Christian clergymen who helped the Jews come home

Three documents mark the evolution of Zionist history up and including the establishment of the State of Israel: Herzl’s ‘The Jewish State’ in 1896, the 1917 Balfour Declaration, and the 1948 Declaration of Independence. In this book, Yanky shows how four Christian clergymen make a critical impact on the unfolding efforts of the Zionist movement to establish a state for the Jews: Rev William Blackstone, Rev William Hechler, Rev John Grauel and Rev William Hull.

An Original Sinn Féiner is the story of James O’Mara, a man of great moral courage who devoted his life to making Ireland a republic.

Elected in 1900, at 27 years of age, as a Home Rule MP to Westminster, and as a Sinn Féin TD to the first Dail in 1919, James O’Mara is one of only a few people to have served in both the Irish and British Parliaments. He was a central participant in a defining period of Irish history. He was a friend of Michael Collins, Harry Boland and William Cosgrave. He was a Trustee of Dail Eireann, and travelled to America with De Valera to promote the Bond Drive.

Born into a well known Limerick family, James O’Mara’s contribution to the founding of the Irish State is substantial, and yet he didn’t become the household name that was afforded to some of his contemporaries. This biography does justice to a great Irishman; it is an enthralling record of his participation in the creation of Ireland as an independent country.

First published in 1961, the biography was written by James O’Mara’s daughter, Patricia Lavelle. It has been re-published at the request of the family as a tribute to the memory of their forebears.

An Angel calling was written to help people connect easily with their angels.

It is a practical, down to earth book that anyone can read, regardless of their backround or beliefs. It contains many inspirational angel techniques and meditations, as well as true angel stories, that can help you connect Gaurdian Angel and the Archangels, creating the life you would like to live, while bringing you on your own individual journey of angel discovery.

As you choose to improve your life by working with angels, you will feel true peace and contentment, brining healing, harmony and unconditional love to into your life and the lives of those around you.

Kathleen Maddy hails from Kilcurry, Co Louth. This is her first collection of poetry.

Seeing the flower, the beauty of God in the petal – the essence of the scent

I love this book of poems and the way they are written. The poems are just like the author – amazing. Full of love and light, vision and kindness. It made me feel all warm inside.

Aidan Storey – Author and Healer

Kathleen is awake to the magic, the presence within and all around us that animates everything in our world. She has the ability to catch us in her web of inspiration and remind us of the god within.

This is a divine collection of poems bringing you to a place of warmth, stillness, solace, beauty, peace and presence expressed in words.

Fiona Fay, author of ‘Who is God? You Are.’

This book is designed to provide researchers with information on how to find out more about their Irish Jewish heritage. In the process of this search, the researcher will also discover how to access other details that would otherwise be almost impossible to find.

While the book does not attempt to specify where Irish Jewish families came from, it does delve into the history of modern Irish Jewry, which goes back over 130 years. Because Lithuanian Jews play a pivotal role in this history, it is necessary to learn something of Russian history in the 1880s in order to understand why there was such an influx of Lithuanian Jews to Ireland.

Stuart Rosenblatt

Successful businessman Stuart Rosenblatt has compiled the most comprehensive collection of genealogical material ever compiled on an entire Jewish community in any country, ever. This extraordinary 16-volume record which is kept by the Irish Genealogical Society dates back to 1664 and includes births, marriages, burials and inscriptions, school records and census information concerning Belfast, Cork, Limerick, Dublin and other towns in Ireland where Jewish people lived. Stuart lives in Dublin with his wife.

This book is a comprehensive guide for family businesses in Ireland when considering future ownership of the business. There are an estimated 200,000 family businesses in Ireland.

The book comprehensively examines and advises on a range of different areas that need to be considered as part of any succession planning exercise, including the implications of family business dynamics; preparing for management transition; examining non family involvement in the business; considering corporate governance requirements and family agreements; getting the business into shape before any transition; examining exit options; wealth management and asset protection; tax implications; and how to compile a succession plan.

Of most interest is that ‘Planning for Family Business Succession’ contains a number of case studies offering practical guidance and insight into the steps that other family businesses have taken and the implications arising in those situations. The case studies will assist families to identify issues in their own businesses, and provide food for thought about potential outcomes.

