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Tim Pat Coogan returns to the United States - iconic figure in Irish journalism who had been denied a visa (IrishCentral)

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 05:03:30 PDT

Consul General Noel Kilkenny, Jean Kennedy Smith and Tim Pat Coogan at Coogan’s launch party on Friday night (Photo by James Higgins)Tim Pat Coogan is an iconic figure in Irish journalism and a well known historian He has had a long absence from this side of the Atlantic, but made a welcome appearance around New York last weekChances are you have read his definitive works on Eamon de Valera or Michael Collins, but his new book on the Great Hunger entitled 'The Famine Plot' may be his best yet, laying out in scalding terms the British government’s responsibility for Europe’s greatest tragedy before the Holocaust READ MORE

Author Tim Pat Coogan to lecture at Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum at Quinnipiac (IrishCentral)

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 05:36:57 PDT

By: JANE WALSH

Tim Pat Coogan, the Irish historical writer and author of “The Famine Plot,” will lecture and sign books at Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum at Quinnipiac University.

Exclusive Interview with Tim Pat Coogan - A policy of ethnic cleansing? Who’s to blame for the Irish Famine? (IrishCentral)

Fri, 07 Dec 2012 09:30:52 PST

By: CAHIR O'DOHERTY

How, in a nation brimming with crops and surrounded on all sides by teeming seas, could the Irish people have starved in their millions in the middle of the 19th century?

Proving the Irish Famine was genocide by the British -- Tim Pat Coogan moves Famine history on to a new plane (IrishCentral)

Tue, 04 Dec 2012 04:16:35 PST

The Famine memorial on the quays in Dublin CityThe most significant section of Tim Pat Coogan’s new book on the Irish Famine is not his own writing, but his printing of the United Nations definition of genocide“The Famine Plot”, published by Palgrave MacMillan, was released in America last week and Coogan should have been here to launch it but in a separate but equally confounding plot he was denied a visa to come here by the American Embassy in DublinThe conclusion from his book is unmistakable Ireland’s most prominent historian, who has previously created definitive portraits of both Michael Collins and Eamon De Valera, has now pointed the finger squarely at the British during the Famine and stated it was genocide READ MORE

Tim Pat Coogan slams American Embassy as ‘Kafkaesque’ after visa refusal - Responds to Ambassador Rooney statement that rules were followed (IrishCentral)

Sat, 01 Dec 2012 04:31:27 PST

Tim Pat CooganWriter and historian Tim Pat Coogan has slammed the US Embassy in Dublin as “Kafkaesque” in their dealing with Irish citizens when they apply for visasCoogan’s comments come after U READ MORE

Diplomats gone wild at U.S. Embassy in Dublin say concerned Irish -- Horror stories about how Irish are treated after famed author Tim Pat Coogan refused (IrishCentral)

Fri, 30 Nov 2012 04:31:20 PST

Hillary ClintonSince the Tim Pat Coogan story broke here, I have heard numerous horror stories about the American Embassy in Dublin and how it is treating Irish applicants for visas to the United StatesAs we know, famed author and historian Tim Pat Coogan was treated incredibly poorly and denied a visa for his US book tour until Irish American pressure and New York Senator Chuck Schumer reversed the decision READ MORE

United States visa ban on Tim Pat Coogan removed after Senator Schumer steps in (IrishCentral)

Wed, 28 Nov 2012 04:16:40 PST

By: NIALL O'DOWD

Irish author Tim Pat Coogan has received a ten year non-immigrant visa to come to the U.S. after New York Senator Chuck Schumer directly intervened with the U.S. State Department.

Barring of writer Tim Pat Coogan from U.S. is an absolute disgrace - America’s greatest friend in Ireland insulted by the U.S. Embassy (IrishCentral)

Sat, 24 Nov 2012 04:31:55 PST

Tim Pat CooganThe barring of Tim Pat Coogan from coming to America for a book tour is disgraceful He was refused a visa when he applied for one for his new book tourIt is one in a clear pattern of a number of recent clueless decisions at the American Embassy in Dublin at the consular level that defy logicRead More: Famed historian Tim Pat Coogan confirms he was turned down twice for U READ MORE

Famed historian Tim Pat Coogan confirms he was turned down twice for U.S. visa (IrishCentral)

Thu, 22 Nov 2012 04:24:38 PST

By: NIALL O'DOWD

Historian Tim Pat Coogan has stated that he was turned down twice for a visa in recent months by the American Embassy in Dublin and never received a proper explanation.

Tim Pat Coogan book tour canceled after visa refusal (IrishCentral)

Wed, 21 Nov 2012 04:44:07 PST

By: NIALL O'DOWD

Best selling author and historian Tim Pat Coogan has been forced to cancel a book tour in the U.S. for his new book 'The Famine Plot' about how the British government mishandled the Famine.

Tim Pat Coogan Coffee Table Books (IrishCentral)

Sun, 08 Mar 2009 09:55:56 PDT

By: TOM DEIGNAN

Two coffee-table-style books from Tim Pat Coogan (along with George Morrison for the latter), "1916: Easter Rising" ($29.95, 192 pages, Seven Dials) and "The Irish Civil War" ($24.95, 287 pages, Sterling) save these dramatic events from dry historical prose, while offering dramatic photos, documents and personal accounts. READ MORE