Brian O'Connell

Personals

Some people do Sudoku, others watch Netflix. Brian reads the classified ads, both online and what remains in print. This book shows how classified ads can help unlock a door into Irish society, both past and present, and allow unique access into the lives of ordinary people with sometimes extraordinary stories. Why is a woman in Bantry selling high-tech eavesdropping equipment? What kind of person pays for a prayer to be published in a newspaper? Did someone really sell a pet monkey in the Evening Echo? These classified ads are not just a few commercial lines of text in print or online publications - they are a treasure trove of stories, of human experience, of nostalgia, of love, loss, loneliness, isolation and redemption.

The Personals

Martyn Turner

Preventing climate change need not bankrupt the world. Decarbonizing the economy will not only halt global warming, but also improve the lifestyles of all the world's people. The dynamics of industry are about to undergo a radical change. Investment is set to flow to an entirely new range of solutions that offer the world clean and reliable power and energy. The solutions to the world's most serious problems exist now. In The Whole World's Watching the authors explain how money can be channeled into the technology that will preserve the lifestyles we currently enjoy and create a new era of economic growth. This is a book that proposes real, concrete solutions. Environmentalists and politicians will not stop climate change from occurring: industry will and it will happpen a lot sooner than we think. Global warming is real and not a problem that will disappear on its own. This book explains why it is now time to mobilize the world's financial markets to work for the good of mankind. The money to finance the changes necessary to prevent climatic mutation should come from Wall Street, instead of Washington or Berlin. In order to prevent Helsinki from becoming a summer holiday destination, the world will have to ante up $500 billion a year. It is a problem that will impact on a whole range of industries and affect the lives of everyone in the industrial world. A whole new breed of investment brokers will be created and these "green bankers" will inherit the earth.

Decarbonizing the Economy and Saving the World

The Whole World's Watching

The book tells for the first time the remarkable life story of John Hunt, one of the world’s greatest medievalists and someone whose legacy to Ireland lives on today with most of the major cultural attractions in the Shannon region including Bunratty Castle and Folk Park and the Hunt Museum, owing their existence to either his initiative or generosity. Details of his family background are also provided which differ greatly from those previously published. This biography brings together a host of information about one of the most remarkable figures in the 20th century art scene, who collected treasures can be found in some of the world’s major museums.

The Man, The Medievalist, The Connoisseur

John Hunt

Jason R. Lamb

Scott Tolson

Roger Petersen

Bruce Patterson

Kindred

Predator

Cian O'Carroll

Mary McAleese, President of Ireland, succinctly captured the character of Brendan O'Regan as follows: 'a true visionary who leaves a legacy that permeates throughout all levels of economic, social and cultural life in Ireland'. This authoritative biography of O'Regan sets out that legacy in a well researched and compelling narrative. It is essential reading for anyone seeking a well-founded and original perspective on the evolution of Irish industry, aviation and tourism over the last seventy years. It also provides an assessment of O'Regan's important, but largely unheralded, role in the promotion of peace and reconciliation in Ireland. His efforts in this area, over more than thirty years, led Mark Patrick Hederman, former Abbot of Glenstal Abbey, to assert: 'he [O'Regan] more than any other individual person ...laid the foundations for peaceful co-existence between the different traditions on this island and between Ireland and England.' Author, Brian O'Connell, and collaborator, Cian O'Carroll, knew their subject well through Shannon Development (SFADCO), the regional development agency O'Regan first headed. With good foresight, they persuaded him, at the age of eighty-seven, to record orally his personal memories of the events and the many prominent personalities in Ireland and abroad he met and dealt with. O'Connell's biography combines this oral account with interviews of nearly 100 of Brendan's contemporaries and extensive original material from Irish state archives. It makes an invaluable contribution to the history of those transitional years between the era of creating statehood and modern Ireland.

Irish Innovator, Visionary & Peacemaker

Brendan O'Regan

An informative guide to a wide variety of rewarding careers and employment opportunities describes in detail more than 150 different careers, from mystery shopper to organic farmer and professional clown, and furnishes information on pay, perks, job requirements, training, and more. Original.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Dream Jobs

What will Johnny do? That was the question on the lips of Boston Red Sox fans - otherwise known as Red Sox Nation - during the 2004 season. That year, Johnny Damon and his band of Idiots stunned the baseball world by staging a historic comeback against longtime rivals, the New York Yankees, in the American League Championship Series.

Johnny Damon

Knute Iwaszko

Discusses how 401(k) plans work, contribution requirements, tax regulations, and how to transform an ordinary 401(k) plan into a windfall

How I Started with Nothing and Made a Million-and You Can, Too

The 401 (k) Millionaire

Argues that Generation X enterepreneurs are different from entrepreneurs of previous generations, describes the challenges they face, and shares advice from fellow entrepreneurs

Brian O'Connell

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