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Stars and Stripes for Eireann : American Connections in the Making of Modern Ireland, by Dermot Walsh
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Out of the blue they came to Shannon. Extraordinary people who would do extraordinary things in what was an extraordinary era when the combination of American know-how and enterprise, with Irish imagination and will to do well established a hotbed around Shannon Airport in which were planted the seeds of the Irish economic transformation of the 1960s.
Recorded in outline in this book are the largely untold stories of a selection of those extraordinary Americans who collectively formed the key in opening up the deprived West of Ireland to new ideas, new confidence an a new future including Charlie Blair, Bernard P McDonagh, Stan Delaplane, Mark Edwin, Lavone Andrews, Barbara Walters and Chuck Feeney.
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