My Connemara Journeys Joyce Country

Author : Amelia Joyce
Publisher : Amazon Digital Services LLC - KDP Print US
ISBN 13 : 9781916039308
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Connemara Journeys: Joyce Country written by Amelia Joyce and published by Amazon Digital Services LLC - KDP Print US. This book was released on 2020-04-09 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "My Connemara Journeys - Joyce Country" by Amelia Joyce is a compelling read. Amelia, a native of Connemara, presents seven carefully selected journeys through the landscape of Connemara that are dear to her heart and shares them with us in this beautiful book. The seven journeys represent one journey for each day of the week. "The idea for my guidebook is that the readers get insights into the fascinating people who lived in Connemara, enjoy visiting my favourite off-the-beaten-track gems that the average tourist never sees, and to suggest places where you can enjoy afternoon tea, a creamy pint or a picnic on one of the many sandy beaches dotted along the coast."What was once an isolated landscape ravaged by poverty has now become the destination for nature-lovers, mountain-climbers and other sports enthusiasts alike. Excellent restaurants are in abundance, and the choice of accommodation ranges from simple bed-and-breakfasts to world-renowned luxury castles.

Author : Patrick Joyce
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1839763264
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Going to My Father's House written by Patrick Joyce and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2021-07-27 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historian's personal journey into the complex questions of immigration, home and nation From Ireland to London in the 1950s, Derry in the Troubles to contemporary, de-industrialised Manchester, Joyce finds the ties of place, family and the past are difficult to break. Why do certain places continue to haunt us? What does it mean to be British after the suffering of Empire and of war? How do we make our home in a hypermobile world without remembering our pasts? Patrick Joyce's parents moved from Ireland in the 1930s and made their home in west London. But they never really left the homeland. And so as he grew up among the streets of Paddington and Notting Hill and when he visited his family in Ireland he felt a tension between the notions of home, nation and belonging. Going to My Father's House charts the historian's attempt to make sense of these ties and to see how they manifest in a globalised world. He explores the places - the house, the street, the walls and the graves - that formed his own identity. He ask what place the ideas of history, heritage and nostalgia have in creating a sense of our selves. He concludes with a plea for a history that holds the past to account but also allows for dynamic, inclusive change.

Author : Henry Coulter
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1291250417
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The West of Ireland: Its Existing Condition and Prospect, Part 1 written by Henry Coulter and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-01-23 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These are the opening eleven chapters of Henry Coulter book 'The West of Ireland: Its Existing Condition and Prospects', first published in 1862. It offers local historians and genealogists access to a print version of the specific sections of this important book as it relates to Counties Athlone, Clare and Galway and the Connemara area. Coulter reports on poor harvests and the prospect of impending famine and state of agriculture and trade. The book gives a contemporary account of workhouses, gombeen men, high rents and evictions. It is a treasure trove for those interested in the history of the area and for for those with ancestral roots in the areas reported on. This edition has been enhanced by the inclusion of an index and extensive footnotes not found in the original or in other scanned editions of the book.

Author : Henry Coulter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The West of Ireland written by Henry Coulter and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Daire Whelan
Publisher : Hachette Books Ireland
ISBN 13 : 1529388848
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Haunted by Waters: A Journey into the Irish Countryside written by Daire Whelan and published by Hachette Books Ireland. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning producer and journalist Daire Whelan had reached the end of another busy week and couldn't shake the feeling that life was passing him by too quickly. Vowing to make a change, he decided to commit to a year of fly fishing and set about planning his route through the wild and rugged landscape of Ireland. Here, in Haunted by Waters: A Journey into the Irish Countryside we travel with Daire throughout a season of fly fishing. But as he searches for a sense of meaning, meeting kindred spirits as he explores the rivers and lakes, Daire finds himself rediscovering the majestic beauty of his native country. From fishing on our most secluded bays and wildest loughs in Connemara and Kerry, to casting a line on the rippling waters of the Suir in Tipperary, catching salmon on the Blackwater in Waterford, and the serenity of the Dodder in Dublin on a workday afternoon, Haunted by Waters is an evocative and stunning love letter to Ireland through a sport rich in tradition and storytelling.

