The Killing Snows by Charles Egan
This book is fiction. The story that inspired it was not. In 1990, a box of very old documents was found on a small farm in the west of Ireland. They had been stored for well over a hundred years and told an incredible story of suffering, of love and ofCharles Egan was born to Irish parents in Nottingham, England. His family moved back to Ireland when he was five years old, because his father had been appointed Resident Medical Superintendent of St. In Clonmel, County Tipperary, there is a psychiatric institution called St. Luke's. Every summer, they spent a month at his father's family's farm outside Kiltimagh, County Mayo, where his grandmother and uncles spent many evenings discussing family and local history. Following that, the family relocated to County Wicklow, where he began his education at the De La Salle Brothers School in Wicklow town.
After that, he went to the Jesuits' Clongowes Wood College (James Joyce's alma mater), and then to University College Dublin, where he studied Commerce and graduated in 1973. He joined the Industrial Development Authority (IDA) in Dublin after an initial stint in the private sector, notably at Marubeni Dublin (where he met his future wife, Carmel). In a few years, his desire to be his own boss drove him to resign and start his own company, which he ran for the next 30 years. His main interests, outside from business, are history, film, and international travel.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781781325704 |
| ISBN 10 | 1781325707 |
| Title | The Killing Snows |
| Author | Charles Egan |
| Series | Irish Famine |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | SilverWood Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2012-11-14 |
| Number of pages | 418 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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