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Stuart Pearson - Great Irish Heroes: Fifty Irishmen and Women Who Shaped the World - 9781784189976 - KSK0000363
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Great Irish Heroes: Fifty Irishmen and Women Who Shaped the World

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Description for Great Irish Heroes: Fifty Irishmen and Women Who Shaped the World Paperback. In this companion volume to Great Scottish Heroes, Stuart Pearson examines the lives and careers of fifty of the greatest Irishmen and women from St Columba to Brian O'Driscoll, Brian Boru to Pierce Brosnan. In doing so, he shows how this remarkable island race has contributed so much to our world, and continues to do so to this day. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; BK; HBJD1; HBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 241 x 31. Weight in Grams: 292.
How did the Irish independence movement lead directly to the invention of the modern submarine? Who was the Irish 'Queen' of Paraguay whose delusions of grandeur caused the destruction of her adopted country? Who escaped execution for participating in the Easter Rising of 1916, only to go on and be elected to the UK Parliament in London? Whose belief in reform through non-violent means became the inspiration for Mahatma Ghandi, Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King? The answers to these questions and more can be found in the pages of Great Irish Heroes, covering over a thousand years of ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
John Blake Publishing Ltd
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784189976
SKU
KSK0000363
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1

About Stuart Pearson
Stuart Pearson is the author of "Bittersweet: The Memoir of a Chinese Indonesian Family in the Twentieth Century," which was nominated for the New South Wales Premier's Prize for Literature in 2010, "Blood on the Thistle" and "Great Scottish Heroes".

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