Gabriel O'Rourke seemingly has everything: a loving wife, an adoring young son, a worthwhile job. Yet, gradually, his world slowly pulls apart, until Gabriel finds himself homeless and destitute, living out of rubbish skips on the street. Here, we follow Gabriel's journey of painstaking absolution and halting reconstruction.
Gabriel O'Rourke seemingly has everything: a loving wife, an adoring young son, a worthwhile job. Yet, gradually, his world slowly pulls apart, until ...
This extraordinary book encompasses the time period from the first Christian evangelists' arrival in Latin America to the dictators of the late twentieth century. With unsurpassed knowledge of Latin American history, John Lynch sets out to explore the reception of Christianity by native peoples and how it influenced their social and religious lives as the centuries passed. As attentive to modern times as to the colonial period, Lynch also explores the extent to which Indian religion and ancestral ways survived within the new Christian culture.
The book follows the development of...
This extraordinary book encompasses the time period from the first Christian evangelists' arrival in Latin America to the dictators of the late twe...
In more than forty years of working as an international salesman, John Lynch has lived and worked on every continent except Antarctica. He has distilled the lessons learned during that time into 170 fact-filled pages. This book is not a motivational sales book but a practical handbook telling the would be export salesperson what we do, how we do it, why we do it that way and what goes wrong when we don't.
In more than forty years of working as an international salesman, John Lynch has lived and worked on every continent except Antarctica. He has distill...
John Lynch has found his literary voice in this life story of disadvantaged soul, Billy McErlane. Having a harlot for a mother doesn't make life easy and nor does going to jail at fourteen, but when he is reunited with his childhood sweetheart peace enters Billy's heart. Then fate deals a wrecking blow. The book shows Billy through his own eyes and words as he learns to forgive, let go of the bad things in life, accept with grace the good things and finally reach out to others. It's a coming of age book that begins in tragedy and ends in hope. A bittersweet story of love, loss and one young...
John Lynch has found his literary voice in this life story of disadvantaged soul, Billy McErlane. Having a harlot for a mother doesn't make life easy ...
No-one gives Sharon a chance. Except Sharon. All she wants is a better life-a husband who takes care of her, the kind of food they have in magazines and civilized conversation. Is it her fault that she is in the middle of a plot involving two hitmen? Well, yes, actually. It is.
No-one gives Sharon a chance. Except Sharon. All she wants is a better life-a husband who takes care of her, the kind of food they have in magazines a...
The Leaving of Ireland brings together an international group of scholars to reflect critically on the unfolding nature of the experience of Irish cultural identity at a time when Ireland is struggling to adjust to the shattering impacts of globalization and religious scandals of recent decades. Looking back over the last two centuries, the volume considers a range of literary and filmic works that have sought to articulate something of this experience and its multiple locations. The essays revisit crucial constituents of Irish history and self-perception at the micro-level, exploring...
The Leaving of Ireland brings together an international group of scholars to reflect critically on the unfolding nature of the experience of Ir...
