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In the last decade there has been a plethora of books about Irish
soldiers in the First World War, yet the fact that recruitment to
the British forces continued into the interwar period and the
Second World War has received comparatively little attention.
Steven O'Connor's work addresses this gap by providing a
much-needed assessment of officer recruitment to the British
military after Irish independence. Based on archival research, oral
testimony and a database of 1,000 officers it examines the reasons
why young Irish people took the king's commission. It explores
their subsequent experiences and identity in the forces, and places
them within the wider context of Commonwealth recruitment to the
British forces. Drawing on evidence from police reports, debates in
town councils and local newspapers this volume also offers the
first comprehensive account of reactions in independent Ireland to
British recruitment and the shared military past.
Irish Officers in the British forces, 1922-45 looks at the reasons
why young Irish people took the king's commission, including the
family tradition, the school influence and the employment motive.
It explores their subsequent experiences in the forces and the
responses in independent Ireland to the continuation of this
British military connection.
In mid-nineteenth-century New York, vagrant youth, both orphans and
runaways, filled the streets. For years the city had been sweeping
these children into prisons or almshouses, but in 1853 the young
minister Charles Loring Brace proposed a radical solution to the
problem by creating the Children's Aid Society, an organization
that fought to provide homeless children with shelter, education,
and, for many, a new family in the country. Combining a biography
of Brace with firsthand accounts of orphans, Stephen O'Connor here
tells of the orphan trains that, between 1854 and 1929, spirited
away some 250,000 destitute children to rural homes in every one of
the forty-eight contiguous states.
A powerful blend of history, biography, and adventure, Orphans
Trains remains the definitive work on this little-known episode in
American history.
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Magnus (Paperback)
Stephen O'Connor
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An epic, adventurous tale of a family of genetically enhanced human
beings, with one member deciding on becoming a vigilante in order
to combat the rising level of crime in Brisbane City. Steven
Lockyer embarks on starting a vigilante crusade with the backing of
his aunt Stefani Lockyer. He assumes the identity of Omega Magnus.
Along the way he deals with mercenaries, a secret organisation, a
benefactor and a outrageous political cult. Along the way, he deals
with keeping his family together, and he eventually and
unexpectedly finds love. The first Volume in this epic series of
Omega Magnus and his family, and their adventures and perils in an
action-adventure series.
STEPHEN O'CONNOR IS ONE OF TODAY'S MOST GIFTED AND ORIGINAL
WRITERS. In "Here Comes Another Lesson, "O'Connor, whose stories
have appeared in "The New Yorker, Conjunctions, "and many other
places, fearlessly depicts a world that no longer quite makes
sense. Ranging from the wildly inventive to the vividly realistic,
these brilliant stories offer tender portraits of idealists who
cannot live according to their own ideals and of lovers baffled by
the realities of love.
The story lines are unforgettable: A son is followed home from work
by his dead father. God instructs a professor of atheism to
disseminate updated Commandments. The Minotaur is awakened to his
own humanity by the computer-game-playing "new girl" who has been
brought to him for supper. A recently returned veteran longs for
the utterly ordinary life he led as a husband and father before
being sent to Iraq. An ornithologist, forewarned by a cormorant of
the exact minute of his death, struggles to remain alert to beauty
and joy.
As playful as it is lyrical, "Here Comes Another Lesson "celebrates
human hopefulness and laments a sane and gentle world that cannot
exist.
Putting a human face on dire statistics about inner-city schools,
Stephen O'Connor describes how his junior high school
students--struggling to make sense of lives touched by violence,
poverty, and broken families--discovered their own voices by
writing and performing two plays.
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