The Taoiseach is spotted choosing his retirement reading.  The occasion was the opening of the Dargan Centre at Carlow Institute of Technology.  “Glad to hear Dargan never got involved in politics, a wise man”, he quipped.

The hardback edition of William Dargan: An Honourable Life is sold out but there are some paperbacks still available from Hodges Figgis in Dublin’s Dawson Street, all good bookshops and the publisher Lilliput Press.
 
“absorbing and illuminating”, Eamon Delaney, Irish Independent
 
“scholarly and accessible”, Andy Bielenberg, The Irish Times

Just over 140 years ago, Captain Myles Keogh from Leighlinbridge, Co. Carlow, US 7th Cavalry, rode out with Custer across the Montana plains to confront a large group of Indians. 

A handsome, charismatic dragoon, Keogh was a hero of the US Civil War and came through that conflict without a scratch. He was far from the only Irishman in the regiment: at least one in 7 and possibly as many as 1 in 4 of the 800 troopers in the 7th Cavalry were Irish. Names like O’Neill, Kenney, Martin, Rooney, Ryan, Hanley, McVeigh, O’Hara and Flanagan abound.  But like all the other troopers under him he died that day. 

​You can read his extraordinary story in pdf form on www.publishing.ie.

Download the PDF of his story (2mb)

Tempest in the Andes by Miguel Garnett published by Fergus Mulligan Communications will soon be available in Dublin City Libraries.  It tells the riveting story of a small Andean community caught between Sendero Luminoso terrorists and the cruel oppression of the police and army in Peru.  The author who has lived in Peru for 50 years has kindly agreed to donate a number of copies to the Library.

​Like everything that we publish at Fergus Mulligan Communications, Tempest in the Andes was designed, laid out and printed in Ireland.

Fergus Mulligan will deliver a lecture on William Dargan to Engineers Ireland on 13 November 2017 at the Midlands Park Hotel, Portlaoise. He presented two other historical talks recently, the first to Malahide Historical Society was in April and the second to Donaghmede Historical Society in Donaghmede House on 5 October.  A chance to bring the achievements of William Dargan to an extended audience.  All are welcome.  More information from [email protected].