- Published: 28 September 2017
- ISBN: 9780241982310
- Imprint: Penguin eBooks
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 272
Alfie
The Life And Times Of Alfie Byrne
- Published: 28 September 2017
- ISBN: 9780241982310
- Imprint: Penguin eBooks
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 272
Hugely entertaining ... This is the first proper account of his life, and it's bolstered by White's access to Byrne's family papers
Damian Corless, Irish Independent
Trevor White brings [Alfie Byrne] vividly to life in the pages of his elegant new biography
Leo Varadkar, Sunday Independent
Peppered with delectable anecdotes ... Well researched and spryly written, this is an elegant account of one of our capital city's half-forgotten sons
John Walshe, Sunday Business Post
White has found a deliciously rich seam to mine in Alfie Byrne ... Byrne's Dublin is revived in glorious Technicolor, and with much affection. It's a lively, boisterous, contradictory, occasionally maddening place, Much like the man himself, really.
Tanya Sweeney, Irish Times
Alfie could easily have been a sentimental rags-to-riches story about the son of a docker who escaped Sean O'Casey's "long haggard corridors of rottenness and ruin" to become a minor power broker among the bankers and lawyers while living in a Dublin 6 pile. Instead, White , who admires his quarry, doesn't pull punches when it comes to describing how the career of the genial Byrne eventually lost steam.
Tom Mooney, Sunday Times
Brilliantly told ... an inimitable portrait of Dublin for the forty-two years, 1914-56, that Alfie dominated the political scene
Bridget Hourican, Cara
This enormously enjoyable biography doesn't seek to canonise Alfie, or to demonise him. It does what all good biographies should, which is simply to tell us the protagonist's true story; and it does what all great biographies should do, which is to make that story a delight to read
Irish Daily Mail
Trevor White has done today's citizenry some service in providing us with a balanced and well-researched account of the phenomenon that was Dublin's own Alfie Byrne
Tom Wall, Dublin Review of Books
Now at last this very representative Dubliner has got an ideal biographer ... amusing, instructive and insightful
Irish Catholic