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    The Ireland Series 2: Religion and War
    The Ireland Series: Book 3, All Change
    The Ireland Series Book 1: Our Roots.
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    The Story of Ireland Series

    By Brian Igoe

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    About this series

    This is the fourth in the series of LiteBite Books telling the story of Ireland. It covers the time of the Nineteenth Century, to my mind one of the most stimulating times in Ireland’s history. The Great Famine was not in itself, of course, stimulating, but it’s results were surprising. The title The Irish in America deserves a book in itself, one book at the very least. Here we just take a glimpse at the early days. The Transport Revolution with its Atmospheric Railways and its Fly Boats and its steamers and railways should have another book, while The Fenians and Parnell laid the foundation for Modern Island. This, I think, is the most exciting book in this series.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrian Igoe
    Release dateApr 13, 2013
    The Ireland Series 2: Religion and War
    The Ireland Series: Book 3, All Change
    The Ireland Series Book 1: Our Roots.

    Titles in the series (4)

    • 1

      The Ireland Series Book 1: Our Roots.
      The Ireland Series Book 1: Our Roots.

      The Ireland Series Book 1: Our Roots.

      Brian Igoe
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      This is a LiteBite Book, about the equal of fifty or so pages of a Paperback or Pocket Book. The Story of Ireland ‒ Book One. Roots. This is the first in a series of LiteBite Books telling the story of Ireland. This first Book takes us from 3000 BC to 1366 AD. The series aims to tell not just Ireland’s history, but her story. Her Music and, her Poetry and Theatre, her ancient Brehon laws. How people lived in the times of Brian Boru, what they wore and what they ate and drank.. Book 1, Roots, tells us of St Patrick and the Saints, Strongbow and Dermot McMurrough, Brian Boru and the Battle of Clontarf, the birth of the Anglo Irish and the Famine of 1316 and the Black Death and much more, culminating with the Statutes of Kilkenny which set the scene for the next two hundred years. For that, please come back to Book Two in the series shortly!

      This is a LiteBite Book, about the equal of fifty or so pages of a Paperback or Pocket Book. The Story of Ireland ‒ Book One. Roots. This is the first in a series of LiteBite Books telling the story of Ireland. This first Book takes us from 3000 BC to 1366 AD. The series aims to tell not just Ireland’s history, but her story. Her Music and, her Poetry and Theatre, her ancient Brehon laws. How people lived in the times of Brian Boru, what they wore and what they ate and drank.. Book 1, Roots, tells us of St Patrick and the Saints, Strongbow and Dermot McMurrough, Brian Boru and the Battle of Clontarf, the birth of the Anglo Irish and the Famine of 1316 and the Black Death and much more, culminating with the Statutes of Kilkenny which set the scene for the next two hundred years. For that, please come back to Book Two in the series shortly!

    • 2

      The Ireland Series 2: Religion and War
      The Ireland Series 2: Religion and War

      The Ireland Series 2: Religion and War

      Brian Igoe
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      This is the second in the series of LiteBite Books telling the story of Ireland. It takes us from 1366 to 1791, perhaps the most defining period of Ireland’s history. Book 2 looks at that extraordinary family of Fitzgeralds known as the Geraldines and sees them transformed from Normans into Irish; That sets the scene onto which bursts the most seminal event in Irish History, Henry VIII of England and his break with the Church of Rome. In itself that was no great thing, but followed as it was by the Dissolution of the Monasteries, hitherto the foundation of so much in Ireland,it led to led to Plantations, Cromwell and Transportation,the expulsion of the Irish from most of their land save Connacht, England's 'Glorious Revolution' and Dutch William as he was known, William of Orange, The Battle of the Boyne and the Flight of the Wild Geese, and the horrors of the Penal Laws.

      This is the second in the series of LiteBite Books telling the story of Ireland. It takes us from 1366 to 1791, perhaps the most defining period of Ireland’s history. Book 2 looks at that extraordinary family of Fitzgeralds known as the Geraldines and sees them transformed from Normans into Irish; That sets the scene onto which bursts the most seminal event in Irish History, Henry VIII of England and his break with the Church of Rome. In itself that was no great thing, but followed as it was by the Dissolution of the Monasteries, hitherto the foundation of so much in Ireland,it led to led to Plantations, Cromwell and Transportation,the expulsion of the Irish from most of their land save Connacht, England's 'Glorious Revolution' and Dutch William as he was known, William of Orange, The Battle of the Boyne and the Flight of the Wild Geese, and the horrors of the Penal Laws.

    • 3

      The Ireland Series: Book 3, All Change
      The Ireland Series: Book 3, All Change

      The Ireland Series: Book 3, All Change

      Brian Igoe
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      This is the third in the series of LiteBite Books telling the story of Ireland. It takes us from what was a state of virtual slavery, the misery of the Penal Laws imposed on the Irish by the Government of England after the Williamite invasion of Ireland, to virtual freedom and prosperity with the Emancipation Act won by Daniel O’Connell. Along the way we witness the genius of Grattan, the beauty of the Georgian Dublin created by Gardiners, and the excitement of the French invasion and the affair of Lord Edward Fitzgerald. This whole period, 1690 to 1847, saw the greatest change in the fortunes of the Irish since the arrival of the Normans over six hundred years earlier.

      This is the third in the series of LiteBite Books telling the story of Ireland. It takes us from what was a state of virtual slavery, the misery of the Penal Laws imposed on the Irish by the Government of England after the Williamite invasion of Ireland, to virtual freedom and prosperity with the Emancipation Act won by Daniel O’Connell. Along the way we witness the genius of Grattan, the beauty of the Georgian Dublin created by Gardiners, and the excitement of the French invasion and the affair of Lord Edward Fitzgerald. This whole period, 1690 to 1847, saw the greatest change in the fortunes of the Irish since the arrival of the Normans over six hundred years earlier.

    • 4

      The Ireland Series Book 4: 19th century
      The Ireland Series Book 4: 19th century

      The Ireland Series Book 4: 19th century

      Brian Igoe
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      This is the fourth in the series of LiteBite Books telling the story of Ireland. It covers the time of the Nineteenth Century, to my mind one of the most stimulating times in Ireland’s history. The Great Famine was not in itself, of course, stimulating, but it’s results were surprising. The title The Irish in America deserves a book in itself, one book at the very least. Here we just take a glimpse at the early days. The Transport Revolution with its Atmospheric Railways and its Fly Boats and its steamers and railways should have another book, while The Fenians and Parnell laid the foundation for Modern Island. This, I think, is the most exciting book in this series.

      This is the fourth in the series of LiteBite Books telling the story of Ireland. It covers the time of the Nineteenth Century, to my mind one of the most stimulating times in Ireland’s history. The Great Famine was not in itself, of course, stimulating, but it’s results were surprising. The title The Irish in America deserves a book in itself, one book at the very least. Here we just take a glimpse at the early days. The Transport Revolution with its Atmospheric Railways and its Fly Boats and its steamers and railways should have another book, while The Fenians and Parnell laid the foundation for Modern Island. This, I think, is the most exciting book in this series.

    Author

    Brian Igoe

    You don’t need to know much about me because I never even considered writing BOOKS until I was in my sixties. I am a retired businessman and have written more business related documents than I care to remember, so the trick for me is to try and avoid writing like that in these books…. Relevant, I suppose, is that I am Irish by birth but left Ireland when I was 35 after ten years working in Waterford. We settled in Zimbabwe and stayed there until I retired, and that gave me loads of material for books which I will try and use sometime. So far I have only written one book on Africa, “The Road to Zimbabwe”, a light hearted look at the country’s history. And there’s also a small book about adventures flying light aircraft in Africa. And now I am starting on ancient Rome, the first book being about Julius Caesar, Marcus Cato, the Conquest of Gaul, (Caesar and Cato, the Road to Empire) and the Civil War. But for most of my books so far I have gone back to my roots and written about Irish history, trying to do so as a lively, living subject rather than a recitation of battles, wars and dates. My book on O’Connell, for example, looks more at his love affair with his lovely wife Mary, for it was a most successful marriage and he never really recovered from her death; and at the part he played in the British Great Reform Bill of 1832, which more than anyone he, an Irish icon, Out of Ireland, my book on Zimbabwe starts with a 13th century Chief fighting slavers and follows a 15th century Portuguese scribe from Lisbon to Harare, going on to travel with the Pioneer Column to Fort Salisbury, and to dine with me and Mugabe and Muzenda. And nearer our own day my Flying book tells of lesser known aspects of World War 2 in which my father was Senior Controller at RAF Biggin Hill, like the story of the break out of the Scharnhorst and Gneisau, or capturing three Focke Wulfs with a searchlight. And now for my latest effort I have gone back to my education (historical and legal, with a major Roman element) and that has involved going back in more ways than one, for the research included a great deal of reading, from Caesar to Plutarch and from Adrian Goldsworthy to Rob Goodman & Jimmy Soni.

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