{"id":317,"date":"2009-09-22T23:23:13","date_gmt":"2009-09-22T22:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/conorpower.ie\/?p=317"},"modified":"2009-10-23T10:15:57","modified_gmt":"2009-10-23T09:15:57","slug":"a-born-again-irishman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/conorpower.ie\/?p=317","title":{"rendered":"A Born Again Irishman"},"content":{"rendered":"

Before being let go, taking on journalism on a full-time basis and writing a hurling book\/ memoir\/ biography about my father Ned Power, I used to sell houses for a living.<\/p>\n

One of the very first properties I sold was to an American of Italian extraction named Fred Caruso.\u00a0 He lives in the American mid-west with his wife ellen.\u00a0 I didn’t know it at the time, but it was an extraordinary, danger-filled story that brought him from being a Italian New-Yorker who couldn’t see the point in leaving New York (let alone the USA itself) to being an Irish citizen with his own little home in West Cork.<\/p>\n

It was the dying tradition of conscription that forced his hand in the early 1960s.\u00a0 His country called him at the barrel of a gun, as it were and he reluctantly boarded a plane as Private Caruso, bound for an American army base in Germany. \u00a0 But the plane carrying him and many others crashed into the Atlantic.<\/p>\n

Lucky to survive, he was taken ashore in Ireland where he was “re-born”.\u00a0 He eventually ended up marrying a lady of Irish origins and was led by the hand of fate to his natural spiritual home.<\/p>\n

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His memoir – “Born Again Irish – O’Caruso” – is a well written account of his rollercoaster ride of an experience.\u00a0 His taught journalist style comes through and its an entertaining read.<\/p>\n

For more information or to order a copy of the book, click here<\/a>.\u00a0 Hurling book it ain’t, but it’s great stuff nonetheless.<\/p>\n

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\"Front<\/a>\u201cMy Father: A Hurling Revolutionary, the life and times of Ned Power<\/strong>\u201d is out on paperback at the end of November 2009.\u00a0 Click here<\/a> for further information, pre-order<\/strong><\/a> and excerpt.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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