Download or read book Great Irish Voices written by Gerard Reid and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About 70 speeches, given by some of Ireland's greatest stateswomen and men, are compiled in this volume. The selections, spanning 400 years, are arranged in ten categories (i.e. "Speeches from the Dock," "The Birth of a Nation," "The Ulster Question") and then chronologically within each category. Each speech is introduced by the editor to set the context. A final section contains a brief biography of each speaker. Distributed by ISBS. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR