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STORIES OF ADVENTURE & ACHIEVEMENTINVENTORS, GOLD-DIGGERS, MILITARY LEADERS, SPIES, RABBLE-ROUSERS, SOLDIERS, COURTESANS, ACE PILOTS DETECTIVES, ATHLETES, HEROESIrish people have left their mark on virtually every corner of the globe. This fascinating book tells the stories of the Irish who are justly celebrated in their adopted homelands, but virtually unknown in Ireland.William Melville from Kerry, the First Head of MI5Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty from Cork, who rescued 4,000 Jews and Allied Servicemen from the NazisJames Hoban from Kilkenny who designed The White HouseJennie Hodgers from Louth who served three years in Union Army during the American Civil War - as a manGeorge McElroy from Dublin who became one of World war I's outstanding aerial acesAnd many more ... |