vincent quealy
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Author of "Reflections of an Irish Grandson", an authentic Irish story of family and sacrifice, Boston College alumnus, Irish history, Irish music, Irish poetry
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A story of sorrow and sacrifice, of courage and resistance, of family and devotion.
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@irelandbattles
Thanks to
@irelandbattles
for posting this comment on the ruthless and brutal reprisals carried out against civilian populations in Ireland by British Crown Forces during the Irish War of Independence. Together with the deceitful and callous remarks of high-ranking British
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@irelandbattles
Not strikingly different than what we witness in Ukraine. Today, those events of 1916 would be seen as war crimes.
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@davidcinema
"Schindler's List". It "...profoundly reveals the evilness of humanity" and also the grace and kindness of humanity. Thanks to
@davidcinema
for the question!
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@ciaranC1975
Thanks to
@ciaranC1975
for posting this. It calls to mind a wonderful quote from Alfred Lord Tennyson: "More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of."
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@irelandbattles
Steadfast, committed and courageous, as were all of his grand comrades in the Rising. The Irish quest for independence would simply not be undone. Thanks to
@irelandbattles
for posting.
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@grittyscars
or ask at your favorite bookshop
It’s an authentic Irish story. A story of sorrow and of sacrifice, of courage and of resistance, of family and of devotion.
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@grittyscars
or ask at your favorite bookshop
It’s an authentic Irish story. A story of sorrow and of sacrifice, of courage and of resistance, of family and of devotion.
#writingcommunity
#mustread
#booklovers
#book
#ReadersCommunity
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@IrishRepubIic
Fantastic photos and post, thank you for sending along! Pearse later spoke for all of those courageous rebels when he told the officers of his Court Martial that "...you cannot conquer Ireland. You cannot extinguish the Irish passion for Freedom. If our deed has not been
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@IrishRepubIic
As Pearse had earlier written in a poem for his mother:
"They shall be spoken of among their people, the generations shall remember them and call them blessed." Thanks to
@IrishRepubIic
for posting!
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@Ace_Aarons
thank you so much,
@LoukiaBorrell
and
@Maria_Savva
. I'm very appreciative that you're "following" me now.
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I recently read an article in which the author outlined a number of benefits which she believes arise from a close relationship between grandparents and grandchildren. She suggests that grandchildren who enjoy such a relationship and who are able to visit regularly with
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@CFBcampustour
Boston College Alumni Stadium! It should also be noted that BC's Alumni Stadium offers a beautiful view of downtown Boston, looking across a scenic reservoir and public parkway.
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Very happy to say that my book is now on the shelves at "O'Mahony's Booksellers" in Ennis, County Clare!
Many thanks...I do hope that your readers find it of interest!
@OMahonysBooks
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@Stairnahireann
Thanks to
@Stairnahireann
for posting this beautiful photo. My paternal grandmother emigrated to the US in 1909, departing her home and her family and her beloved Ireland--alone--from Cobh Harbor (known then as "Queenstown") onboard the SS Saxonia. It's recorded that the big
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@RobCross247
Thanks to
@RobCross247
for posting the brief story of Frederik Douglass in Ireland. I once read a brilliant quote from Douglass recalling his time in Ireland and I saved it in a "Word" document because I liked it so much:
“I have never heard any songs like those anywhere since
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@ago_clare
My paternal great-grandmother, Ellen Meade of Miltown Malbay, County Clare, was the mother of 14 children. One died at birth; one died at age 10 months; one died as a result of service in the IRA's Mid Clare Brigade, age 18; one died of effects from German Mustard Gas attack
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@Stairnahireann
Thanks to
@Stairnahireann
for posting this important reminder and story! I wrote a bit about Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa and about Pearse's eulogy at his gravesite in my new book "Reflections of an Irish Grandson...". Excerpt follows:
Tom Clarke, in the course of the discussion
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@zindaily
for constant support and encouragement
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I wanted, for many years, to discover all that I could about why my grandmother left a beloved homeland and about the struggles of the family she left behind. I set out to find that story and it is written here. It might have gone untold, a lonely chapter in an archive, dormant
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@Stairnahireann
Thanks to
@Stairnahireann
for posting this great photo! It's a spectacular drive, scenically stunning! I've made the drive a few times while vacationing in Dingle and I'm always astonished at the unspoiled beauty of this grand peninsula.
