A new book charges Bill and Hillary Clinton with nepotism and political retaliation over their cherished work in Ireland, and claims the former president tried to secure a scholarship for Chelsea Clinton's boyfriend.

The book, by Trina Vargo, president of the U.S.-Ireland Alliance, portrays the Clintons as weighing in and then striking back during their effort to secure a perk, the Guardian reported.

The book, titled 'Shenanigans: the US-Ireland Relationship in Uncertain Times, accuses Bill Clinton of trying to intervene for a friend of his daughters and suggests the Clintons sought to lash out when he was denied.

According to one account by Vargo, who served as an advisor to Sen. Ted Kennedy as well as former President Clinton, the former president sought to weigh in on behalf of daughter Chelsea's then boyfriend.

Trina Vargo claims Bill Clinton sought to get a prestigious internship for his daughter's boyfriend

Bill Clinton often cites his efforts to help negotiate peace in Northern Ireland

Vargo helped establish a scholarship named for the former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, who helped negotiate the Good Friday agreement in 1998. According to the account, Mitchell told her 'with some uneasiness' about Clinton's effort to intervene.

He said on a call he was 'very unhappy' that Chelsea Clinton's then-boyfriend hadn't wound up on the short list for the prestigious scholarship, of which only a dozen were awarded, according to Vargo.

Years later, in 2007, Vargo was one of many policy experts who signed on with Barack Obama rather than Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign. Hillary Clinton, who drew fire for touting her foreign trips to Bosnia and other hot spots, tried to overstate her influence, Vargo writes.

'The tall tales just kept growing … disregard for the truth was not invented, merely taken to new heights, by Donald Trump in the 2016 campaign,' according to Vargo.

Director Steven Spielberg, producer J.J. Abrams and Trina Vargo, President of the US-Ireland Alliance attend the 8th Annual 'Oscar Wilde: Honoring The Irish In Film' Pre-Academy Awards Event at Bad Robot on February 21, 2013 in Santa Monica, California

Funding for the Mitchell scholarships got cut during the Obama administration when Hillary Clinton ran the State Department

Bill Clinton intervened in a scholarship program named after Sen. George Mitchell, according to the book

'It would be hard to believe that the timing of the president's call wasn't aimed at influencing us to make him a finalist,' Vargo wrote of Chelsea's boyfriend.

Years later, in 2012, the State Department under Hillary Clinton sought a reduction in the annual $500,000 allotment for the scholarships. Vargo claims the events were connected, although it is difficult to prove the connection.

'The elimination of funding … was not about the money,' according to Vargo.

Representatives for Bill and Hillary Clinton blasted the report and cited the Clintons' work to bring peace to Northern Ireland.

''Their legacy there is something they are incredibly proud of and one that is well documented. These accusations are baseless and patently false,' according to the statement Clinton spokesman Angel Urena and Nick Merrill made to the paper.