Joyce had an astute understanding of government and the political system, of politicians and how they worked
Joe Joyce was one of the outstanding journalists of his generation. He twice received the national Journalist of the Year award, and his consequential reporting included revealing the ill-treatment of suspects while in Garda custody, and the unexplained alleged confessions of the Hayes family in what became known as the
Joe attended his local national school and was later a boarder at St Joseph’s College, Garbally Park, Galway, before going to University College Galway, now known as University of Galway, where he studied English, sociology and politics. In the face of republican terrorism in 1970s Ireland, one such narrative led to the government, An Garda Síochána and judicial system, turning a blind eye, at best, to allegations of ill-treatment of suspects while in Garda custody and to consequent miscarriages of justice, prompting alarm in human rights organisations, in Ireland and abroad.
In 1983 he and the then Irish Times security correspondent Peter Murtagh cowrote a book, The Boss: Charles J Haughey in Government, an acclaimed account of the 1982 Fianna Fáil government. It was described by the historian and broadcaster John Bowman as “one of the most significant books written about modern Irish politics”, and it caused a sensation and was widely read.
The years 2013 to 2015 saw the publication of his trilogy of novels – Echoland, Echobeat and Echowave – set in second World War Dublin and centred on the fictional Defence Force’s intelligence officer Lieut Paul Duggan. Returning to the wartime setting, his final novel, No Second Take, was set in Nice, a city he knew well and to which in latter years he went regularly with his wife, Frances.
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