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@Stairnahireann
Thanks to
@Stairnahireann
for posting this interesting and very informative article. The dedication and commitment and defiant courage of those who would wrest Ireland from the grip of a brutal oppressor is, for me, remarkable. Terence MacSwiney is surely among them.
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@zindaily
for encouraging "...these good folks" in the writing community. I trust Zin Daily and now "follow" all on the list!
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@irelandbattles
from my new book: The British response to the rebels and to their cause was overwhelming and brought devastation to the whole of the center city of Dublin. Shops, businesses and homes were destroyed and huge fires burned throughout the downtown. The British military had
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Writing a book drew upon inspiration. I always seemed to have a new idea, a new phrase, a new addition to the story keeping me at the keyboard every day. Marketing the book, however, seems more of a job than an inspiration. So I'm grateful to Barnes & Noble in Hingham, MA (US)
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#OnThisDay
Ireland's brilliant poet, William Butler Yeats, died on January 28, 1939.
"Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy."
----------William Butler Yeats
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@ianamikagautam
or ask at your favorite bookshop
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@KevinCampSF
I’m actually fascinated to think that the struggle for a united Irish Republic remains, still today, unrealized. It’s fascinating to me because my own Irish family ancestors were deeply and courageously engaged in that struggle some 125 years ago. Think of it—125 years ago.
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@IrishRepubIic
His devotion to Ireland was, in the final analysis, rewarded and his aspirations for Ireland came to fulfillment in the coming years. His was not a death in vain.
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I’m both glad and grateful that RTE, Ireland’s national television and radio broadcaster, has published my story on the website as part of its’ series on Irish family histories. I do hope that you’ll find it to be as remarkable a story as I found it to be and that you’ll read
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Big "Thank You" to
@IrishCultureBos
! The Irish Cultural Centre of Greater Boston held it's Annual Irish Beer Fest yesterday (10/21) and I was very happy to be invited to join with a Book Signing.
@IrishCultureBos
@ICCWNE
@chaptersbooks
@AuthorNetwork
@IAN_AuthorPromo
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#OTD
(per excerpt from my new book): The Rineen Ambush is a milestone in the Irish War of Independence and, at the time of its’ occurrence on September 22, 1920, it was, according to historian Padraig Og O Ruairc, “…the largest and most successful military action against the
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@G17Esiason
As a BC alumnus and parent of three BC alum's, I'm very glad to know that you and your sister enjoyed your BC experience. I do believe, and often witness, that BC is a wonderful place and that it invites you to engage for a lifetime.
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recommendations....just "followed" all on this latest list
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#OTD
December 28: It’s on this date in 1986 that my paternal grandmother, Bridget (Meade) Quealy died. She was 98 years old. I remember her Irish accent and her Irish expressions and her stories of Ireland. And when I think of her, I wonder if some part—some measure—of each
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While my new book, "Reflections of an Irish Grandson...", recounts the hardship and the struggle, the sorrow and the sacrifice, of my Irish family ancestors during a time when Great Britain still ruled that country very harshly, it's important to remember that the Irish
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Thanks to
@MTDixonRice
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#OTD
: It was on December 6, 1921 that the Anglo-Irish Treaty was signed, ending Ireland’s War of Independence with Great Britain. It established Ireland not as a republic, but as a self-governing Dominion within “…the community of nations known as the British Empire.” And it
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I trust
@zindaily
and just "followed" everyone listed
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@irelandbattles
The courage and the dedication to Irish independence demonstrated by Tom Clarke and by his comrades in the Rising was both remarkable and inspiring. And Ireland did "win through", as Clarke had hoped, in the coming years. Thx
@irelandbattles
.
