Brian Igoe

Biography

Brian Igoe and his wife Jo married in 1965 in what was then Salisbury, Rhodesia, and now live outside Hereford in England in the beautiful tranquillity of the Wye Valley. No dogs now, as he can't stand poop scooping.

Smashwords Interview

Where did you grow up, and how did this influence your writing?
I sometimes feel I grew up in a car. Or an aeroplane. Earlier I suppose it was in my grandmother's house in Ranelagh Road, Dublin. But as a family we did a lot of traveling, I went to boarding school from the age of 8, and spent holidays in Southern Africa, France, and Ireland, so all in all a happy start to life (apart from school!). Little did I know that half a century later these early travels would provide the canvas upon which I was to work on books...
When did you first start writing?
I did some articles for a South African Economics Magazine around 1985, and later condensed them into a booklet entitled 'High Yield Investment Programmes - Fact or Fiction?'. However in the sense of writing books, I started when I was 65! I started life as a lawyer and became by a series of unexpected twists and turns what I suppose one would call a businessman. First an assistant in a horticulture development in Ireland, then as a manager on a Tea Estate in what was then Rhodesia, and that led to a career which left me as the boss of a multi-national multi-disciplined company based in Harare, by now Zimbabwe. We left Zimbabwe in 2001, and for a few years I was a business consultant and eventually retired. During all that I lived through Zimbabwe's Liberation Struggle and learned to fly, and when I retired I started scribbling memories from which emerged my first 'book', To Fly!
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Books

