Book review: The Lives of Daniel Binchy: Irish Scholar, Diplomat, Public Intellectual

Daniel Binchy, Ireland’s ambassador to the Weimer Republic, once described Adolf Hitler as a ‘harmless lunatic’ but one of the country’s most perceptive and insightful intellectuals was not fooled for long, as Ryle Dwyer notes.

Sat, 04 Jun, 2016 - 01:00

Review: Ryle Dwyer

Tom Garvin

Irish Academic Press, €22.50

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Courts Arts Film & TV Books Daniel Binchy Place: Ireland Place: Charleville, Co Cork Place: Clongowes Place: Ratisbon Place: Munich Place: Germany Place: Weimar Republic Place: Berlin Place: England Place: Britain Place: America Place: United States Person: Daniel Binchy Person: Adolf Hitler Person: Ryle Dwyer Person: Tom Garvin Person: DANIEL ANTHONY BINCHY Person: John Higgins Person: Higgins Person: President Michael D Higgins Person: DanielBinchyIrelandsFirstAmbassadorToGermany_large.jpg Person: Binchy Person: Maeve Binchy Person: Joseph P Walshe Person: Walshe Person: Hitler Person: Joe Walshe Person: Charles Bewley Person: DAN BREEN Person: Tom McEllistrim Person: DanBreen1967_large.jpg Person: Ben Briscoe Person: Breen Person: Garvin Person: Fuhrer Person: Paul von Hindenburg Event: Civil War Event: 1932 Presidential election Organisation: Irish Academic Press Organisation: Germany Organisation: republicans Organisation: Irish Government Organisation: Nazis Organisation: Fianna Fáil

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