Commenting on the launch of the book, Niall Glynn, Partner, Deloitte commented: “Family owned firms make up 90% of the indigenous business sector in Ireland and provide approximately 50% of all employment. It is our experience and the evidence of research worldwide that most businesses give little to no consideration to any form of succession plan, which is fundamental if the business is to continue to operate successfully in the future.

“There are a myriad of financial, legal, commercial, tax and business issues to consider. In addition to these, within a family owned business, there is the added emotional and personal complication of dealing with family members throughout the process. This book should help family businesses who have not yet addressed the issue of succession planning and advise them on how to start the process. In addition it will help those businesses who have successions plans in place evaluate these plans and enable them to ensure they have considered and planned for all eventualities.”

Succession planning is a vital part of business planning and can assist in achieving a number of goals including continuity of ownership; talent management and development; wealth creation to facilitate retirement in addition to family harmony – by removing ambiguity surrounding the criteria for entering the family business, or surrounding the identity of whom ownership ultimately devolves to.

The absence of a succession plan can create several difficulties. The business may pass to family members who are unsuitable or may pass to a number of family members without any framework to resolve disputes among them, and without any framework to acknowledge the different roles they may take in the business. Tax liabilities may also be significantly higher than they need to be, placing a financing constraint on beneficiaries and invariably on the business. The beneficiaries may have no choice but to raise finance through the business, thus burdening the business with their tax liability.

About the author

Niall Glynn is a tax partner with Deloitte. He specialises in capital taxes, domestic corporate reorganisations and shareholder issues. He has 15 years’ experience in advising in the taxation area, primarily providing advice to private domestic businesses, private companies and high net worth individuals on property transactions, domestic corporate reconstructions, investment structuring and asset/wealth protection, estate planning, tax efficient structuring of wills and trusts, family business reorganisations, asset disposals, extraction of value from companies, offshore structures and niche executive share schemes.

Niall is a practicing solicitor, a member of the Law Society of Ireland, a member of the Irish branch of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners, and an associate of the Irish Taxation Institute. He is a former examiner and lecturer for the Irish Taxation Institute and has also lectured and tutored on taxation issues for the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, the Institute of Incorporated Public Accountants, the Law Society’s Law School, and joint courses run by the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners and the Law Society. He is a former member of the taxation committee of the Law Society of Ireland.

About Deloitte

Deloitte refers to one or more of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited, a private company limited by guarantee, and its network of member firms, each of which is a legally separate and independent entity.

Written in the post Celtic Tiger turmoil of 2009 this scathing criticism of the government of Ireland, straight-talking analysis of the extent of the recession and call to arms for the people of Ireland to make a change, is unfortunately as relevant today as it was at the time.

An avalanche buries a family in an isolated cottage, condemning the ghost of a new-born child to wander alone in the haunted hills of Wicklow.

Three generations of women, each hostage to the repercussions of a smouldering secret none of them dares reveal.

Two families from either side of the social divide, brought together by hatred, unrequited love and mortal sin. They should have nothing in common, but fate intervenes in their lives with shocking consequences.

A ruined hut at the foot of the mountain – an unlikely place of innocence, lust, betrayal, and birth that finally releases the secret ghost of the past.

Anne McCabe has written a heartfelt story of Ireland from the 1940’s to the 80’s, and the secret shame that has befallen so many women whose only sin was to dare to fall in love.

David Norris was elected as an Irish Senator in 1987. In March 2011, he put himself forward as a nominee to become President of Ireland. Two months later, the Senator was mired in a controversy caused by the reappearance of two old interviews he had given and that threatened to derail his presidential campaign. “This is the cruellest thing that ever happened to me,” Norris told Irish journalist Joe Jackson at the time of the original publication of one of those interviews in 2002. More recently, Norris has claimed that an interview Jackson himself did in 2002 was the “definitive rebuttal” of the allegations made against him nearly a decade ago and he says it “saved” his life. The senator made similar assertions in relation to an interview that was conducted by Jackson in 2011. This book contains the full transcripts of those characteristically probing interviews and presents a critical perspective on the way in which the Irish media dealt with the controversy. Trial By Media also is David Norris’s own, sometimes tearful, but more often joyful, and endlessly inspiring, life story told in his own words and in his own ebullient fashion.

“That interview saved my life”
Senator David Norris, speaking to Joe Jackson,
in May 2011, referring to an interview Jackson did in 2002.

“You saved me again!”
Senator David Norris speaking to Joe Jackson in June 2011,
referring to their latest interview and meaning it “saved” his presidential campaign.