Singers, Scallywags & Soldiers is a collection of history stories and essays exploring the lives of the Irish military diaspora in Sweden, South America, and in the Confederate States Army, as well as dissent in folk music in the 1950s.

This collection also recounts the stories of the rebel Irish priest who fought in the Easter Rising in 1916 and claimed to have invented the sawn-off shotgun, an engineer who perished aboard the Lusitania before his remains washed ashore several weeks later in County Kerry, Ireland, and the remarkable story of a how a 171-year-old Bible printed in Irish, the personal handgun of the Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Cork, Tomás MacCurtain, and the small matter of an outrage in Cobh in 1924 are all bound together by an Irish revolutionary.

Available now in paperback and as a Kindle e-Book. Free P&P inside Ireland.

Read an extract.