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Today's excerpt tells of my paternal grandmother, Bridget (Meade) Quealy from Miltown Malbay, County Clare, Ireland:
A young Bridget Meade arrived—alone—in Boston on June 10, 1909, no doubt anxious and unsure about what awaited her in this distant and unfamiliar land. She was
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@HooghlyReview
@UnfortunatelyLM
@GeorgeYuhasz
thank you
@Ace_Aarons
for now "following" me, much appreciated!
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@chaptersbooks
@fallon_donal
@HachetteIre
Wow, what a terrific looking event and crowd! Big Congrats to
@fallon_donal
and
@HachetteIre
!
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#theRising
Today's excerpt: The public mood, which had, at first, been angry and resentful at the rebels turned toward sympathy and admiration, even guilt at having failed to support their brave exploits, as the executions continued, day after day, through the first weeks of May
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#OTD
in 1887, Joseph Mary Plunkett was born in Dublin. The story of his devotion to the cause of a free Ireland and of his singular courage in pursuing it is remarkable both for its' sadness and for its' inspiration.
An excerpt from my new book explains:
Joe Plunkett, along
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Thank you so much for the kind mention and support, very much appreciated!
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@Stairnahireann
Thanks to
@Stairnahireann
for posting this. O’Donovan Rossa had been an early member of the secret and banned Irish Republican Brotherhood. He’d spent many years in British prisons after his capture in 1860, including periods of solitary confinement with arms shackled
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As always with
@zindaily
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As a new author, I'm certainly learning that marketing a book is hard work and also a learning curve in understanding the workings of the industry. I am working at it and learning as fast and as much as I can!
I'm very pleased to see the photo of my new book "Reflections of an
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@fhayesmccoy
@strategywoman
Always so very much enjoy my visits to the West Coast of County Clare! One such trip coming right up in June..very excited! Thanks to
@fhayesmccoy
for the photo.
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@Pagimater
"Reflections of an Irish Grandson...a story of Grandmother Bridget (Meade) Quealy and the Meade family of Miltown Malbay, County Clare, Ireland."
The Irish War of Independence came harshly to Miltown Malbay. Though Bridget Meade was now far and
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@AlanNWhelan
or ask at your favorite bookshop
It’s an authentic Irish story. A story of sorrow and of sacrifice, of courage and of resistance, of family and of devotion.
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@chaptersbooks
@Abourke3Aoife
got it right....looks like the perfect bookshop for afternoon browsing!
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@irelandbattles
Thanks to
@irelandbattles
for posting this. Ernie O’Malley was a key leader in Ireland’s War of Independence and witness to cruel and merciless reprisals taken by the British against citizens in the small town of Miltown Malbay, where my own grandparents and family were then
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@RichardAngwin
@PASchiavoni
No surprise...gun violence in the US presents a constant danger to all Americans: at the Mall, in schools, at worship etc. I find it horrifying that even the youngest schoolchildren must now practice "active shooter" drills in this country. No matter. Plenty of full-throated
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Thanks to
@Ofmooseandmen
for posting this. It's great to have creative, independent book publishers. They really are essential in discovering and promoting new and talented writers.
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@sarahmaintains
Leading with compassion, kindness and real humanity against recent anti-immigrant rhetoric and ideas are the townspeople of Miltown Malbay in County Clare. Sarah Clancy writes in today's (5/20) Irish Examiner: ..."the people of Miltown Malbay, for example, treating newcomers
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@gerry_shannon
Thanks to
@gerry_shannon
for posting and to Jack Sheehan of
@IrishTimes
for reminding of how long has been the struggle--and how many have been the sacrifices--to bring forth a united Ireland.
Jim Meade, a great-uncle of mine, served in the Mid Clare Brigade before emigrating
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@BCFootball
Thanks to
@smute1214
for posting thoughts on BC's performance today. I think this is my 800th year as a season ticket holder and watching BC football. And I feel the same way as
@smute1214
....corner turned, BC football coming back!
