Soldiering Against Subversion
Автор: Dan Harvey
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During a time of high tension, terror and fear, the Irish Defence Forces faced the very real threat of the Irish State being plunged into a savagely sectarian civil war. The southern state faced a breakdown of law and order, severely challenged by manhunts, prison breaks, shoot-outs, kidnappings, bank robberies, subversive training camps, bomb-making factories, illegal weapons shipments, and border operations. Soldiering Against Subversion is the dramatic and previously untold story of the Irish Defence Forces’ critical role in defending the southern state against paramilitary forces during the worse years of the modern Troubles. Retired Lieutenant Colonel, Dan Harvey, describes the major operations via in-depth interviews with Irish Defence veterans, revealing how these brave men and women protected the state on home soil. From the kidnapping of Shergar and Quinsworth CEO Don Tidey, the manhunt and capture of INLA leader Dessie ‘the Border Fox’ O’Hare, the pandemonium as the Irish army quells a violent prison riot in Mountjoy in 1972, to the Irish navy’s efforts to thwart gun-running off the coast of Kerry, these first-hand accounts reveal the true story of the fight for the nation’s democracy.
Misfit to Maven
Автор: Ebonie Allard
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A practical and inspiring book for misfit business rebels. Misfit to Maven is more sex, drugs and misadventure than other business books – reminding us all how extraordinary we can be, it will leave you inspired and ready to build a life as extraordinary as you are, that feels as good on the inside as it looks from the outside. Misfit to Maven tells Ebonie Allard’s story – from feeling ARGH about business and life to feeling AHHH about it all. The book is part story, part handbook and shows you how you can learn to listen and trust yourself implicitly. Sharing all her successes and failures, mistakes and milestones – from working in the TV industry to homeless and living in a boiler room – Ebonie shares with candid honesty everything that has led her to where she is now – living a life by design. This book is for you if you are unemployable because you are too creative, too innovative, too smart, too geeky or too full of heart to clock in and clock out of a job and or life. If you feel like a square peg in a round hole and want to move from a place of overwhelm and isolation to a place of clarity, progress and belonging. If you have felt stuck or unable to receive success. If you are self-employed, a micro-business owner, or an aspiring entrepreneur who wants to live a fully rounded, 360-degree life where there is space and time to work, rest and play.