Joe O'Shea

Murder, Mutiny & Mayhem (eBook, ePUB)

The Blackest-Hearted Villains from Irish History

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Irish are often thought of as a nation of missionaries, explorers, freedom fighters, artists and writers. But for every Tom Crean or Bernardo O’Higgins, there is a Captain William Cotter or Antoine Walsh causing mayhem around the world. This dramatic book explores the most obscure and unbelievable stories of the Irish who wreaked havoc from Rio de Janeiro to China - from slaves and mercenaries to drug lords and killers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: The O'Brien Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781847175311
• Artikelnr.: 38355938

Autorenporträt

Joe O'Shea is a journalist and broadcaster, originally from Cork but living and working in Dublin. He has been writing for a range of national newspapers and broadcast media since he was 19-years-of age, first as a news reporter and then as a feature writer and columnist. He has also devised and presented TV programmes. Joe has had a passion for history from a very young age. However, being raised on the stories of the great saints, missionaries, freedom fighters and politicians of the Irish diaspora, he was always fascinated by the dark side of Irish history, the Irish men and women who didn't cover themselves in glory, the thieves, traitors, pirates, pimps, mercenaries, killers, slavers and madmen. In researching this book, he has discovered the forgotten stories of the inglorious Irish who laid waste to empires, transported countless thousands (including, in some cases, their own countrymen) into slavery and indulged in every vice and debased, evil impulse known to man. And he is a little envious.