Irelands Hidden Histories

Author : Frank Hopkins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781848408234
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ireland's Hidden Histories written by Frank Hopkins and published by . This book was released on 2021-09 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story a day from Ireland's forgotten history, written in accessible and enjoyable bite-sized sections, perfect for the history buff and the general reader.

Author : Marc McMenamin
Publisher : Gill & Macmillan Ltd
ISBN 13 : 071719289X
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ireland's Secret War written by Marc McMenamin and published by Gill & Macmillan Ltd. This book was released on 2022-04-14 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thrilling account of the true extent of Irish–Allied Co-Operation during World War II. Ireland's Secret War reveals strategic Nazi intentions for Ireland and the real role of leading government figures of the time, placing Dan Bryan and G2 – the military intelligence branch of the Irish Defence Forces – at the centre of the country's battle against Nazi Germany. With the help of over thirty-five hours of previously unpublished audio recordings that were held in storage in northern California for over fifty years, Marc Mc Menamin reveals the extraordinary unheard history of WWII in Ireland, told from the point of view of the main protagonists. Fascinating and entertaining, Ireland's Secret War reassesses the legacy of the Irish contribution to the Allied war effort through the voices of those involved at the time.

Author : Frank Hopkins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781848402942
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ireland 366 written by Frank Hopkins and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this entertaining and engaging book, Frank Hopkins delivers an episode from Ireland's history for every single day of the year. Some are surprising, some sensational and others sad, but they are always fascinating.

Author : Daniel Corkery
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1620321386
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hidden Ireland written by Daniel Corkery and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2012-03-16 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although modern research into the period has been significant, Daniel Corkery's study of Irish poetry and culture in eighteenth century Munster is widely acknowledged as having had a profound influence on the shaping of modern Anglo-Irish literature.

Author : Thomas Cahill
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307755134
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How the Irish Saved Civilization written by Thomas Cahill and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2010-04-28 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A book in the best tradition of popular history—the untold story of Ireland's role in maintaining Western culture while the Dark Ages settled on Europe. • The perfect St. Patrick's Day gift! Every year millions of Americans celebrate St. Patrick's Day, but they may not be aware of how great an influence St. Patrick was on the subsequent history of civilization. Not only did he bring Christianity to Ireland, he instilled a sense of literacy and learning that would create the conditions that allowed Ireland to become "the isle of saints and scholars"—and thus preserve Western culture while Europe was being overrun by barbarians. In this entertaining and compelling narrative, Thomas Cahill tells the story of how Europe evolved from the classical age of Rome to the medieval era. Without Ireland, the transition could not have taken place. Not only did Irish monks and scribes maintain the very record of Western civilization -- copying manuscripts of Greek and Latin writers, both pagan and Christian, while libraries and learning on the continent were forever lost—they brought their uniquely Irish world-view to the task. As Cahill delightfully illustrates, so much of the liveliness we associate with medieval culture has its roots in Ireland. When the seeds of culture were replanted on the European continent, it was from Ireland that they were germinated. In the tradition of Barbara Tuchman's A Distant Mirror, How The Irish Saved Civilization reconstructs an era that few know about but which is central to understanding our past and our cultural heritage. But it conveys its knowledge with a winking wit that aptly captures the sensibility of the unsung Irish who relaunched civilization.

Author : Eddie Lenihan
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101167335
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Meeting the Other Crowd written by Eddie Lenihan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-02-02 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Other Crowd," "The Good People," "The Wee Folk," and "Them" are a few of the names given to the fairies by the people of Ireland. Honored for their gifts and feared for their wrath, the fairies remind us to respect the world we live in and the forces we cannot see. In these tales of fairy forts, fairy trees, ancient histories, and modern true-life encounters with The Other Crowd, Eddie Lenihan opens our eyes to this invisible world with the passion and bluntness of a seanchai, a true Irish storyteller.

Author : Mike Milotte
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781848403727
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Banished Babies written by Mike Milotte and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dublin, summer 1980; Kate Bush is on the radio, Nadia Comaneci is cleaning up at the Olympics and in one house by the Liffey, a spiky but sensitive ten-year-old girl is minding her troubled ma and her two brothers. But when a tragedy splits the family apart, the girl realizes that the only person she can depend on is herself.

Author : Elizabeth T. Hurren
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108484093
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hidden Histories of the Dead written by Elizabeth T. Hurren and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-25 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the post-mortem journeys of bodies, body-parts, organs, and brains in modern British medical research. This title is also available as Open Access.

Author : Robert Scally
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195363647
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The End of Hidden Ireland written by Robert Scally and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1995-03-02 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many thousands of Irish peasants fled from the country in the terrible famine winter of 1847-48, following the road to the ports and the Liverpool ferries to make the dangerous passage across the Atlantic. The human toll of "Black '47," the worst year of the famine, is notorious, but the lives of the emigrants themselves have remained largely hidden, untold because of their previous obscurity and deep poverty. In The End of Hidden Ireland, Scally brings their lives to light. Focusing on the townland of Ballykilcline in Roscommon, Scally offers a richly detailed portrait of Irish rural life on the eve of the catastrophe. From their internal lives and values, to their violent conflict with the English Crown, from rent strikes to the potato blight, he takes the emigrants on each stage of their journey out of Ireland to New York. Along the way, he offers rare insights into the character and mentality of the immigrants as they arrived in America in their millions during the famine years. Hailed as a distinguished work of social history, this book also is a tale of adventure and human survival, one that does justice to a tragic generation with sympathy but without sentiment.

Author : Joep Leerssen
Publisher : Arlen House
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hidden Ireland, Public Sphere written by Joep Leerssen and published by Arlen House. This book was released on 2002 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did the political climate of "ancien régime" Ireland, with its colonial-style landlord system, its Penal Laws, and its total cultural segregation, give way to the mounting nationalist groundswell of the nineteenth century? This pilot study attempts to sidestep ingrained and outworn debates, and argues that Irish developments around 1800 can be fruitfully studied in the light of historical models elaborated for Continental Europe. Between 1780 and 1830 a cultural transfer took place from native, Gaelic-speaking Ireland to urban academic and professional circles, and between 1820 and 1850 the Catholic part of the population came to appropriate Ireland's public sphere.