An Irishman Abroad
eBook - ePub

An Irishman Abroad

Growing up with Unity and Division in an Anglo-Irish Family

  1. 228 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

An Irishman Abroad

Growing up with Unity and Division in an Anglo-Irish Family

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

  1. Title Page
  2. Dedication
  3. Contents
  4. Prologue
  5. 1: Youth in Ireland
  6. 2: School in the UK
  7. 3: Teenage Years and the Española Voyage
  8. 4: America
  9. 5: Samoa to Australia
  10. 6: Indonesia to Cambodia
  11. 7: India and Mother, Then Istanbul
  12. 8: My Army Application and Mons
  13. 9: Germany, Cyprus and Beirut
  14. 10: Pirbright and the Junior Guardsmen’s Wing
  15. 11: Ceremonial Duties and State Visits
  16. 12: Cirencester and Return to Ireland
  17. 13: Dorset Village Characters
  18. 14: Irish Horse Wars, Japan, and a Fraud Case
  19. 15: Kazakhstan
  20. 16: Hong Kong and the Dublin High Court
  21. 17: The Ulster Canal Machinations
  22. 18: A Visit from the Special Branch
  23. 19: HRH The Duke of Gloucester’s Visit to Castle Leslie
  24. 20: Recovering a Rolls Royce
  25. Epilogue
  26. Plates
  27. Copyright