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A Traveller's Pocket History of Ireland
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This is the story of Ireland – the progress of the ancient Irish to the modern European State. Not just her History, but... More > her story. Her Music and Dance, her Poetry and Theatre, her ancient Brehon laws. How people lived in the times of Brian Boru, what they wore and what they ate and drank. It’s the story of her roads, her railways, her canals. It’s the story of her industries, her agriculture, her linen, her ship building, and her modern financial revolution. It’s the story of the Irish in America, and the trials and tribulations they faced to get there. But it’s also her history, the story of her peoples, of the Famine and the wars, of the Celts and the Norman invaders and how they blended together and eventually made that unique people with music in their souls and business in their brains, the Irish. < Less
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To Fly is Everything
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Stories about flying adventures of a father and son, the father in the RAF and the son in Zimbabwe and South Africa. Bill... More > Igoe learned to fly an aeroplane in 1934, forty years after the death of the Wright Brothers' inspiration Otto Lilienthal. And Bill’s son Brian learned to fly forty years after that, when the Concorde was around. Both shared Lilienthal’s sentiments and had a lot of fun and some stories to tell about their common addiction. These are some of the stories. < Less
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Zimbabwe
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Everyone today knows where Zimbabwe is, and has heard of the hyper-inflation there and the trials and tribulations of the... More > people, and Robert Mugabe. This is the story of the six hundred years or so which have culminated in the Republic of Zimbabwe today, 2008. Chapter 1, entitled “Zambezia”, covers the period 1390 AD to 1890,when the English arrived on the scene. Chapter 2, "The English" describes what they did. Chapter 3, "The Rhodesians" takes us from UDI in 1965 up to 1980, Where Chapter 4, “Zimbabwe”, takes us up to the end of the last millennium and beyond. I was in what may have been a unique position in that I was well acquainted and well connected with the conservative business establishment, but also very close to the corridors of political power from Independence in 1980 on. < Less
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The Story of Ireland
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This is the story of Ireland – not just her History, but her story. Her Music and Dance, her Poetry and Theatre, her... More > ancient Brehon laws. How people lived in the times of Brian Boru, what they wore and what they ate and drank. It’s the story of her roads, her railways, her canals. It’s the story of her industries, her agriculture, her linen, her ship building, and her modern financial revolution. It’s the story of the Irish in America, and the trials and tribulations they faced to get there. But it’s also her history, the story of her peoples, of the Famine and the wars, of the Celts and the Norman invaders and how they blended together and eventually made that unique people with music in their souls and business in their brains, the Irish. < Less
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The Story of Napper Tandy
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The Last Invasion of Ireland was in 1798. It was led not by a Frenchman, but a Dubliner He was born in Dublin around 1740,... More > the son of an ironmonger. He was Secretary of the Dublin branch of the United Irishmen which with Wolfe Tone he helped found and whom he then went on to represent in America for five years after they were proscribed in 1792. He played a central part in the mismanaged French ‘invasion’ of Ireland in 1798. He was the lynchpin in the events which led to the Peace of Amiens between England and France in October, 1801. He was sentenced to death by the English, but never executed, a fact which may well have denied him the martyrdom and fame which came to others like Wolfe Tone and Robert Emmett. He was a Brigadier General in the French Republican Army, and received both salary and pension as such until the day he died, August 24th.,1803, in Bordeaux. His name was Napper Tandy. < Less
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The Two Kings of Ireland e-book
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The story of Daniel O'Connell, called The Liberator and The Uncrowned King of Ireland, as told by his great friend Charles... More > Bianconi, King of the Irish Roads. The story of O'Connell is of course well known, but that of Charles Bianconi, the Italian immigrant who built up what was in his day the largest transport company in Europe, is perhaps less well known. It emerges in this book perhaps more strikingly than O'Connells. < Less
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First solo, African style
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Some of the experiences of the author Brian and his wife in their light aeroplane, a Piper 28-235 Pathfinder, in Zimbabwe... More > which was Rhodesia back then, and in South Africa. Brian's first solo was memorable because the ASI failed, and his stories start there and cover how to avoid a SAM missile, how to land when you can't see forward because there seems to be oil all over the windscreen, and various other excitements. The flying apart, the insider's view of Rhodesia and South Africa in the seventies is quite fascinating. < Less
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The Story of Napper Tandy
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The Last Invasion of Ireland was in 1798. It was led not by a Frenchman, but a Dubliner He was born in Dublin around 1740,... More > the son of an ironmonger. He was Secretary of the Dublin branch of the United Irishmen which with Wolfe Tone he helped found and whom he then went on to represent in America for five years after they were proscribed in 1792. He played a central part in the mismanaged French ‘invasion’ of Ireland in 1798. He was the lynchpin in the events which led to the Peace of Amiens between England and France in October, 1801. He was sentenced to death by the English, but never executed, a fact which may well have denied him the martyrdom and fame which came to others like Wolfe Tone and Robert Emmett. He was a Brigadier General in the French Republican Army, and received both salary and pension as such until the day he died, August 24th.,1803, in Bordeaux. His name was Napper Tandy. < Less
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The Story of Ireland
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This is the story of Ireland – not just her History, but her story. Her Music and Dance, her Poetry and Theatre, her... More > ancient Brehon laws. How people lived in the times of Brian Boru, what they wore and what they ate and drank. It’s the story of her roads, her railways, her canals. It’s the story of her industries, her agriculture, her linen, her ship building, and her modern financial revolution. It’s the story of the Irish in America, and the trials and tribulations they faced to get there. But it’s also her history, the story of her peoples, of the Famine and the wars, of the Celts and the Norman invaders and how they blended together and eventually made that unique people with music in their souls and business in their brains, the Irish. < Less
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The Two Kings of Ireland
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This is the story of the two Kings of Ireland in the 19th century, Daniel O'Connell and Charles Bianconi. O'Connell was a... More > hugely successful barrister turned politician who won for Ireland Emancipation for Catholics, while Bianconi was an Italian immigrant who built up the largest transport system in Europe in Ireland, opening the country up as never before. < Less
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About Brian Igoe

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Unless you count legal drafting, writing is for me a hobby, and something I've only taken to in retirement. I have always been passionately interested in history and in my roots, which are in Ireland, so I tend to write about Irish history. Also having spent most of my working life in Zimbabwe, I have written a book about that too, and another about flying light aircraft, another addiction. Now I have retired - that was the idea, anyhow. But I am finding this writing business a full time occupation....