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Books: The Two Kings of Ireland

By Brian Igoe

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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 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.

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I write these books because the histories of Ireland and Zimbabwe are two passions which, now that I am supposed to be retired, I have time to indulge. My object, however, is not to present dry records of events but to write light hearted ones, to make them interesting. Fact, after all, really is often stranger than fiction….

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    Irish, Whiteboys, St. omer, Bianconi, Derrynane, Catholic, Doneraile, Emancipation, Robert peel, Daniel o connell, Lord anglesey, Charles bianconi, Union, 1786, Act of union, Lombardy, Douai, Kerry, and Ireland
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    13/07/2010
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