Author : William Makepeace Thackeray
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Irish sketch book. Notes of a journey from Cornhill to grand Cairo written by William Makepeace Thackeray and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mary Banim
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 700 pages
Book Rating : 4.V2/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Here and There Through Ireland written by Mary Banim and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Hilary Bradt
Publisher : Bradt Travel Guides
ISBN 13 : 1841623865
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Connemara Mollie written by Hilary Bradt and published by Bradt Travel Guides. This book was released on 2012 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of a journey through western Ireland made in 1984, fulfilling a childhood dream of a long-distance ride. The story centres on the growing bond between the author and her Connemara pony, Mollie and the many challenges that they face before the tragic conclusion in the mountains of Kerry. It is also a portrait of rural Ireland before the "Celtic Tiger" era, built up from conversations with the local people. The journey takes them through Counties Galway, Mayo, Clare and Kerry, the obstacles to their progress ranging from bogs, stone walls, and the River Shannon. "I've never tried hitchhiking with a horse before" comments the author. "It's not easy." She travelled with no set route, extending her backpacking knowledge acquired in the Andes to horse packing, "seeing the obvious advantage of climbing mountains on someone else's legs and using another's back for the packing."

Author : Tim Robinson
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141962313
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Connemara written by Tim Robinson and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The triumphant conclusion to Tim Robinson's extraordinary Connemara trilogy, which Robert Macfarlane has called 'one of the most remarkable non-fiction projects undertaken in English'. Robinson writes about the people, places and history of south Connemara - one of Ireland's last Gaelic-speaking enclaves - with the encyclopaedic knowledge of a cartographer and the grace of a born writer. From the man who has been praised in the highest terms by Joseph O'Connor ('One of contemporary Ireland's finest literary stylists''), John Burnside ('one of the finest of contemporary prose stylists'), Fintan O'Toole ('Simply one of the best non-fiction prose writers currently at work') and Giles Foden ('an indubitable classic'), among many others, this is one of the publishing events of 2011 and the conclusion of one of the great literary projects of our time. 'He is that rarest of phenomena, a scientist and an artist, and his method is to combine scientific rigour with artistic reverie in a seamless blend that both informs and delights.' John Banville, Guardian 'A masterpiece of travel and topographical writing, and an incomparable and enthralling meditation on times past ... This perfectly pitched work opens readers up to the world around them' Sunday Times 'Anyone willing to get lost in this book will be left with indelible mental images of places they may never have visited but will now never forget' Dermot Bolger, Irish Mail on Sunday 'Will endure into the far future ... He knows this world as no one else does, and writes about it with awe and love, but also with measured grace, an artist's eye and a scientist's sensibility' Colm Toibin, Sunday Business Post Books of the Year 'Robinson is a marvel ... the supreme practitioner of geo-graphy, the writing of places' Fintan O'Toole, Observer Books of the Year

Author : Susan Howatch
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 145326342X
Total Pages : 932 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cashelmara written by Susan Howatch and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-10-09 with total page 932 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times–bestselling saga: In nineteenth-century Ireland, a titled English family keeps an estate in an era of famine and violent conflict. When Edward de Salis travels to America after the death of his first wife, he is astonished to find himself falling in love with Marguerite, a young woman many years his junior. Full of hope for the future, he returns to his Irish estate, Cashelmara, but in nineteenth-century Ireland—a country racked by poverty and famine—his family eventually becomes trapped in a sinister spiral of violence that Edward could never have foreseen. Cashelmara follows the fortunes of three generations as they struggle to survive both the tragedies of history and their own chaotic lives. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Susan Howatch including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection.