The Yidiot’s Guide to Irish Jewish Ancestry
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 [...]
Planning for Family Business Succession
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 [...]
David Norris: Trial by Media
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 [...]