Robert O'Byrne: Left Without a Handkerchief [2022] paperback CURAF is on the trail of

is on the trail of a treasured painting that once hung outside the Queen's bedroom

he begins to realise that the truth may not be enough to save him

They are here to defend their newly won territory from the French and their allies the Genoese

including aircraft carriers

Robert O'Byrne: Left Without a Handkerchief [2022] paperback CURAF is on the trail ofLeft without a Handkerchief contains ten stories of destruction and loss during the Irish War of Independence and Civil War. Between 250 and 300 Irish country houses were burnt in the early 1920s during the course of the War of Independence and subsequent Civil War. The reasons behind their destruction were various, but because of their scale and prominence on the Irish landscape, setting fire to them was judged by perpetrators to be good propaganda.