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From: Pat Connors <>
Subject: [NY IRISH] Book signing tour
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 19:41:08 -0800


Author and historian Daniel McCarthy will be reading from his critically
acclaimed book, Ireland’s Banner County at the American Irish Historical
Society on Tuesday, November 11 at 6.30pm, following an address by
William Cunningham, Director of Communications for Mayor Bloomberg
(booking advised, Tel. 212 288-2263). It depicts the turbulent, dramatic
past of county Clare and its people against the national backdrop of
cultural, socio-economic, political and military upheaval on the eve of
the birth of the Irish Republic.

Very much an island county, Clare has a distinct personality and has
been synonymous with the ‘strong man’ or leader since the time of Brian
Boru. The 1890-1918 watershed era raised no shortage of leaders in the
county: from Michael Cusack, father founder of the GAA to Willie Redmond
and Colonel Martin Meaney of the Fighting 69th US regiment, from Bishop
Fogarty, the ecclesiastical champion of the new republican movement, to
Peadar Clancy and Eamon de Valera. Just prior to the Easter Rising,
Clare was described by a prominent local unionist as ‘the most Roman
Catholic county in Ireland and the most disloyal and disaffected towards
the English connection’. Still, by the end of the Great War, over five
hundred Claremen lay dead upon the killing fields of Europe. How this
and other apparent contradictions came about will be explored on the
evening by Mr. McCarthy, Director of the heritage consultancy service,
Boru Cultural Enterprises, in Ennis, County Clare.

He will also be signing copies of Ireland’s Banner County and his latest
offering, The Book of Clare, at the Albany Public Library, at 7pm on
Thursday, Nov 13 (hosted by the Irish American Heritage Museum, Tel. 518
432-6598) and at the Irish American Heritage Centre in Chicago at 8pm on
Friday, Nov 14.

My note: This was send to me by Daniel, so I don't know anything more on
the addresses, etc.

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Pat Connors, Sacramento CA
http://www.connorsgenealogy.com
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