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Author:   John M. Feehan
Publisher:   The Mercier Press
Imprint:   The Mercier Press
Weight:   0.116kg
ISBN:  

9781781178508

ISBN 10:   178117850
Pages:   130
Publication Date:   01 January 1981
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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An extract of sources: MISE EIRE by P. H. Pearse translated by John M. Feehan, MISE RAFTERI by Anotoine Reachtabhra (1670 - 1738) translated by John M. Feehan, from the paperback WITCHCRAFT IN IRELAND by Patrick Byrne, from the poems of JOYCE KILMER. The famous author of the poem TREES wrote this in memory of Joseph Plunkett executed by the British in 1916, from the paperback CEOLTA GAEL by Sean Og and Manus O Baoill, from THE POEMS OF FRANCIS LEDWIDGE. Ledwidge joined the British Army out of loyalty to his patron Lord Dunsany. He was a close friend of Daniel Corkery and I recall on one occasion Corkery saying that Ledwidge told him he should have been fighting against the British in the G.P.O. in 1916. He was killed on the Western Front in 1917. PEGGY BROWNE by the blind harpist Turlough O Carolan. From the poems of George Sigerson, from the paperback HOW TO BE A SUCCESSFUL IRISH BUSINESSMAN by Michael Keane, from CAINT AN tSEAN SAOGHAIL by Arland Ussher and many more.

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John M. Feehan was born in County Tipperary. After a number of years in the regular army he resigned to devote his life to business and literature. He founded the successful Cork-based publishing house Mercier Press in 1944. He is the author of many other books including My Village - My World and The Secret Places of the Burren. He died in 1991.

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