnancy, a couple challenging the tax laws, a gay man fighting his criminalization simply for being gay, a disabled young man and his mother seeking to vindicate his right to an education, the court's decisions can change lives.Now, having had unprecedented access to a vast number of sources, and conducted hundreds of interviews, including with key insiders, award-winning Irish Times journalist Ruadhan Mac Cormaic lifts the veil on the court's hidden world.The Supr
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'A wonderful book ... a superb book and it's not just for people interested in law; it tells you a lot about Ireland' Vincent Browne, TV3
'[Mac Cormaic] has done something unprecedented and done it with a striking maturity, balance and adroitness. This is not just a book about legal history; it is also about social, political and cultural history. [The Supreme Court] is a layered, complex institution, which has established, reacted, evolved, frustrated and enlightened, and it has found a brilliant chronicler in Ruadhán Mac Cormaic' Diarmaid Ferriter, Professor of Modern Irish History, UCD
'Combines painstaking research with acute analysis and intelligence' Colm Tóibín (Irish Times' Books of the Year)
'Meticulously researched and wonderfully written ... will stand the test of time' Sunday Business Post (Current Affairs Book of the Year 2016)
'The thinking, power struggles and idiosyncrasies [...] are vividly told ... Mac Cormaic manages [to tell the story] magnificently' Sunday Times
'Mac Cormaic succeeds at so many levels, but his outstanding success is in humanising an institution and its processes' Donncha O'Connell, Professor of Law, NUI Galway
'Mac Cormaic has risen admirably to the challenge ... meticulously researched ... great insights' Professor Ivana Black, TCD
'While the more bizarre tales of the learned beaks entertain, the author's real achievement lies in detailing the circumstances of ordinary people involved in the most significant constitutional cases' The Phoenix
'Revelatory ... at times it reads like a thriller' The Irish Catholic
'Erudite and compelling' The Irish Mail on Sunday
'Compelling' John Bowman (Irish Times Books of the Year)
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Ruadhán Mac Cormaic is the former Legal Affairs Correspondent and Paris Correspondent of the Irish Times. He is now the paper's Foreign Affairs Correspondent. The Supreme Court is his first book.
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- ISBN 13 9780241970331
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