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"Private Patrick Meade and troops of the 52nd Engineer Battalion departed Hoboken, NJ aboard the ship “Aeolus” on June 7, 1918, bound for a fate which none of them could know and which none of them could escape."
Or ask at your favorite bookshop.
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@chaptersbooks
Looks great! Worthy of a terrific independent book shop! If I lived in Dublin, I'd surely shop
@chaptersbooks
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Many thanks to
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for including me in the list of wonderful artists and authors...very much appreciated!
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@IrelandTAL32
I'm near Boston....family from Miltown Malbay in County Clare. We visit often and always feel as if we have truly returned home.
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@Pagimater
or ask at your favorite bookshop
It’s an authentic Irish story. A story of sorrow and of sacrifice, of courage and of resistance, of family and of devotion.
#WritingCommunity
#irish
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@IrishRepubIic
Thanks to
@IrishRepubIic
for posting this quote from Padraig Pearse.
Perhaps now, more than one hundred years since Britain's Parliament imposed the Government of Ireland Act and partitioned the nation, we find another opportunity to reclaim that which is our own.
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John Quealy, my grandfather, emigrated from Ireland and arrived in Boston in June of 1910. Some years later, in completing his 1917 US Military Draft Card, he clearly indicated his loyal support for an independent Ireland and his avowed Irish Republicanism when, required to list
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@BCAlumni
@BostonCollege
No doubt about my favorite: November 20, 1993. BC wins on the road agains undefeated and
#1
ranked ND, 41-39 on "last-second" David Gordon field goal. Best.
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@KindlePromos
It’s an authentic Irish story. A story of sorrow and of sacrifice, of courage and of resistance, of family and of devotion.
#readingcommunity
#Irish
#IrishDiaspora
#Irishfreedom
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@chaptersbooks
@ArboretumGC
@RachelDoyleArb
ah, that's funny that you bring up the Irish citizenship! I do have my Irish citizenship and it's something I'm especially proud of....I visit pretty frequently, maybe 12-13 times in the last 15 years (and COVID took away 2 of those years) and I always feel like I've come home!
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@Stairnahireann
Thanks to
@Stairnahireann
for posting this excellent article on the brutality of reprisals--especially in Cork City--unleashed against Ireland's civilian population by British Crown Forces during the Irish War of Independence. Together with callous disregard among the government
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Tonight (Friday, June 23) is the last night of my most recent visit to Ireland and to the West Coast of County Clare, where my grandparents were born and lived into adulthood before emigrating to the US.
I always feel a deep sentimentality when readying to leave Ireland. The
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Just a reminder of the important Centenary Commemoration ceremony marking the the anniversary of the Rineen Ambush. The ceremony is scheduled for Sunday, September 24.
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@chaptersbooks
@SYPIreland
Thanks to
@chaptersbooks
and to
@SYPIreland
for posting this! Ireland's literary tradition is pretty spectacular, so very glad to see terrific and talented young writers still today. Independent bookstores --like Chapters--are important and helpful partners in promoting their
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@irelandbattles
@theirishstory
Casement's efforts to recruit an armed force to assist in a Rising from among Irish prisoners of war held in Germany during WW1 is a fascinating episode. While my new book is a story of the Meade family travails, it is set in the events of the day, the Rising and the War of
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@IrelandTAL32
Thanks to
@IrelandTAL32
for this sorrowful reminder.
The story of Joseph Mary Plunkett and Grace Gifford adds greatly to the collective story of all of Ireland in its’ long and difficult and often tragic history. An excerpt from my new book, "Reflections of an Irish
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@grittyscars
or ask at your favorite bookshop
It’s an authentic Irish story. A story of sorrow and of sacrifice, of courage and of resistance, of family and of devotion.
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@DKemeridou
It’s an authentic Irish story. A story of sorrow and of sacrifice, of courage and of resistance, of family and of devotion.
