Keneally breathes life and warmth into his Irish heroes.

Frescati's greatest historic attraction lies in its association with this popular Irish hero.

The link with the legendary Irish hero Ossian is peripheral to the plot and is explained near the end.

Irish nationalists see him as the most important Celtic Irish hero, and thus he is important to their whole culture.

Someone so like the Irish heroes she'd dreamed about when she was younger.

One of the most famous of Irish heroes, he was supposedly the source of many Arthurian legends.

Frankie's father tells him stories about great Irish heroes like Cuchulain and makes up stories about their neighbors down the street.

Pat's all right, look at him, he looks like some sort of Irish hero, and he's writing yards of poetry.

This was too much for the veteran fortress, already tottering to its fall; it surrendered, and breathed its last in the hands of the Irish hero.

A famous Irish hero, Michael Collins, once said that border land is trouble and always will be.