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The Daniel O'Connell series. Book 2: Marriage and a Duel
The Daniel O'Connell Series Book 3. The Great Reform Bill.
The Daniel O'Connell series. Book 1: Youth
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Daniel O'Connell, the Last King of Ireland Series

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This, the fourth book in the O’Connell Series, is also the last one. It describes what posterity has treated as the acme of his career when his Monster Meetings for Repeal attracted hundreds of thousands of people who all behaved perfectly peacefully and, exceptionally for Ireland, with absolute abstention from all liquor. That leads us on through prison to his death on his way to Rome..

LanguageEnglish
PublisherBrian Igoe
Release dateApr 14, 2013
The Daniel O'Connell series. Book 2: Marriage and a Duel
The Daniel O'Connell Series Book 3. The Great Reform Bill.
The Daniel O'Connell series. Book 1: Youth

Titles in the series (5)

  • The Daniel O'Connell series. Book 1: Youth

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    The Daniel O'Connell series. Book 1: Youth
    The Daniel O'Connell series. Book 1: Youth

    This is a Litebite Book, about the equal of forty or so pages of a Paperback or Pocket Book. 'The Daniel O'Connell story ‒ Book One: Youth'is the first in a series telling the story of Daniel O'Connell, called in his own day the Uncrowned King of Ireland. This first Book takes us from his birth in 1775 to 1800. It follows Daniel O’Connell from his birth and upbringing in the family of what was really a smuggler baron in Kerry at the end of the 18th century, through his education in Ireland and France to his flight thence on the day that the King went to the Guillotine.

  • The Daniel O'Connell series. Book 2: Marriage and a Duel

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    The Daniel O'Connell series. Book 2: Marriage and a Duel
    The Daniel O'Connell series. Book 2: Marriage and a Duel

    This is the second in the Daniel O’Connell series of LiteBite Books. It takes us from the end of the last book in 1800, which was the year of the Act of Union between England and Ireland, to 1828 when at the famous Clare Election he was elected to Parliament. That election was the culmination of a series of Catholic electoral victories in Ireland, but these were, one might think, Pyrrhic Victory.

  • The Daniel O'Connell Series Book 3. The Great Reform Bill.

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    The Daniel O'Connell Series Book 3. The Great Reform Bill.
    The Daniel O'Connell Series Book 3. The Great Reform Bill.

    This is the third in the series of LiteBite Books telling the story of Daniel O’Connell. It follows him from the Waterford Election to the great Clare Election where Daniel himself was elected. Thence the book looks at the run-up to the Great Reform Bill in England and the disputes in the United Kingdom House of Parliament of which Daniel was now a Member.

  • The Ireland Series Book 4: 19th century

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

    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.

  • The O'Connell Series. Book 4. Apogee & Perigee.

    The O'Connell Series. Book 4. Apogee & Perigee.
    The O'Connell Series. Book 4. Apogee & Perigee.

    This, the fourth book in the O’Connell Series, is also the last one. It describes what posterity has treated as the acme of his career when his Monster Meetings for Repeal attracted hundreds of thousands of people who all behaved perfectly peacefully and, exceptionally for Ireland, with absolute abstention from all liquor. That leads us on through prison to his death on his way to Rome..

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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