Defying the Curse by Maria O’Rourke

The was a curse on the ‘Big House’. A local peasant foretold that the family would someday be ‘ruled by a cripple!’ So, when a son was born without any limbs, it seemed the premonition had come true. But nobody could have foretold what the boy would achieve and how his name would go down in history as one of the most remarkable Irishmen to ever live.

Kilkenny, Marble City Publishing, 2024 ISBN: 9781908943705