{"product_id":"books-building-the-great-pyramid-by-kevin-jackson","title":"Building the Great Pyramid","description":"In the spring of 1867, with the new underwater cable bringing word to America of a rising throughout Ireland, the New York-based Fenian Brotherhood decides to make good on a long-standing commitment to provide military aid to its counterpart in Ireland, the Irish Republican Brotherhood. Experienced Union Army officers -- Civil War veterans of the Federal Army's Irish Brigades -- become cargo, along with thousands of long-stockpiled weapons and millions of rounds of ammunition. All are loaded aboard a two-masted, square-rigged brigantine that sails in April from Sandy Hook, New York, to Ireland's western highlands. The rest, as they say, is history. Erin's Hope is a historical novel that blends real and composite characters into actual and fictionalized events associated with the little-known nautical expedition that took a one-ship Fenian armada on a 9,000-mile voyage that proved to be a military mission that both succeeded admirably and failed miserably. Through its main characters, Erin's Hope traces the social, political, economic and deeply personal origins of 19th Century Irish-American involvement in what remains, well more than a century later, an ongoing struggle over British involvement in Irish affairs.","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53773839925521,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781552977217.jpg?v=1783980797","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/books-building-the-great-pyramid-by-kevin-jackson","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}