New E-Book Launching this month

During my worldwide travels I was always being questioned about Guinness and Ireland by overseas people, so I decided to draft this little story "Why I Love Guinness". The advice given me by a successful author was to write about a subject that I wanted to know about. The story of Guinness was inspiring.

As a returnee Ulsterman, I decided to become a tourist in Northern Ireland accompanied with friends from London. I had sent them a bundle of travel brochures and they choose the itinerary. Our first day was spent at the incredible Titanic Experience in Belfast. Day two was taking a coach trip along the Antrim coast road, stopping at Bushmills 400-Year-Old Whiskey Distillery and a visit to Giants Causeway, a UNESCO world heritage site, and a remarkable natural wonder of the world. Day three we went walkabout, sampling the Belfast cuisine and Guinness, and experiencing the streets, markets and alleyways. Day four was spend in the Ulster Museums discovering Ulster’s unique innovations and there were many. Day 5, my friends took bus rides around Belfast to get loads of photographs for their school project. I went to the Central library to investigate Titanic. Time flies and soon we were all on the way home.

Wilde O'Conor has 8-new books moving along his production line for publication soon.

In 1984, a group of winter-weary individuals began a 10,000-mile safari from London (England) to Cape Town, South Africa. The Safari aimed to explore Egypt and its ancient sites, enjoy the hot African climate, and then experience African wildlife with its unique landscapes. It was to be a dream come true, with no timetable or schedules, the pace was relaxed and there was no time pressure.

The safari took place before the creation of the WWW, before email and Google, and before mobile phones and GPS. In 1984, news about Africa was difficult to obtain, especially when travelling in Africa. Newspapers and telephones were only available in African capital cities, the BBC World Service radio was often unobtainable, and British Embassies advised all tourists to leave Sudan and elsewhere in East Africa.

As the London Safari explored Egypt, the impending civil war in Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo were merely rumours that got little coverage on the BBC Radio World Service.

A six-month old baby boy was adopted by a poor childless couple in an Ulster slum in 1943. His grandfather, Charles Kenny, on seeing the baby for the first time called him ‘a blue baby’ with little hope of a long life. However, his fortunate adoption would prevent his being shipped overseas by Catholic Nuns who exploited ‘unmarried births’ in maternity hospitals, poor houses, and workhouses all over Ireland. His adoption would also protect him from the criminal child peddlers who traded and sold ‘illegitimate and unwanted Irish babies’ overseas to desperate families, to slavers, and to medical researchers in the US, UK, and elsewhere. What were this boy’s life chances of surviving in an Irish slum, in a corrupt, prejudiced, and depressed post-war Ulster?