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The Reluctant Taoiseach: A biography of John A. Costello

David McCullagh, in the preface to this delightful new biography, tells us how, often on his ramblings about the national parliament doing his day-job of RTÉ political correspondent, he promised that Costello portrait that he would finally get a shift on and finish this book.

Much later in this handsome tome, McCullagh tells us of the arrangements to have that same portrait, which adorns the cover of this book, painted.