Six Wild Geese from Australia
Price: $5.00 USD. Words: 32,970. Language: English. Published: January 10, 2018 . Categories: Nonfiction » History » American
A tale of the19th century; of Ireland, Australia, and the United States of America; of Fenians and travel; of English prisons and the Australian Outback; and of the Great Rescue of Six Fenian political prisoners from the Fremantle Convict Establishment in South West Australia.
Napper Tandy, the Story of a Real Irish Patriot
You set the price! Words: 33,300. Language: British English. Published: September 2, 2016 . Categories: Nonfiction » History » European » Europe / Ireland
Napper Tandy played a central part in the mismanaged French ‘invasion’ of Ireland in 1798, was arrested in Hamburg by the English a stone’s throw ahead of Napoleon’s armies, and was sentenced to death by the English but never executed, He was a Brigadier General in t the French Republican Army, and received both salary and pension as such until the day he died, August 24th.,1803, in Bordeaux.
Napper Tandy, The Irish Patriot
Price: $5.00 USD. Words: 33,300. Language: British English. Published: September 2, 2016 . Categories: Nonfiction » History » European » Europe / Ireland
Napper Tandy invaded Ireland with the French, was arrested in Hamburg by the English a stone’s throw ahead of Napoleon’s armies, and was sentenced to death by the English but never executed, a fact which may well have denied him the martyrdom and fame which came to others like Wolfe Tone. He was a Brigadier General in the French Army, and received both salary and pension as such until his death.
Crummell!
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 5,220. Language: English. Published: October 8, 2014 . Categories: Nonfiction » History » European » Europe / Ireland
The Story of Oliver Cromwell's 'pacification' of Ireland between 1649 and 1653, with a description of the New Model Army, the sieges of Drogheda and Wexford, and the removal of the entire Catholic population from their homes to exile in the far west of Ireland.
The Great Famine - Ireland 1847 to 1851
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 7,290. Language: English. Published: September 12, 2014 . Categories: Nonfiction » History » European » Europe / Ireland
The Great Famine in Ireland is the most the most reviled, and yet the most formative event in modern Irish History. What was the Famine? What caused it? Why did so many die, or leave if they could? I look at these questions I give my take on all this, and then I look at those notorious evictions, and finally comment on the long term impact on Ireland, how it was changed, and changed forever.
St Patrick to Grattan - Selected Irish Lives
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 13,100. Language: Commonwealth English. Published: March 12, 2014 . Categories: Nonfiction » Biography » Historical biography
A short glimpse into some selected Irish Lives, from St Patrick to Grattan, to celebrate St Patrick's Day.
Limbless Landlord
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 53,950. Language: English. Published: August 26, 2013 . Categories: Nonfiction » History » Biography, Nonfiction » History » European » Europe / Ireland
Footless! Legless, in fact, and armless too. Nothing to do with a state of intoxication, though - Arthur MacMurrough Kavanagh was was born with no legs or arms, and yet was a most adventurous traveler, a husband and father, an expert horseman, a first class shot, a noted yachtsman, an active local Justice of the Peace and administrator, and a Member of Parliament.. This is his story.
The O'Connell Series. Book 4. Apogee & Perigee.
Series: Daniel O'Connell, the Last King of Ireland, Book 5. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 17,750. Language: English. Published: August 21, 2013 . Categories: Nonfiction » History » Biography, Nonfiction » History » European » Europe / Ireland
This, the fourth book in the O’Connell Series, is also the last one. It describes what posterity has treated as the acme of his career when his Monster Meetings for Repeal attracted hundreds of thousands of people who all behaved perfectly peacefully and, exceptionally for Ireland, with absolute abstention from all liquor. That leads us on through prison to his death on his way to Rome..
The Ireland Series Book 4 - 19th century
Series: The Story of Ireland, Book 4 ยท Daniel O'Connell, the Last King of Ireland, Book 4. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 16,110. Language: English. Published: August 1, 2013 . Categories: Nonfiction » History » European » Europe / Ireland
The Nineteenth Century! The Great Famine starts this section, and next piece, The Irish in America deserves a book in itself. Here we just take a glimpse at the early days. The Transport Revolution with its Atmospheric Railways and its Fly Boats and its steamers and railways should have another book, while The Fenians and Parnell laid the foundation for Modern Island.
The Daniel O'Connell Series Book 3. The Great Reform Bill.
Series: Daniel O'Connell, the Last King of Ireland, Book 3. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 18,580. Language: English. Published: July 3, 2013 . Categories: Nonfiction » Biography » Historical biography
This is the third in the series of LiteBite Books telling the story of Daniel O’Connell. It follows him from the Waterford Election to the great Clare Election where Daniel himself was elected. Thence the book looks at the run-up to the Great Reform Bill in England and the disputes in the United Kingdom House of Parliament of which Daniel was now a Member.
The Daniel O'Connell series. Book 2 - Marriage and a Duel
Series: Daniel O'Connell, the Last King of Ireland, Book 2. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 22,470. Language: English. Published: June 30, 2013 . Categories: Nonfiction » History » Biography
This is the second in the Daniel O’Connell series of LiteBite Books. It takes us from the end of the last book in 1800, which was the year of the Act of Union between England and Ireland, to 1828 when at the famous Clare Election he was elected to Parliament. That election was the culmination of a series of Catholic electoral victories in Ireland, but these were, one might think, Pyrrhic Victory.
