Myles Dungan

Jul 25, 2024 | belfasttelegraph.co.uk | Myles Dungan

US vice-president is unlikely to celebrate her link to Antrim-born slave owner Hamilton Brown“You think you just fell out of a ­coconut tree?” Kamala ­Harris’s mother, Shyamala Gopalan, a distinguished research scientist, once asked her daughter, now the presumptive Democratic Party nominee for the US presidency. The question was in the context of Harris’s antecedents, evenly split between Jamaica and India.

Jul 24, 2024 | independent.ie | Myles Dungan

Myles Dungan: We can forgive Kamala Harris for not pursuing her possible family link to an odious Irish slave traderUS vice-president is unlikely to celebrate her link to Antrim-born slave owner Hamilton BrownUS vice-president Kamala Harris and then-taoiseach Leo Varadkar celebrate St Patrick’s Day in Washington DC last year.

Jul 1, 2024 | literaryreview.co.uk | Myles Dungan

In 1761, a peasant movement calling itself the Bougheleen Bawn, or Whiteboys, suddenly appeared in County Tipperary in Ireland. Bands of men dressed in white smocks, some on horseback, roamed the countryside blowing horns. They levelled fences around land recently enclosed as sheep runs, raided homes for arms and enforced oaths on anyone taking over the rental of a farm from which a family had been evicted. Before long the movement had spread over a large part of the country.

May 9, 2024 | uk.bookshop.org | Promoting Books |Myles Dungan

In eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe everyone lived ‘off the land’ in one way or another. In Ireland, however, almost everyone lived ‘on the land’ as well. Agriculture was the only economic resource for the vast majority of the population outside the north-east of the country. Land was vital. But most of it was owned by a class of Protestant, English and often aristocratic landlords.

Apr 7, 2024 | myemail-api.constantcontact.com | Elodie Harper |Dan Jones |Myles Dungan |Will Hutton

Welcome back to theThe Chronicle!As always we are delighted to share our news about historical fiction and non-fiction reads publishing across Head of Zeus' imprints. It's a bumper month for us in terms of historical publishing. We have paperback editions of Elodie Harper's The Temple of Fortuna and Dan Jones' Wolves of Winter as well as Tim Hodkinson's Sword of the War God and Eleni Kyriacou's The Unspeakable Acts of Zina Pavlou.