Jim Maher is a native of Kilkenny City. He qualified as a teacher in St. Patrick’s Training College, Dublin. His first book was The Flying Column West Kilkenny 1916-1921 (1987). His second book was Harry Boland A Biography (1998) and he followed up with The Oath is Dead and Gone (2011). In 2015 his first book was extended, updated and re-issued under the title, In the Shade of Slievenamon. Jim researched the Civil War for a long period and focused on Harry Boland’s efforts to avert that war.
The definitive story of Harry Boland, the ardent and prominent Republican, loyal confidant to de Valera and close friend and, later, love rival to Michael Collins for the heart of Kitty Kiernan. This is a detailed and dramatic account of the intricate part played by him in Ireland's...
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