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Review of Books

By Irish America Staff
June / July 2011

July 1, 2011 by Leave a Comment

Recently published books of Irish and Irish American interest. To purchase these books visit Kenny's Bookshop here. Recommended  The Bottom of the 33rd:  Hope, Redemption and Baseball’s Longest Game  Dan Barry, renowned New York Times columnist and two-time Pulitzer Prize nominee, saw something in the longest game in the history of professional baseball: that it was about … [Read more...] about Review of Books

July 6, 1907

Ireland’s Crown Jewels are found missing on this day in 1907, just before days before a state visit by King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra. The theft remains a mystery to this day. Arthur Vicars, Officer of Arms at Dublin Castle, held the jewels in his office and publicly accused his second in command, Francis Shackleton. Shackleton was exonerated and the case was never solved. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle used this historical event as the influence for his Sherlock Holmes story “The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans.”

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