Pimpernel

Brian Fleming, the author is a former member of the Oireachtas and is currently Principal of Collinstown Park Community College in Dublin.

Brian felt that this book should be written to generate more awareness about this great man and his selfless humanitarian work.

"O'Flaherty was awarded the highest honours, including a CBE (UK), the Congressional Medal (US), and was the first Irishman named Notary of the Holy Office. Eight million viewers watched him in 1963 on BBC's 'This Is Your Life'. Within months he had died and his death was reported by papers all over the world. In 1983 he was immortalised in the film, 'The Scarlet and the Black‘. Yet the only monument to him is a grove of trees planted in Killarney National Park in 1994 by his family and friends.
The name of this great and good man is largely forgotten in his native Ireland."
‘The Vatican Pimpernel’ is published by Collins Press and is available in all bookstores.
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