Sean Lamass: The Lost Memoir – Ronan McGreevy UK Book Launch

Seán Lemass was voted in 2022 as the best Taoiseach in the 100 year history of the Irish State. His status as a moderniser and visioner has endured in the 60 years since he stepped down as Taoiseach. Unbeknownst to most of his friends and colleagues, he left a memoir of his extraordinary political life which has been edited by Irish Times journalist and author Ronan McGreevy and now published for the first time. Lemass’s meeting with Northern premier Terence O’Neill was a highlight of his time in office, but in The Lost Memoir he recalls how he and British prime minister Harold Wilson heralded a new relationship between Britain and Ireland. Lemass also correctly forecast that Britain would never be a fully fledged member of the Common Market even before Ireland or the UK joined the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1973.