Secret Unity Planning Becomes Sharp Political Farce
Secret planning for Irish unity is a wonderfully combustible comic premise. Bureaucracy, diplomacy and national identity give the satire bite, making the absurdity feel pointed rather than flimsy and the political farce recognisably local. The emotion behind secret Unity Planning Becomes Sharp Political Farce is what gives it weight.
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A Nation Once Again
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Secret Unity Planning Becomes Sharp Political Farce
Secret planning for Irish unity is a wonderfully combustible comic premise. Bureaucracy, diplomacy and national identity give the satire bite, making the absurdity feel pointed rather than flimsy and the political farce recognisably local. The emotion behind secret Unity Planning Becomes Sharp Political Farce is what gives it weight.
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Can 26 + 6 ever be made to = 1?
Meet Fiach O’Bric: career diplomat, recent widower, and a man looking forward to a peaceful retirement. But just when he thinks he’s out, he is persuaded to take over a top-secret department tasked with preparing for a United Ireland — the ultimate impossible job.
Running a civil service department staffed with oddballs, timesavers and a die hard nationalist from Dundalk, Fiach finds himself refereeing endless arguments about flags, anthems, guns for gardaí, the location of the new parliament — and don’t even mention the national anthem.
Fiach can feel the hand of history on his shoulder. He suspects it may soon throttle him. Yet, against his better judgement — and all available evidence — a dangerous thought takes hold. What if he could be the one to do what Padraig Pearse, Wolfe Tone and centuries of Irish martyrs failed to do: make Ireland one, and somehow not die in the process.
Dream on, Fiach.
‘Our nation’s greatest satirist’ Irish Times
Ideal for readers who:
- Pick up Irish satire that finds comedy in committees, symbols and national headaches.
- Are intrigued by a United Ireland premise treated as both impossible job and comic engine.
- Find flags, anthems and civil-service chaos funnier when the stakes are huge.
- Make time for political fiction with bite, warmth and suspicion of grand plans.
- About The Author
- Paul Howard is a journalist, author and comedy writer best known as the creator of the No 1 bestselling Ross O'Carroll-Kelly series. He has won a record four Irish Book Awards and is a former Irish Sports Journalist of the Year and Irish Newspaper Columnist of the Year.
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- ISBN
- 9781844886906
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Sandycove, (27 August 2026)
- Number of Pages
- 368
- Weight
- 700 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 234 x 153 x 40 mm
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