Those who serve in government, in whatever capacity, are frequently pursued to write their memoirs and some do - Garret FitzGerald, Gemma Hussey, Sean Duignan, Fergus Finlay. Now Eoin Neeson, head of the Government Information Service in the early 1970s, has produced a book of fairytales. Some may say such a format may be closer to the truth.
A prolific author, he has works on the civil war and forestry, as well as fiction and plays, to his credit. Deirdre And Other Great Stories From Celtic Mythology has just been published by Mainstream. The stories, the blurb says, are for adults and children and the only politics in it concerns the Firbolgs and Tuatha de Danaan.