Independent Review
Innovator who refused to take ‘no’ for an answer
The legacy of a singular man who helped transform the nation as a member of the first generation of ‘Free Irishmen” is set out in a fine new book…
14/02/2019
19/05/2018
Limerick Leader Review
He did this state a great service
New biography on the legendary Brendan O’Regan (1917-2008) should be compulsary reading for all our politicians and all those aspiring to high office in the public service and state and semi-state agencies.
Norma Prendiville for Limerick Leader
12/05/2018
Irish Times (Magazine)
Book is both a history of the economic development of the mid-West as well as a biography
During my interviews with the late T.K. Whitaker, the objectives of his visionary blue-print Economic Development published in 1958 were, as he told me, mainly taken on board, not by private industry as might be expected, but “by a group of genuine entrepreneurs who regarded what they were asked to do as a privilege and who never betrayed that trust”.
Anne Chambers for Irish Times The Ticket Magazine
14/07/2018
Irish Examiner (Newspaper)
IRELAND’S TOP SALESMAN
‘He did as much to modernise Ireland as Sean Lemass’ says Ryle Dwyer
Ryle Dwyer
16/04/2020
Studies, An Irish Quarterly Review
Throughout the entire reading of this book, I was particularly struck by the extraordinary energy and goal-driven focus of Brendan O’Regan, a man who might have ended up as a good and attentive but ultimately forgettable country solicitor (an early consideration of his), but who instead became and remains a very memorable man of Clare, who has left a remarkable legacy for his home county and for his country in a least three distinct and apparently unrelated fields.
James Sexton
19/05/2018
Limerick Post Review
The Man who made Shannon a success is brought to book
Tom McCullough
18/06/2020
St Vincent de Paul Magazine, SVP Bulletin
A Life Long Influence
Does experience as a young member of the Society help to form ones thinking on social issues and influence one’s response to these issues in later life?