For the Love of Being Irish

Overview

Expressing the passion felt for Ireland using all 26 letters of the alphabet accompanied by rhymes, colorful illustrations, and informative text, this tribute to the Emerald Isle explores the country's expansive influence. Readers will enjoy fun facts about the Great Famine, kissing the Blarney Stone, reading Yeats, and zigzagging down Irish roads in a memorable journey for those with a warm place in their hearts for Ireland.

Author Biography

Irish American Heritage Center is one of the premiere Irish cultural organizations in the United States. It is located in Chicago. Conor Cuneen is an internationally recognized business speaker with clients all around the world, a fellow of the Marketing Institute of Ireland, and the recipient of the Chicago Humorous Speaker of the Year award. He originally hails from County Cork in Ireland. Mark Anderson is an illustrator whose work has appeared on the back cover of National Geographic, the New Yorker, and Time and inside the Atlantic Monthly, BusinessWeek, Harvard Business Review, Outside, and many other periodicals. He is the illustrator and designer of Triumph Books' popular For the Love of . . . series. They both live in Chicago.