An Irish rebel secretly betrays his hunted friend to the British authorities for the price of twenty pounds in hopes of winning back his girl. But he has become an informer, the most hated of all traitors to the Irish revolutionary underworld.
The Conspiracy chronicles the monumental struggles of an innocent priest, Monsignor William McCarthy, falsely accused in 2003 of molesting two young sisters more than 23 years earlier. On the eve of his retirement from a stellar career as a priest and pastor, for the next five tortuous years, he was the victim of an anonymous complaint that was accepted as true by his bishop and friend of 40 years. Share his travails and see how ones faith can overcome the worst injustices that man can heap on a holy and totally innocent person." - Jack Kraft, Esq. Monsignor William McCarthy paints a picture embracing a situation that is almost impossible to comprehend. Had I not stood by him throughout the years of pure hell he experienced, I would not have believed the outright calumny by a detective, and how the subsequent action of his bishop and diocesan staff could have occurred. Child abuse is a terrible thing, but equally horrible is when innocent priests are unjustly condemned and destroyed by the hierarchy of their church. - Arthur N. Hoagland, M.D. This book is a must read for any Catholic who loves their Church but is concerned about its often self-destructive response to the tragedy of clerical pedophilia. It is story about tragedy and triumph. The tragedy of the Church that Monsignor McCarthy loves deeply, and into which he has selflessly devoted his entire life, but is sometimes governed by people who have lost all sense of justice. It is a Church that betrayed him. In its attempt to protect the victims of child abuse, it established a new category of victims: its faithful priests. The triumph of Monsignor McCarthy is his faith and love of Jesus, which saw him through his terrible ordeal in spite of the evil that was perpetrated against him. - Deacon Joseph Keenan
A young Irishman leaves his native Ireland for America aboard the tall ship "Master James" in 1849, and finds himself trying to survive in a very different atmosphere from that of the quiet Cork town in which he grew up. After many adventures in the western part of America and soldiering on both the Union and Confederate sides in the Civil War, he returns, by way of the British Army in Northwest India, to Ireland and the woman he had loved and left 17 years before.
Liam O'Callaghan's revelatory Blood and Thunder shows that the rise of Irish rugby is inextricable from the tensions, debates and divisions – of politics, religion and class – that have defined modern Irish history. Despite the political partition of the island, Ireland competes at rugby internationally with an all-island team – and with a bespoke anthem that nobody loves but everyone tolerates. Ireland has become a leading rugby nation despite its tiny population and the fact that the sport is only the fourth most popular team game on the island by participation. In Blood and Thunder, O’Callaghan traces the dramatic evolution whereby a rugby nation that was deeply attached to amateurism has made such a dramatic success of professionalism. From the sequence of events that led Ireland's private Catholic secondary schools to embrace rugby, to the controversies and crises that have shaken Irish rugby – including the Northern Troubles, the Belfast rape trial, and the rising toll of head injuries – Blood and Thunder tells the rich and fascinating story of Irish rugby. Blood and Thunder is more than a social and political history of Irish rugby. It is also a shadow-history of modern Ireland, rooted in brilliant original research and packed with terrific stories.
Three wildly imaginative essays by Irish satirists Jonathan Swift, Liam O'Flaherty, and Tomás Mac Síomóin. Written in three different centuries, they propose grotesque and outrageous solutions to the social problems created by the established political order, especially unemployment and austerity. These essays entertain and shock while focusing attention on those very problems.
A novel in the Irish language (there is no English language translation in the text). A tale set at sea about coming of age.Eachtra farraige Aois Fir.T garsn sna daga luatha i mbun bd seoil leis fin ar an bhfarraige mhr. T a athair agus a uncail ina bpleisteana ag a gcuid lachin ar an mbd.N haon chabhair iad.N mr don ngarsn a bheith ina fhear anois, aghaidh a thabhairt ar a chuid eagla, teacht ar a mhianach, agus i ngalar na gcs. Is gearr go mbeidh s ina oche. N mr d an bd, fin agus na fir a thabhairt sln.P hiad fin, na fir.P rud , bheith i d'fhear./Aois Fir is a sea adventure.A young boy in his early teens is on a sailing boat out at sea. His father and uncle are passed out drunk on board.They are no help.The boy must be a man now, face his fears and find what he's made of in the face of a dilemma. It will soon be night and he must bring the boat, himself and the men to safety.Whoever the men are.Whatever is is to be a man.
This book explores the contrasting responses to the South Asian diaspora in Britain of BBC local radio and BBC network radio. It highlights the hidden history of how BBC local radio stations developed a schedule of five thousand hours a year of programmes targeted at South Asian communities in England. Local radio stations at the periphery of the BBC built deep and influential connections with marginalised Asian communities, creating the BBC Asian Network in 1989 and played an influential part in building local social cohesion. This contrasts with central BBC policy that reveals a management culture resistant to change and unable to embrace an increasingly diverse Britain - creating a problematic legacy for the BBC. Finding a New British Asian Sound brings new insights into current debates around policy and institutional racism at the BBC, where South Asian programming on local and network radio remains at risk of closure.
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