Ireland, France, and the Atlantic in a Time of War: Reflections on the Bordeaux-Dublin Letters, 1757

by Thomas M. Truxes

In March 1757 - early in the Seven Years' War - a British privateer intercepted an Irish ship, the Two Sisters of Dublin, as it returned home from Bordeaux with a cargo of wine and French luxury goods. Amongst the cargo seized were 125 letters from members of the Irish expatriate community, which were to lay undisturbed in the British archives for the next 250 years.

Re-discovered in 2011 by Dr. Truxes, this cache of (mostly unopened)...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1472468767
• ISBN13: 9781472468765
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.1"