The book focuses on the Irish and Irish diasporal involvement in the Olympic Games. It discusses in detail the sporting involvement but, even more so, the political and national battles which accompan
Shortlisted for the Aberdare Literary Prize 2011 & International Society of Olympic Historians 2011This book sheds light on the half-known story of Irish involvement in the Olympic Games prior
This biography reveals the full significance of Robert Briscoe’s influence within the contentious political culture of the early Irish state, as well as reinforcing his importance to the global Zionis
The Hillsborough runs through Tampa, providing beauty, transportation, and commerce for a metropolitan population of about two and a half million people. But few of them have sought, or even consider
Irish immigrant brothers Michael and Thomas O’Driscoll have returned from the brutal front lines of the Civil War. Unable to adapt to life as farm laborers, they reenlist in the army and are thrown in
-- Long before the first European explorers set foot on Florida soil, numerous Native American tribes hunted, honored their gods, built burial mounds, and coexisted with one another in pockets of sett
