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Meet A Cruel Mischief’s Dr Jacob Smythe
Please note this post contains SPOILERS for books one to four. If you haven’t read them yet, tap/click the banner below to catch up! Dr Jacob Smythe is eighty-five years old and was born in – and...
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A Hidden Motive: The Fitzgeralds of Dublin Book Six
RELEASE DAY! Can Will and Isobel help two old friends to overcome their fear and start afresh? Dublin, Ireland, September 1886. Will is reacquainted with his former fiancée when his father’s close...
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Dublin’s Pawn Shops
Pawnbroking has been practised for over 2,000 years. In China and Greece, it was practised long before Emperor Augustus set up the first pawn in Rome. Under Roman law, no man could pawn his furniture...
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Dublin City Morgue and Coroner’s Court
It was not until 1871 that Dublin had a morgue for the reception and housing of the unidentified dead or those who died in suspicious circumstances. Before then, inquests were held in various...
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Meet A Hidden Motive’s Peter Shawcross
Peter Shawcross is thirty-two years old and was born on a farm just outside Ballybeg in Co Galway. His mother died when he was two while giving birth to his brother James. The Shawcross family often...
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Meet A Hidden Motive’s Cecilia Ashlinn
Thirty-seven year-old Cecilia Ashlinn was born at number 14 Merrion Square North, the only child of Dr Kenneth Wilson and his wife Cordelia. Ken worked with Dr Will Fitzgerald’s father, John, at the...
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The Fitzgeralds of Dublin Series: Books 4 – 6 Box Set
RELEASE DAY! This Kindle box set contains the novels A Forlorn Hope, A Cruel Mischief and A Hidden Motive. A Forlorn Hope: The Fitzgeralds of Dublin Book 4 Dublin, Ireland, September 1883. The rift...
View ArticleA Minor Detail: The Fitzgeralds of Dublin Book Seven – Out Now!
PUBLICATION DAY! Can Will and Isobel honour John’s dying wishes? Dublin, Ireland, July 1887. The city is struggling in a seemingly never-ending heatwave and Will receives devastating news from his...
View ArticleA Short History of Modern Cremation in the United Kingdom and Ireland
Modern cremation, as we know it, began almost one hundred and fifty years ago when Professor Brunetti of Padua, Italy, displayed his cremation apparatus at the 1873 Vienna Exposition along with the...
View ArticleA Short History of Dublin’s Ha’penny Bridge
Ferry services across the River Liffey date back to at least the Fifteenth Century, but in 1665, they were granted a charter by King Charles II. The Charter gave the mayor and sheriffs of the City of...
View ArticleA Short History of Dublin’s Mount Jerome Cemetery
By the early 19th Century, Dublin’s churchyards were dangerously overcrowded, unsanitary and a threat to public health. Many of the churchyards were small, often less than an acre of ground, and had...
View ArticleMeet A Minor Detail’s Evelyn Darby
Evelyn Darby, née Crawford, was born in 1822 in York Street, Dublin, the eldest of three daughters of Surgeon William Crawford and his wife Maria. Dr Will Fitzgerald’s mother, Sarah, was born in 1824...
View ArticleThe Lorna Peel Readers’ Group
The Lorna Peel Readers’ Group is a private Facebook group where you can discuss my books, ask me questions, read excerpts and character bios, and be first to hear book news. Tap/Click the picture to...
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View ArticleMeet A Hidden Motive’s Peter Shawcross
Peter Shawcross is thirty-two years old and was born on a farm just outside Ballybeg in Co Galway. His mother died when he was two while giving birth to his brother James. The Shawcross family often...
View ArticleA Pleasant Distraction: The Fitzgeralds of Dublin Book Eight – Out Now!
Can Will and Isobel rally everyone around and confront an epidemic? Dublin, Ireland, December 1889. Will celebrates his fortieth birthday as reports reach Dublin of a mysterious illness in faraway St...
View ArticleA Short History of Wesley College Dublin
The Wesleyan Connexional School was established in 1845 by a group of Methodist ministers and laymen who wanted to provide a religious, literary, scientific, and commercial education, the religious...
View ArticleA Short History of the Dominican Convent Eccles Street Dublin
In December 1882, Christopher Ryder, J.P., purchased two Georgian houses at numbers 18 and 19 Eccles Street and presented them to the Sisters of the Dominican Convent, Sion Hill, Blackrock, Co. Dublin....
View ArticleRussian Influenza – The Forgotten Pandemic
The Russian influenza pandemic was one of the deadliest in history, killing about one million people worldwide during several waves between 1889 and 1895. It was the first modern pandemic, as it spread...
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