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A Novella and six short stories.
The title story is a novella and follows two young men on the trail of a 9th century monk at the monastic of Killamery who claimed to have travelled to another parallel universe where he was married. The Abbot is not impressed.
The Kyiv War Museum: the attendant is the image of Putin. Who is this man?
An Invasion is Announced takes us back to Emergency, the period of WW2 in Ireland. One day in 1940 word came down to Clonmel that a German invasion was expected the following day – which would be the monthly Fair Day. What to do?
The Strange Case of Timmy O’Neill: A teenager decides to ignore the legends and swim across Bay Lough – only to be dragged under. But by whom? and where to?
Butter: Two young ladies find a novel way around butter rationing during WW2
Mikey: He grows up a no-hoper but dancing a jig to some pan-pipes players in the street leads him to Lake Titicaca high in the Andes where he finds the answer to his ‘severe communication disorder’.
The Reluctant Informer just wants to do his civic duty but to his horror is branded an informer.
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This book takes an overview of the life of Edward Conor Marshall OBrien, born in 1880, grandson of William Smith O’Brien of the Young Ireland Movement in the mid 1800s.
A keen sailor, in 1922 he designed his own Yacht Saoirse and had it built in the Baltimore Fisheries School in West Cork. It was in this yacht that he undertook his ground-breaking circumnavigation of the globe 20th June 1923 to 20th June 1925. He was the first person ever in a small private yacht to circumnavigate West to East and south of Cape of Good Hope, south of Australia and south of Cape Horn. The Clipper route, southern ocean all the way.
This short booklet gives an overview of Conor’s intriguing life with especial focus on the circumnavigation.
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As an Irish Secular Priest and Missionary in New Zealand, Michael Kickham experienced discrimination. Michael and 17 other seculars petitioned Pope Leo XIII about this.
He was reprimanded by Bishop Grimes for his expressed nationalist views.
Following acrimonious correspondence with the Bishop, he got permission to serve in Australia.
He returned to Ireland in 1899. In 1901 he departed for an undisclosed destination. His parting words to his sister were: “Goodbye Kit. It may be for years and it may be forever”. In 1907 the family discovered by chance that he was in Buenos Aires, no longer a priest. He died there in 1909.
The book is based on numerous letters, contemporaneous newspaper articles and extensive research.
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