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John Healy, the author, spent all his working life in journalism. He joined "The Western People", Ballina, as a cub reporter in 1948 and moved to Dublin in 1950 to join the Irish News Agency. Later he worked with the Irish Press Group before joining the Irish Times organisation in 1959, to become the youngest editor of a national newspaper, The Sunday Review. He went on to edit Ireland's oldest evening paper, The Evening Mail. As a freelance journalist he won the 1967 Television Scriptwriter of the Year Award, published his first book, Death of an Irish Town, which has become an important source book on the evolution of modern Ireland and, as well as being a best-seller, it is one of the most widely-quoted books of the last twenty years. Following its publication Healy was elected "Mayoman of the Year" for "the moral courage and integrity" he had shown in his writings. For close on two decades he wrote The Irish Times political column, "Backbencher", and in the one major study to date of the Irish media, Healy is described as "the father of modern political journalism in Ireland". Nineteen Acres was his second book. This time he pulls the focus tighter, for whereas Death of an Irish Town was a study of a rural Irish village, Nineteen Acres portrays life in the basic unit, the family smallholding. It was an instant success and, like his first book, was out of print within six months. This is the 1987 reprint ( the only reprint done) with an afterword by Healy on how he came to write the book, and with an introduction by Brendan Kennelly.  Closed tear to upper edge of spine, corners creased. Previous owner's name on front endpage.   

TRACKED AN POST DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE PRICE This edited volume presents some thirty chapters by a team of international scholars reviewing the Irish military experience throughout the world over the past 1000 years with each chapter seeking to address the question of whether or not there was anything distinctive about ‘The Irish soldier’. Contents: Thomas Bartlett, Introduction; Catherine Swift, Irish fighting men in the era of Brian Boru; Caitlin Ellis, Viking armies in Ireland; Simon Egan, Warfare in later medieval Ireland; Ruth A. Canning, Elizabeth I’s Irish soldiers; James O’Neill, Hugh O’Neill and the Irish military revolution; Pádraig Lenihan, The Irish soldier, 1641–1702; Declan Downey, Irish soldiery in the armies of Spain and Austria, sixteenth to eighteenth centuries; Tim Fanning, Irish soldiers on the frontiers of Spanish America; Pierre-Louis Coudray, The Irish military experience in France, 1690–1800; Samuel K. Fisher, The Irish soldier in the American Revolution; Andrew Dorman, The Irish soldier in eighteenth-century Ireland; Suzanne Forbes and Charles I. McGrath, The barracks network in Ireland and the Irish soldier in the British Army; Caitriona Kennedy, Wellington’s Irish soldiers; Andrew MacKillop, Irish military identities in the English East India Company, c.1740–c.1820; Chandra Manning, Irish soldiers in the US Civil War; Paul Huddie, The Irish soldier in the Crimean War; Aoife Bhreatnach, Irish women in the nineteenth century British Army; Tony Gaynor, Irish soldiers in Ireland, 1800–1914; Nicholas Perry, The Irish landed class and the British Army, c.1770–1920; Mark McGowan, Canada’s Irish Catholic soldiers and the wars of Empire, 1899–1945; Jeff Kildea, The Irish soldier in Australia in the twentieth century; Patrick McCarthy, The Irish soldier in the First World War; Edward Burke,