Celtic Thugs

Celtic Thugs
Author: Matthew Smith Jr.
Publisher: Author House
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2012-12-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1477297243

It was a time in America when the Irish mob was at the peak of its power, and poverty, crime, and corruption ran rampant on the streets of the Irish slums in South Boston. One man would try to climb to the top of the world of organized crime. Follow Anthony Griffin on his journey as a young kid from the streets of Southie to his rise through the ranks of the Irish mob. Helped along the way by his friends and mob boss Sean Finn, Anthony Griffin is faced with the realities of choosing a life as a gangster. As Anthonys journey takes him down a dark path filled with violence, death, love, loyalty, and betrayal, he is in conflict with himself and with his very soul. Nar lagai Dia do lamh, lad! May God not weaken your hand, lad!

The Celtic Phoenix

The Celtic Phoenix
Author: Dennis Frantsve
Publisher:
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2004-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9780595331079

A radical cell of the IRA Provos launches a conspiracy to form a Celtic Nation comprised of the Celtic areas in Europe, plus Boston and Costa Rica. Liam Murphy sets up a base in Boston under the guise of a Celtic Cultural organization and develops a cadre of leaders throughout the Celtic areas. When the conspirators complete the organization they need to govern the Celtic areas, they start planning how they will wrest control of these areas from their respective countries. It becomes obvious that negotiations or military actions will not work. They decide that only nuclear blackmail will succeed. Iraq had secretly developed three nuclear weapons and Liam's group smuggles these weapons out of Iraq. Lacking a delivery system, the conspirators simply attach radio controlled detonators to the weapons and dump them into the sea off the coasts of France, Spain, America, and England. Once detonated, these weapons would cause immense tidal waves wreaking havoc for several miles inland. Federal Agent Angelo Spaziani is tasked with preventing this disaster.

Night on the Water

Night on the Water
Author: Christopher Church
Publisher: Dagmar Miura
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2020-06-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1951130332

A chance encounter on an airplane with the woolly academic Rovski leads psychic investigator Mason onto a college campus, where he works to figure out why math professor Emily is hassling the guy. As he digs into the mystery, his psychic mentor Hanh instructs him to connect with his client in the dream world. Mason works to get lucid in his dreams and struggles to understand the symbolism and the meaning of his experiences in that realm, and how it intersects waking life. It soon becomes clear that he’s seeing things that other people don’t, and the plucky redhead has to grapple with the classic psychic’s dilemma: how to relate paranormal experiences back to mundane reality. His boyfriend, Ned, and their roommate, Peggy, help Mason keep his feet on the ground, and old friend Gilbert shows up in ways that transcend helpful and dive into annoying. As Rovski gets more rattled by Emily’s behavior, Mason gets closer to the truth, chasing his quarry on his trusty bicycle, sailing across a mountain lake in the dead of night, and ultimately unfolding a hidden part of reality.

Murder, Mutiny & Mayhem

Murder, Mutiny & Mayhem
Author: Joe O'Shea
Publisher: The O'Brien Press
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2012-10-04
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1847175317

The Blackest-Hearted Villains from Irish History The Irish are celebrated at home and abroad as explorers, freedom fighters and great writers and artists, but for every Tom Crean, Bernardo O'Higgins or James Joyce, there is a Hugh Gough, Antoine Walsh or Luke Ryan. This book is about the Irish slavers, grave-robbers, duellists, conmen, drug-lords and killers who wreaked havoc around the world ... Includes Beauchamp Bagenal from Carlow, an eighteenth-century duellist, hell-raiser, heart-breaker Burke & Hare grave-robbers turned murderers who supplied cadavers to the medical schools of nineteenth-century Edinburgh Antoine Walsh from Kilkenny who amassed huge fortunes in the French slave trade Luke Ryan, a pirate & buccaneer born in Rush in 1750 Sir Hugh Gough, a Limerick man who commanded the British troops in the first Opium war against China James 'Sligo' Jameson who was rumoured to have fallen into madness and cannibalism in the Congo in 1888 ... and many more!

Flight from the Celtic Twilight

Flight from the Celtic Twilight
Author: Des Hickey
Publisher:
Total Pages: 276
Release: 1973
Genre: Actors, Irish
ISBN:

Irish-born playrights, directors and actors reminisce about their careers.

Alan Rickman: The Unauthorised Biography

Alan Rickman: The Unauthorised Biography
Author: Maureen Paton
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2012-05-31
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1448132649

In this revised and updated biography, Maureen Paton encompasses the private, professional and political life of this most enigmatic, charismatic and intensely private of actors.

