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NICHOLAS FURLONG, BESTSELLING AUTHOR

Nicholas Furlong, bestselling author and lecturer, walks his groups from the US, the UK and other countries on an entertaining odyssey. 

He takes them on a journey that starts with the white-fronted goose which has just flown in from Greenland.  He introduces them to the Stone Age and Bronze Age Wexford, to Celts from mainland Europe, Vikings from Norway, French Normans and Flemish from Britain, all now part of the rich genetic and cultural mix of Co. Wexford in the southeast of Ireland. 

His audience of men, women and children walking with him through  the streets of  Wexford town is captivated. “Commodore John Barry, father of the American navy, Zorro, Chris De Burgh, John Banville, Colm Toibin…. all lived nearby. The world famous Wexford Opera Festival is here. President John F. Kennedy stood here in 1963, Dwight Eisenhower in 1962.”

Love, Marriage, Birth, Murders, Battles and Burials
Nicholas Furlong educates and entertains. His visitors are enthralled with his knowledge and with telling wit which bring the listener visually and stunningly to the people, the conditions, the aroma and taste of the far-off time.

He talks them colourfully through the history of Wexford  and Ireland and walks them through the places where the courting couples met. He tells them stories of love, love affairs, births, marriages, mass murders and grim battles and burials. And he tells them of the workforce and the business production culture of the modern Irish.

Furlong at the Stone Age Dwellings at
The NationalHeritage Park, Wexford

Nicholas Furlong knew the generals, the soldiers, the politicians and kings, the heroes and villains on both sides of every battle in which Wexford and indeed Ireland fought for many centuries. He has written about them in bestselling books including Diarmait, Father John Murphy, The Mighty Wave and A History of County Wexford.  These are just four books through which Furlong tells the novice historian and the academic authoritatively what really took place and who did what, when, the strategic thinking of the time and for what cause. There are more. 

‘Greatest comic novel in this century’
His growing up on a farm in rural Wexford in the 1940’s and 1950’s and helping in his father’s pub in the Main street in Wexford town provided the fertile ground from which Nicholas Furlong drew the inspiration which led him to write knowingly about the social history of Ireland. From this background, he created what critic Dr. Gerry Dukes of University of Limerick said was ‘the greatest comic novel in this century’ namely ‘Young Farmer Seeks Wife’. It is based on his weekly column "Pat O’Leary" syndicated for 30 years in The People Group of Newspapers, Wexford.