William Francis Butler Format:Hardback\, 258pp Chairman of An Taisce

Chairman of An Taisce

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a man who revolutionized corporate life during his leadership of the largest semi-state company in Ireland in the 1980s and 1990s

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William Francis Butler Format:Hardback\, 258pp Chairman of An TaisceWilliam Francis Butler: A Lifeby Martin Ryan \n \nTipperary born, Victorian adventurer William Francis Butler is ripe for discovery at a time of changing definitions of what it means to be Irish. This fascinating biography describes an atypical Irishman, Bonapartist and O'Connellite in sympathy, who had a dazzling career in the British army. \n \nButler's life encompassed treks across Canada's prairies in the 1870s (when he founded the Mounties);