The Road to Zimbabwe
Price: $7.77 USD. Words: 74,220. Language: English. Published: June 8, 2013 . Categories: Fiction » Historical » United Kingdom
This is the story of Zimbabwe - told as a series of dramatized adventures interspersed with just a little history. It covers the period from 1190 AD to the current year, 2013. Told in 3 parts, Zambezia, takes us to around 1900; Rhodesia, to 1980, and Zimbabwe to the present day, 2013.
The Ireland Series - Book 3, All Change
Series: The Story of Ireland, Book 3. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 20,030. Language: English. Published: May 27, 2013 . Categories: Nonfiction » History » European » Europe / Ireland
This is the third in the series of LiteBite Books telling the story of Ireland. It takes us from what was a state of virtual slavery, the misery of the Penal Laws, to virtual freedom with the (almost) victory of Daniel O’Connell, 1690 to 1847, a period which saw the greatest change in the fortunes of the Irish since the arrival of the Normans over six hundred years earlier.
The Ireland Series 2 - Religion and War
Series: The Story of Ireland, Book 2. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 18,200. Language: Commonwealth English. Published: May 8, 2013 . Categories: Nonfiction » History » European » Europe / Ireland
This is the second in the series of LiteBite Books telling the story of Ireland. It takes us from 1366 to 1791, the most defining period of Ireland’s history. Book 2 looks at the amazing Fitzgeralds, known as the Geraldines, and follows the saga through Henry VIII and the Dissolution of the Monasteries, Oliver Cromwell, King Billy and the Battle of the Boyne and the Flight of the Wild Geese
The Daniel O'Connell series. Book 1 - Youth
Series: Daniel O'Connell, the Last King of Ireland, Book 1. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 17,500. Language: English. Published: April 14, 2013 . Categories: Nonfiction » Biography » Historical biography, Nonfiction » History » European » Europe / Ireland
This is a LiteBite Book, about the equal of fifty or so pages of a Paperback or Pocket Book. The Daniel O'Connell story โ€’ Book One. Youth. This is the first in a series of LiteBite Books telling the story of Daniel O'Connell, called in his own day the Uncrowned King of Ireland. This first Book takes us from his birth in 1775 to 1800.
The Ireland Series Book 1 - Our Roots.
Series: The Story of Ireland, Book 1. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 15,120. Language: English. Published: April 13, 2013 . Categories: Nonfiction » History » European » Europe / Ireland
This is a LiteBite Book, about the equal of fifty or so pages of a Paperback or Pocket Book. The Story of Ireland โ€’ Book One. Roots. This is the first in a series of LiteBite Books telling the story of Ireland. This first Book takes us from 3000 BC to 1366 AD.
Bianconi, The King of the Irish Roads
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 33,150. Language: English. Published: November 8, 2012 . Categories: Nonfiction » History » Biography, Nonfiction » History » European » Europe / Ireland
Charles Bianconi was an Italian immigrant who built up the largest transport system in Europe,in Ireland! It opened the country up as never before. Trudging Ireland's country Lanes the idea of a passenger transport system occurred to him, and he never looked back. He had 100 vehicles travelling 3,800 miles daily calling at 120 towns, and 140 stations for changing horses. This is his story.
High Yield Investment Programs - Fact, or Fiction?
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 13,950. Language: Commonwealth English. Published: October 23, 2012 . Categories: Nonfiction » Business & Economics » Investments & securities / bonds
I originally became interested in so-called High Yield Investment Programs, HYIP’s, in 1998 when researching alternative sources of finance for investment in areas seen as a bad risk for geo-political reasons. I wrote a series of articles around that time for a finance magazine, in the hope of attracting criticism and comment – which I did! I have now put these together in this small book.
To Fly!
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 25,270. Language: English. Published: October 21, 2012 . Categories: Nonfiction » Biography » Adventurers & explorers
"To Fly!" is a compendium of stories about flying adventures of a father and son, the father in the RAF and the son in Zimbabwe. Bill Igoe learned to fly an aeroplane in 1934, forty years after the death of the Wright Brothers' inspiration Lilienthal. And Bill’s son Brian learned to fly forty years after that, when the Concorde was around. Both had a lot of stories to tell.
Daniel O'Connell, The Last King of Ireland
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 75,650. Language: English (Irish dialect). Published: October 19, 2012 . Categories: Nonfiction » History » European » Europe / Ireland
This is about revolution, duels, and love - love of girls until his marriage, and then of Mary, his devoted wife until the day she died. He became a lawyer, and as a barrister he won fame and fortune. As a politician he achieved greatness, and eventually became what was very close to being the ruler of Ireland โ€’ the last, though uncrowned, King. The book is a novel, but historically accurate.
The Story of Ireland
Price: $5.99 USD. Words: 90,970. Language: English. Published: October 15, 2012 . Categories: Nonfiction » History » European » Europe / Ireland
This is the story of Ireland – not just her History, but her story. Her Music, her Poetry and Theatre, her ancient Brehon laws. How people lived in the times of Brian Boru, what they wore and what they ate and drank. It’s the story of her roads, her railways, her canals. It’s the story of her industries, her agriculture, her linen, her ship building, and her modern financial revolution.

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