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	<description>The People Who Made Ireland</description>
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		<title>The Limbless Landlord</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 10:57:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Book has not yet been published. I expect to publish it in the summer (2011). Introduction. This is the story of Arthur MacMurrough Kavanagh, a 19th century Irish Landlord who was born with no legs or arms, and yet was an expert horseman, a first class shot, a noted yachtsman, an active local Justice [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Story of Strongbow (for Youngsters)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 16:08:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Story of  Strongbow Strongbow. A Thousand Years ago nobody in Ireland spoke anything but Irish. You probably wouldn’t understand them today, even if you were a native speaker from the far side of the Kerry mountains, but Irish was their language, and they didn’t know any other. Most people in the countryside didn’t even [...]]]></description>
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		<title>E-Books (BETA testing) NEW</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 14:28:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[E-Pub is an open source e-reader programme being increasingly widely adopted by e-book publishers. It is currently used by  Sony reader, Barnes &#38; Noble Nook, BeBook, Bookeen, COOL-ER, Hanlin eReader, Hanvon and many other ebook readers. Mobipocket software  (&#8220;Mobibook&#8221;) is currently used by Amazon Kindle, many Mobile phones,Blackberry, and some other mobile devices. I am [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Two Kings of Ireland &#8211; Chapter 7, Daniel O&#8217;Connell &#8211; Emancipation to Doneraile.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jul 2010 08:36:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Daniel O Connell]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[1828 – 1830. Charles Bianconi&#8217;s record continues - Wellington was now Prime Minister. Daniel was the newly elected Member for Clare, albeit a Member who could not take his seat. And Peel was Home Secretary again. Back in Dublin, Daniel expanded on the theme of his speech in Ennis, this time addressing the politicians rather [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Strongbow &amp; the Normans</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jun 2010 08:49:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This (and one on the same story for children) is now available as an e-book. Click here to go to our e-book page. Chapter 4. 1166 – 1366. Strongbow and the Normans. As every English student knows, in 1066 the Normans arrived in England and defeated the Saxons at the Battle of Hastings. Saxon Harold [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some Irish People &#8211; Charles Stuart Parnell</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 14:12:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Parnell, I suppose, was an aristocrat. His father was a Protestant Landowner,  descended from a family of well-to-do merchants from Cheshire who had come to Ireland 200 years previously.  A cousin was Viscount Powerscourt, descended from Sir Richard Wingfield who had been Marshall of the Queen’s Troops in Ireland 250 years earlier. The Powerscourts are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Story of Ireland &#8211; 1649  &#8211; 1658. Cromwell and Transportation.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 10:41:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thestoryofireland.com/blog/?p=234</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is now available as an e-book. Click here to go to our e-book page. My  father, not normally given to blasphemy, would often be heard to say “Oh, Crumell!”, where another might have said “Oh, Damn it”. In fact, it  was sometimes spelt that way in the 17th. century, which gives a clue as to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Story of Ireland &#8211; A Day in the Life of the Brehon Aidan.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 05:58:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the only purely fictional chapter in my &#8220;Story of Ireland&#8221; books, and was written to try and illustrate the manners and customs of the times, like what people wore and what they ate and drank&#8230;.. It was a gorgeous morning in high summer.  It was a race day today, with two more fair [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Two Kings of Ireland &#8211; Daniel O&#8217;Connell&#8217;s Salad Days.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 16:01:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Daniel and Maurice duly arrived in London, and their timing on this occasion had been excellent. The year 1793 saw Grattan’s third Catholic Relief Act, which removed most of the barriers that had existed preventing Catholic advancement. They could now be Grand Jurors, enter universities and a be appointed to an enormous range of positions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some Irish People &#8211; Brian &#8220;Boru&#8221;.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 May 2010 14:11:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brian mac Cennétig (c. 941 &#8211; 1014). 940 AD is the most generally accepted date for the birth of Brian (the ‘Boru’, or Bóruma, suffix only came later, see below). He was originally, of course, Brian mac Cennétig, Brian son of Cennétig, and his father was Cennétig mac Lorcain. He was born at Kincora, Killaloe, about twenty miles [...]]]></description>
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