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 Frank Lyons Publications

The Die is Cast

NEW ** December 2012

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“The Die is Cast is an examination of the human condition with goodness and evil in competition for the soul. Frank Lyons’ portrayal of a high flying corporate executive and his struggles with his past and himself make for a good read. . . .It is a journey home to place, family, and goodness that fulfills the prophecy of a seanachie [soothsayer] An Irish tale, told by an Irishman, that is a lesson for all who encounter The Die is Cast.”

--James T. Barry, Ed.D., President, Mount Marty College.

About the author

Frank Lyons understands large multinational corporations from working as an executive of a Fortune 100 corporation and president of an international consulting company. He lives on the banks of the Mississippi where he continues to write.

Other publications

South Dakota Days (2011)

William and Mary: Their Lives and Times (2001)

SOUTH DAKOTA DAYS

By Frank Lyons

South Dakota Days is a series of stories about rural Midwest life in the 1930s and 1940s. It is written in the down-to-earth language of the times. Even though life was tough during the never-ending Great Depression, people of South Dakota learned how to live their lives with humor, happiness, and eternal hope for better days ahead.

For readers who lived on Midwest farms and ranches in the mid-twentieth century, the stories will stir up memories. For others, it will allow them to "time machine" themselves back to that place and time.

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William and Mary:  Their  Life        and Times

The story of William & Mary Lyons of Yankton, South Dakota and their seven children: Pat, Frank, Gene, Jack, Tom, Betty (Susan), Bob. 

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 The Nunda Irish

by Bill McDonald 

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 The Story of Irish Immigrants:

       The joys and sorrows of their life

          in America and Dakota

•  JEREMIAH LYONS and ELLEN WHELAN,  Co. Waterford, decided to take their babies and Kathleen O'Flynn and head for a new land in America. They went on to establish their family, first in Chicago and then on a farm near Burr Oak, Iowa.
  

• Their children became Dakota homesteaders in the 1870s and were joined by others from Stillwater, Minnesota. These pioneers served many roles in the developing the West as it matured into the mid-west farm and city society that weathered World Wars I & II, the dust bowl, and the depression.

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PART I:  <Click eBook

 FORWARD ........................................................... vii
THE IRELAND BEGINNINGS .................................. 1
WELCOME TO AMERICA ...................................... 17
    THE TRANSITION ............................................... 36     ON TO DAKOTA .................................................. 52
PRAIRIE KINGS AND QUEENS ............................ 71
D.T. BECOMES SO. DAK ...................................... 88

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PART II: FAMILY PHOTO ALBUM

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THE DREAM ENDS................................................119 INTO THE 20th CENTURY ................................... 135
SOME NEW PIONEERS......................................... 153 WITCHES AND WAR............................................ 172 CHILDHOOD ON THE FARM.................................. 189 FROM THERE TO HERE......................................... 207 ROSTER OF THE NUNDA IRISH............................ 213 

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 Robert F. Lyons Publications

Sesquicentennial Anthology

Contributions by

Lyons &Donohoe Families

(2011)

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My Journey Home

Jeremiah & Ellen Lyons immigrate      to America. 1845 >MORE

FIRST DAKOTANS: The Lyons Experience by Thomas D. Lyons. Edited by Robert F. Lyons (1991). (22 stories from Commonweal magazine). >Click eBook

Flesh and Grass

by Tom Lyons*

   A Dakota Pioneer dies where the

   Prairies turned into the Dust Bowl.

  1934 when the Dakota dust storms raged furiously and the United States government was compelled to purchase and slaughter emaciated, starving livestock, my father, in the last month of his life, described again for us the beauties of the magnificent Dakota prairie in 1873. The region from Omaha to Fort Buford was called the Upper Missouri country, and, except for a few garden patches and some tillage and cultivation as far up as Charles Mix County, it was one great ocean of grass. >READ STORY

    *Tom Lyons writes of his father, Richard Lyons in Vermillion, South Dakota where he had been mayor of the city. “Uncle Will” is my grandfather. The story was published Jan 23, 1942 in Commonweal Magazine.

Oklahoma Days: Dakota Son, Oil Country Lawyerby Thomas D. Lyons. Edited by Robert F. Lyons (1991). >Click eBook

-Notes on Thomas D. Lyons Essays

by Frank Lyons >Click

Letters to the Editor: 1987 New York Times to Present (2010)

by Robert F. Lyons.

100+Letters published nationally and internationally on variety of topics: Politics, Impeachment, Religion, Irish affairs, Sex. >Click eBook

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• James A. Donohoe - Moves family from Iowa to Yankton 1910, Yankton Press & Dakotan, June 11, 2011 >>Click

• Orphan Trains in Dakotas Irish Colony, Immigrants & Orphan Trains from Boston to Yankton, Dakota Territorial Capital 1861-1883, On its 150th Anniversary>>August 2011 IRISH AMERICAN NEWS
  

The Sky's the Limit: South Dakota State University's Coughlin Campanile and the Man Who Made It Possible.

...CHARLIE COUGHLIN, born March 10, 1885 over the Coughlin-Lyons general merchandise store in Carthage, South Dakota became the president of Briggs Stratton Corporation, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was the son of Ellen Agnes Lyons Coughlin and James Coughlin. Ellen's parents were Jeremiah and Ellen Lyons from County Waterford, Ireland.<Click eBook

V I D E O GALLERY

• The Lyons Family: A Living History
  

  John E. Lyons interviews his father & 5 uncles: Pat, Frank, Gene, Jack, Tom, Bob,sons of William & Mary Lyons, Yankton, South Dakota, about growing up on family farm.
  

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• Lyons Farm Auction February 1, 1997* Yankton, South Dakota>>CLICK 
  

• Lyons Family Reunion July 14, 1986 * Yankton, South Dakota >Click

• Lyons Family Reunion August 10, 1991 * Yankton, South Dakota >Click

• James & Mary Donohoe Family Iowa & South Dakota >Click
  

South Dakota Guide

By South Dakota Federal Writers Project1938

SOUTH DAKOTA TODAY

VISITORS who come to South Dakota for the first time expecting to see near-naked Indians, gun-toting cowboys, and Calamity Janes will be disillusioned....Recurrence of such early hardships as drought and grass-hoppers, with the addition of a new one, the dust storm, for a time arrested prosperity and progress, but it failed to discourage the tenacious people....South Dakota has been, and still is a pioneer State. More>>

 I AM IRELAND

Centennial of Irish 

Rising 1916

Paddy Homan

Irish American News

July 2015

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