The Eternal Paddy

The Eternal Paddy
Author: Michael de Nie
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2004-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780299186647

All about Skin features twenty-seven stories by women writers of color whose short fiction has earned them a range of honors, including John Simon Guggenheim Fellowships, the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, the Flannery O'Connor Award, and inclusion in the Best American Short Stories and O. Henry anthologies.The prose in this multicultural anthology addresses such themes as racial prejudice, media portrayal of beauty, and family relationships and spans genres from the comic and the surreal to startling realism. It demonstrates the power and range of some of the most exciting women writing short fiction today. The stories are by American writers Aracelis Gonzalez Asendorf, Jacqueline Bishop, Glendaliz Camacho, Learkana Chong, Jennine Capo Crucet, Ramola D., Patricia Engel, Amina Gautier, Manjula Menon, ZZ Packer, Princess Joy L. Perry, Toni Margarita Plummer, Emily Raboteau, Ivelisse Rodriguez, Metta Sama, Joshunda Sanders, Renee Simms, Mecca Jamilah Sullivan, Hope Wabuke, and Ashley Young; Nigerian writers Unoma Azuah and Chinelo Okparanta; and Chinese writer Xu Xi. Best Books for General Audiences, selected by the American Association of School Librarians Best Books for General Audiences, selected by the Public Library Reviewers "

Celtic Mythology: History of Celts, Religion, Archeological Finds, Legends & Myths

Celtic Mythology: History of Celts, Religion, Archeological Finds, Legends & Myths
Author: J. A. MacCulloch
Publisher: e-artnow
Total Pages: 1306
Release: 2020-12-17
Genre: Social Science
ISBN:

This meticulously edited collection present the mythology, religion, history and the legacy of Celts. Contents: Introduction: Earliest References Golden Age of the Celts Alliances with the Greeks The Era of Alexander the Great The Sack of Rome Celtic Place-names in Europe Early Celtic Art Celts and Germans Downfall of the Celtic Empire Unique Historical Position of Ireland The Celtic Character Cæsar's Account Strabo on the Celts Polybius Diodorus Ammianus Marcellinus What Europe Owes to the Celt Religion: The Religion of the Celts The Gods of Gaul and the Continental Celts The Irish Mythological Cycle The Tuatha dé Danann The Gods of the Brythons The Cúchulainn Cycle The Fionn Saga Gods and Men The Cult of the Dead Primitive Nature Worship River and Well Worship Tree and Plant Worship Animal Worship Cosmogony Sacrifice, Prayer, and Divination Tabu Festivals Accessories of Cult The Druids Magic The State of the Dead Rebirth and Transmigration Elysium The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries Myths: Mythic Powers of the Gods Myths of Origins The Irish Invasion Myths The Early Milesian Kings Tales of the Ultonian Cycle Tales of the Ossianic Cycle The Voyage of Maeldūn Myths and Tales of the Cymry The Mabinogion

Martin the Magnificent - The Future of Irish Football

Martin the Magnificent - The Future of Irish Football
Author: Simon Moss
Publisher: Kings Road Publishing
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2014-08-07
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 178418182X

'A GOOD, DETAILED ACCOUNT OF THE MAN WHO COMES ACROSS AS A COMPLEX, ECCENTRIC AND DRIVEN CHARACTER' - THE TIMESIn November 2013, Martin O'Neill was appointed manager of the Republic of Ireland's national football team, with Roy Keane as his assistant manager. For Ireland, and for football itself, the coming together of these two legends is a dream combination.Martin O'Neill is one of the most brilliant, successful and intriguing of the new managers to emerge from British football. This new and revised edition of Simon Moss's acclaimed biography brings O'Neill's story right up to date, offering a rare insight into the beliefs, lifestyle and ambitions of this private and complex football man.A talented midfielder who played for Nottingham Forest and then Manchester City in between spells at Norwich, O'Neill captained Northern Ireland in the 1982 World Cup - the first Roman Catholic to do so - when his side reached the quarter-finals, famously beating the hosts, Spain, on the way. Ending his playing career in 1985, his managerial stock grew with the years; under his tutelage, Leicester City went from under-achieving first-division outfit to League Cup winners. However, it was at Celtic that O'Neill was to enjoy his most trophy-laden years, winning an unprecedented treble in his first season before narrowly missing out on UEFA Cup glory a year later. Having left Celtic, his 'spiritual home', to care for his wife as she battled cancer, he returned to football in 2006, first with Aston Villa and then, less happily, with Sunderland. Then came the call from Ireland . . .For any football fan, this is the definitive biography of the man known during his Celtic days as 'Martin the Magnificent'.'AN ABSORBING READ, THOROUGHLY RESEARCHED, ENTERTAININGLY WRITTEN' - BELFAST TELEGRAPH

Tales of Gilarn

Tales of Gilarn
Author: A. A. Jason
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 189
Release: 2017-11-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 154340524X

Gilarn, along with Zoe, begins hunting a criminal. But when that criminal goes to another planet, Zoe returns home, and Gilarn is joined by another Tigras by the name of Malcolm. With them following the criminal to a world in the early years of the Industrial Era (so no electricity), they also get involved in a war that starts on the planet and manage to capture the one they are after and a list of charges to what he is already facing.