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@MikeCopperman
Hello
@mikecooperman
and thanks for posting this! I'm right there with ya! As an "indie" author, it's a "tough sled" to get seen or recognized. I'm not really "tired", though...just keep at it! I get a bit of energy just from the chase.
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@BostonCollege
Thanks to
@BostonCollege
for posting. Beautiful tradition, beautiful Mass today, beautiful message delivered to BC students summoning them to pursue social justice and to employ their talents and their education in the service of others. The world needs this place more than
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My paternal grandmother was Bridget (Meade) Quealy. Her parents, Peter and Ellen Meade, were tenant farmers on this small 10-acre farm in the West of County Clare, where they raised a family of 14 children. The family would come to know particular hardship and sorrow during a
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My paternal grandmother, Bridget (Meade) Quealy, was one of fourteen children born to a poor tenant farmer in the small town of Miltown Malbay in the West of County Clare. Three of Bridgets’ brothers—Joe, Peter and Jim—undertook dangerous and difficult service during the Irish
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I can surely say that, for me, it has been a rewarding and enriching experience to tell the story of my Irish family and the hardships and sorrows they endured during a time when Britain still ruled that country very harshly. It might have gone untold, a lonely chapter in an
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@IrishRepubIic
Great quote from Pearse's oration at the grave of Jeremiah O Donovan Rossa, thanks
@IrishRepubIic
for posting. Also, an excerpt from my book recounting Pearse's grand oration:
The crowd was hushed and tearful as Pearse ended his eloquent and brilliant eulogy. But it was, as
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@chaptersbooks
@MichaelRosenYes
Thank you for that suggestion on books for my grandchildren, much appreciated! I'll be sure to "follow" Michael Rosen and also to pick up a couple of his children's books! If I lived in Dublin, I'd be in your store this morning!
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Excerpt from my book, "Reflections of an Irish Grandson...": Without a personal story, however, we can read only dates, times, places, a mere recounting of facts. It is only the stories—the personal stories—of the people in those places, on those dates, at those times which make
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As an "Indie" Author, there are many platforms on which to make my book available. I'm especially glad, though, to find a platform that supports independent bookstores: . A portion of the proceeds from every sale of my book will be added to a fund which
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#onthisday
It was on October 25th, 1920 that Terence MacSwiney, Lord Mayor of Cork, died in Englands' Brixton Prison after a 74 day hunger strike. MacSwiney had been arrested on August 12th and charged with possession of "seditious articles and documents." He was quickly tried,
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@m_hauger
@PHV_Mentarch
@JessSFrankel
@IsmaelR77859620
@SempaiGreg
@PenKasha
@Saddletramp1951
@DustySciFi
@tristan_dineen
Many thanks to
@m_hauger
for including me in your circle and for the "shout-out", much appreciated!
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@zindaily
@fahmidanjournal
@M_Cobbett71
@LoukiaBorrell
@getz_page57149
@Bizarrchitec
@JagsArthurson
@EdwardHeaton9
@writingoutlook
@ColesWordsPoet
@samthezim
@EStormWrites
@xlix_g
@ELJohnson888
@AnushriNanavati
@futch_press
@RecoverySense
thanks to
@zindaily
for posting, I always have confidence in your recommendations. So, I've now "followed" everyone you listed. Glad to "follow" you all!
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"It is from people close by to events recalled here and in the following pages—from sons, grandsons, granddaughters, nieces, nephews—that I have uncovered insights which moved so many of our family to boycott rents, to resist in full the occupation of their beautiful land, to
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"...she still spoke in a very strong and a very unmistakable Irish accent. She was born to a tenant farmer in County Clare, Ireland, and lived her early life as most poor Irish Catholics did at the time: under harsh and repressive conditions of Protestant and Anglo-Irish
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#OnThisDay
November 10, 1879, Patrick Pearse was born. Pearse became one of the most important and influential figures in Irelands' struggle for independence. His bravery inspired the hearts of others and his eloquence moved a nation. An excerpt from my new book, "Reflections
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