The story of how the Irish team sport of Hurling is spreading like wildfire across the United States. The book examines how to play. It explores hurling's ancient legacy, early American years and what Irish America has been missing for generations. And, why today, from Orlando to Seattle, Americans are getting ?hooked? on hurling.
The story of how the Irish team sport of Hurling is spreading like wildfire across the United States. The book examines how to play. It explores hurli...
1955: in a seedy hotel in Alexandria, Egypt a sinister ex-Foreign Legionnaire shoots dead the impoverished son of an American billionaire then turns the gun on himself. Only many years later is the story behind this fatal encounter teased out of several ambiguous and unreliable sources. Reaching back to the mid-1930s it relates the odyssey of a strangely-matched quartet of travellers across a Europe descending into darkness. Whether pursuing their own, separate agendas or being stealthily manipulated by others, they leave in their wake a trail of violence and death. And the events of this...
1955: in a seedy hotel in Alexandria, Egypt a sinister ex-Foreign Legionnaire shoots dead the impoverished son of an American billionaire then turns t...
In the spring of 1914 the ominous but barely visible shadow of war is falling on Europe. Inadvertently wandering into Greece's febrile subterranean atmosphere of intrigue and espionage, Alex Cronin finds himself involved in a lethal political plot; and is presented with the chance to deflect the continent from its catastrophic course. Here finally is an opportunity to pursue his long-held ambition to emulate the achievements of his father and brother, and to make his own mark on the world. But he is set on resolving a disconcerting family enigma; and is preoccupied with his fervent love for a...
In the spring of 1914 the ominous but barely visible shadow of war is falling on Europe. Inadvertently wandering into Greece's febrile subterranean at...
