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Brilliant Ottawa Book Launch
Description and photos below. Next up is Monday May 1st 7 o’clock in Toronto at O’Grady’s on Church, 518 Church Street, Third Floor. Don’t miss it! Monday was cloudy, then sunny and finally rainy – just like Ireland. We had a brilliant evening in a private room in the Heart and Crown, a beautiful Irish pub… Continue reading
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Kara’s Family Tree Chart

Excerpt from Chapter Seven of The Irish Within Us: Kara had spent the last twenty minutes studying Imogen and had come to the conclusion that the woman spent too much time studying. What’s the point of sitting in the garden on such a lovely day if you waste it doing research? She was currently occupied… Continue reading
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The Irish Within Us available at FriesenPress Bookstore
Friesen Publishers have released The Irish Within Us March 7th, presumably as a birthday present to me. I’m delighted as everyone can enter the fictional world of Ballybeg and get to know Kara, David and Imogen first-hand. For both eBooks and paper versions, the FriesenPress Bookstore is the better option for Canada and the US.… Continue reading
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My First Ad

This was my first ad for The Irish Within Us (2023). I was experimenting with AI, using craiyon.com image generator for the picture. My close friend still comments that it’s spooky ever time I share it. It is supposed to be ethereal, but spooky will do. Continue reading
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Fairies are real

In 1999, the construction of a road in Ireland was delayed 10 years and ultimately re-routed to protect a fairy tree. Continue reading
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About IMOGEN

Imogen Currie. Sorry, that’s Doctor Imogen Winnifred Currie, born Cambridgeshire, England, 1967. Her sun sign is Capricorn. She is the daughter and younger child of Arthur Currie and Marjory Marley. Her childhood friends call her Moge for short. She has very few childhood friends. I won’t bore you with her education and career resume, but… Continue reading
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About DAVID

David McKinney, American, self-styled businessman, born Madison, Wisconsin, USA, 1964. His sun sign is Leo. He is the only child of Margaret O’Grady and Marcus McKinney, from whom he inherited control of the vast McKinney Corporation in 2015. His interests include sailing and tennis, but primarily golf. He married Thomasina Whitworth in 1985. They have… Continue reading
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About KARA

Kara Margaret Gordon, retired public servant, born Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1961. Pisces, of course. Left-handed. Divorced. Daughter of Anne McKinney and Robert Gordon, both Scottish immigrants to Canada. Kara is very open minded and believes in world peace and that we are all connected. Also astrology, reincarnation, ghosts, tarot, palmistry, Ogham divination, runes, Fung Shui,… Continue reading
