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Against The Tide

af Noël Christopher Browne

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Now accepted as a classic of its genre, Noel Browne's autobiography traces his life from deprived childhood to political eminence. Arguably the most controversial politician since independence, Browne writes with passion and conviction.
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    Clann na Poblachta af Eithne Macdermott (thegeneral)
    thegeneral: A thorough analysis of Clann na Poblachta and an explanation of Browne's part in it.
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    Noel Browne: Passionate Outsider af John Horgan (thegeneral)
    thegeneral: Horgan gives a fair and unbiased analysis of Browne's life in this very well-written biography.
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    Health, Medicine and Politics in Ireland 1900-1970 af Ruth Barrington (thegeneral)
    thegeneral: Barrington's book is an excellent discussion of how Ireland's health policy changed from 1900-70 both pre and post independence and how it evolved with the changing of successive Governments. The period of the 1947 Health Bill, Browne's tenure and the Mother and Child Scheme are analysed in detail.… (mere)
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In my opinion this is the most ascerbic biography I have ever read. Undoubtedly other readers will also find the chapters on Browne's childhood and education extremely moving, however, his commentary on former political colleagues and adversaries is extermely vicious and, some would say, vindictive. The image of Browne as a sort of Irish messiah or prophet dissecting the woes of Irish society does not square with other histories of the situation. The picture on the back-cover of Browne contained within a cross raises more questions than answers. Readers of this book should follow this by reading John Horgan's excellent Noel Browne: Passionate Outsider. ( )
  thegeneral | Sep 10, 2006 |
"Mr. de Valera was, without doubt a fervent Catholic. But he always managed to keep firm independence of episcopal or clerical control. Also during his days in Government he had complete control of his Cabinet..........But then, he never had to deal , as Mr. Costello had, with a Minister of Health, not from his own party, who was young (only thirty two as I have already noted), when he became Minister on his first day in the Dail in 1948), energetic, filled with a genuine concern and compassion for the underprivileged, but politically immature and in some respects naive.

"He was immature and naive in ignoring the political process of ensuring the support of his Cabinet colleagues. He antagonised the leader of his own party, Sean MacBride, on other issues than the Health Bill. The savage portraits he paints in 'Against the Tide' of some of his cabinet confreres, while masterly in their satire, are not in accordance with reality, and anyway, while having these views of these men, it is hard to conceive how he could win their support when the chips were down.

"Here I might interject a comment on his delineation of some other people in his book. His description of Bishop Browne of Galway, while marvellous in its phraseology, seemed to me when I read it as not being true to the bishops character at all. ....... And his housekeeper has written to the newspapers: 'The Bishop never smoked cigarettes rolled in Bond Street or any other street. He only smoked a pipe. Also he did not drink champagne or any kind of spirits. I should know the truth because I worked for the Bishop for nearly forty years'."

"Dr McQuaid is pictured as a severe Torquemada-like cleric. In public he did often present a cold exterior and he was not a person I would choose to go on holidays with. But as regards compassion and concern for the underprivileged, in groups or as individuals, he was supreme. Unfortunately, his extraordinary kindness has not been adequately recorded in history.

"I feel sorry for Willie Norton's relations. I did not know him but those who knew him well are pained by Dr Browne's description of him. I also was very upset by his description of David Thornley in his last days. I knew David well and had a great affection for him. A brilliant scholar, it was a pity he ever left the Groves of Academe for politics. I think Dr Browne should not have written so savagely about him.

These portraits and others diminish the sympathy one should have for Dr Browne and his own sorrows and tribulations. But they do help us to understand how he could antagonise his colleagues if his later portraiture of then reveals his attitude towards them. He became isolated from those whose support he would have to rely on."

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"The great fault of Dr Browne is that he has allowed compassion (a truly genuine compassion, let me repeat) to be all-consuming and over-selective in his approach. I believe every person, wealthy or poor, sick or healthy, is very dear to Almighty God and that we must temper condemnation of anyone with a profound sense of our own inadequacies and even a compassion for those who in our opinion have caused injury to others. "Love your enemies" is a difficult commandment but it is the only sure basis for peace in our troubled world.

"Finally, I would urge Dr Browne to continue to write in the autumn of his life. He has a felicity of style which is wholly admirable and all too rare. If he could allow the sense of humour which he only very fleetingly displays in this book to emerge more abundantly and if he were to cogitate on the criticism often levelled at Marxist socialists - that by loving humanity as a whole they come to love individuals less - then what he comes to write could be a very worth-while addition to Irish literature."
 
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