Activities Wise and Otherwise: The Career of Sir Henry Augustus Robinson 1898-1922 by Brendan O Donoghue - 2015

Irish Academic Press, 2015. Hardbound. New Book. Hardbound. Brendan O Donoghue presents readers with the first biography of senior civil servant Sir Henry Augustus Robinson, who served in Dublin’s Customs House in the early twentieth century while also advising British ministers on many of the days major political issues. The author has taken the twenty chapters that make up the main bulk of the text and divided them into two overlapping chronologies of his subject. Part one covers the official Robinson, his upbringing, schooling, and work as a civil servant. Part two covers Robinson’s more clandestine activities advising the British regarding the activities of Sinn Fein, the IRA, and unrest in Ireland. Distributed in the US by ISBS (2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR)