Big Fellow, Long Fellow : A Joint Biography of Collins and De Valera

This is the first joint biography of the two major figures in the making of the modern Irish state.

These two contrasting figures, one destined to die, the other a long-lived patriarch, complemented and contrasted with each other in the making of the Irish revolution.

This book traces their different backgrounds, upbringings and temperaments in a fascinating counterpoint.

Among the reviews of the hardback edition: "T. Ryle Dwyer has had a good idea here. Collins and de Valera bestrode...twentieth-century Ireland like twin adversarial colossi, and much has been written about them.

Until now, however, no-one ventured to capture their inimical, if inextricable, relationship in one book.

This result is fascinating." - John Boland 'The Times'.