
An Irishman Abroad
Growing up with Unity and Division in an Anglo-Irish Family
- 228 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
In An Irishman Abroad, Tarka King recalls his feral youth on the periphery of the Anglo-Irish world, his brief UK public school education and a period of extensive travel, followed by a period of soldiering in the Middle East at the height of the Cold War before returning to Ireland.
The book identifies the pre-Belfast Good Friday Agreement Ulster Canal project as a way of tackling historic regional socio-economic ills, with supporting opinions from wide range of contacts stretching from senior IRA hunger strikers through to dedicated hardline Unionists. King reflects on how he felt compelled to move to England due to the unrest in the early 1980s and how management of his farm and forests in 'no-man's-land' was not surrendered and his interest in pursuing the Ulster Canal restoration continues.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Prologue
- 1: Youth in Ireland
- 2: School in the UK
- 3: Teenage Years and the Española Voyage
- 4: America
- 5: Samoa to Australia
- 6: Indonesia to Cambodia
- 7: India and Mother, Then Istanbul
- 8: My Army Application and Mons
- 9: Germany, Cyprus and Beirut
- 10: Pirbright and the Junior Guardsmen’s Wing
- 11: Ceremonial Duties and State Visits
- 12: Cirencester and Return to Ireland
- 13: Dorset Village Characters
- 14: Irish Horse Wars, Japan, and a Fraud Case
- 15: Kazakhstan
- 16: Hong Kong and the Dublin High Court
- 17: The Ulster Canal Machinations
- 18: A Visit from the Special Branch
- 19: HRH The Duke of Gloucester’s Visit to Castle Leslie
- 20: Recovering a Rolls Royce
- Epilogue
- Plates
- Copyright