Gerry Faye Murphy

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The Accidental Entrepreneur: How We Turned 3,749 into a 100 Million Business in Three Years

In The Accidental Entrepreneur Gerry Murphy tells the fascinating story on how he became an entrepreneur and how, with a small team, he turned a relatively small investment into a multi-million Euro business, GreatGas Petroleum, and sold it to a large multinational company. The book also provides a ...

End of Part One: New & Selected Poems

Gerry Murphy was born in Cork in 1952. His poetry collections include A Small Fat Boy Walking Backwards (1985, 1992) and four previous collections from Dedalus, Rio de la Plata and All That (1993), The Empty Quarter (1995), Extracts from the Lost Log-Book of Christopher Columbus (1999) and Torso of ...

My Flirtation with International Socialism

From 'Three Borgesean Fragments' to 'A Random History of the Desmond Rebellion', in this sixth collection of his poems Cork-born Gerry Murphy proves himself to be one of the most inquisitive and unconventional of contemporary Irish poets, moving from the blink-and-you've-missed-it one-line observati...

Book of the 1916 Rising: The Truth

The decade from 1913 to 1923 has had a profound influence on the shaping of the Ireland in which we live today. The disappearance of Home Rule from the Irish political agenda, the struggle for women’s rights. The birth of Irish Trade Unionism, partition and the creation of Northern Ireland in 1920, ...

Where Did That Regiment Go?: A Lineage Chart of British Infantry and Cavalry Regiments

Everyone has heard of, say, the Irish Fusliliers, the Glorious Glosters, or Royal Scots Greys. But where are these regiments today? What are they called? And what were they called a hundred years ago? The painful and much-resented rationalisation of the British regiments - which meant amalgamation o...

Where Did That Regiment Go?

Everyone has heard of, say, the Irish Fusliliers, the Glorious Glosters, or Royal Scots Greys. But where are these regiments today? What are they called? And what were they called a hundred years ago? The painful and much-resented rationalisation of the British regiments - which meant amalgamation o...