Author turns to new and often-overlooked source material for a fresh examination of the nation before independence ...

But more was to come. By 1812, the Napoleonic war had left Ireland in bad shape. Indigent Catholics and prominent Presbyterians would flock to Savannah. Established Irish merchants created a ...

Dr. O’Keeffe says that the Napoleonic Wars, from 1793 to 1815 ... “But all-brass bands first appeared in Britain and Ireland ...