James Francis Smith: 5 books

This story opens in Ireland with two sets of twins setting out for America. The females, Nellie and Molly McCarthy, from County Cork become nurses, where they meet and charm Abraham Lincoln. The males, cousins of Phillip Sheridan,immigrate from County Cavan—Matt Smith to the Confederacy, Brian Smith...

Smith's Irish-American Story wouldn’t be complete without referencing the Irish wars of the early 1900s, including Irish participation in WWI. It wasn’t until 2010 that Ireland’s President Mary McAleese traveled to Turkey to pay tribute to the thousands of her countrymen buried there.Written...

In The Life and Times of Liam O’Donnell, Rory, Liam’s hard-of-hearing brother, preserves an era that is swiftly fading from memory. It’s a story of the sons and daughters of European immigrants raised in the row houses of Philadelphia. A tale not unlike those told by Irish-Americans living in...

American and Saudi Wahhabi terrorists compete to control American’s foreign policy. Each uses five weapons: extortion, sex, blackmail, fear, and assassination.Unholy Conspiracies opens with a late night phone call, a few Arabic words exchanged, reference to a silver chocker, promising that evil...

This is not just another book about the Kennedys. Although, it covers in great detail their era. History is not pretty in fact it’s downright ugly, and we should not gussie it up to make it appear otherwise.A new generation of O’Donnells picked up where The Life and Times of Liam O’Donnell left...