Great Irish Heroes features biographies of some of Ireland’s most famous heroes. It also includes some of the lesser-known but equally brave and heroic characters in our history.
Designed to inform and entertain both the new reader and the well-read, it features fascinating short biographies of each of the heroes. Included in the book are: Frank Aiken, Michael Davitt, Constance Markievicz, Charles Stewart Parnell, Mary Aikenhead, Eamon de Valera, Catherine McCauley, Patrick Pearse, Brian Boru, Robert Emmet, John McCormack, John Redmond, Robert Boyle, James Gandon, Henry Joy McCracken, Patrick Sarsfield, Dan Breen, Betsy Grey, Fionn Mac Cumhail, St Brendan, Edmund Burke, Henry Grattan, Brian Merriman, St Brigid, Roger Casement, Augusta Gregory, Fr John Murphy, St Colum Cille, Thomas Clarke, Catherine Hayes, Nano Nagle, St Patrick, Michael Collins, Douglas Hyde, Daniel O’Connell, Brian Stoker, James Connolly, Alice Kyelter, Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa, Jonathan Swift, Cúchulainn, Liam Lynch, Grace O’Malley, Matt Talbot, Thomas Davis, Maeve of Connacht, Hugh O’Neill, Theobald Wolfe Tone.
