STORIES OF ADVENTURE & ACHIEVEMENT



INVENTORS, GOLD-DIGGERS, MILITARY LEADERS, SPIES, RABBLE-ROUSERS, SOLDIERS, COURTESANS, ACE PILOTS DETECTIVES, ATHLETES, HEROES



Irish people have left their mark on virtually every corner of the globe. This fascinating book tells the stories of the Irish who are justly celebrated in their adopted homelands, but virtually unknown in Ireland.





William Melville from Kerry, the First Head of MI5
Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty from Cork, who rescued 4,000 Jews and Allied Servicemen from the Nazis
James Hoban from Kilkenny who designed The White House
Jennie Hodgers from Louth who served three years in Union Army during the American Civil War - as a man
George McElroy from Dublin who became one of World war I's outstanding aerial aces


And many more ...