Author: Maura Craig Publisher: Britain in Old Photographs ISBN: 9780752456270 Category : Photography Languages : en Pages : 0
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Derry is one of Ireland's most historic walled cities. It is also renowned for its picturesque location, straddling the River Foyle and having as its backdrop the magnificent Donegal Hills. Having withstood three sieges in the seventeenth century, today its walls remain intact and add to the uniqueness of Derry's heritage. Within the pages of this book, the city's rich history and heritage, its social and economic development are chronicled in often poignant pictures. Added to all this is the often controversial political image which Derry has projected over the years. This book will evoke cherished memories as it captures for ever the changing face of this beautiful city over the years.
Author: Garrett Carr Publisher: Faber & Faber ISBN: 0571313361 Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 227
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In the wake of the EU referendum, the United Kingdom's border with Ireland has gained greater significance: it is set to become the frontier with the European Union. Over the past year, Garrett Carr has travelled this border, on foot and by canoe, to uncover a landscape with a troubled past and an uncertain future. Across this thinly populated line, travelling down hidden pathways and among ancient monuments, Carr encounters a variety of characters who have made this liminal space their home. He reveals the turbulent history of this landscape and changes the way we look at nationhood, land and power. The book incorporates Carr's own maps and photographs.
Author: James Fennel Publisher: Hachette Ireland ISBN: 9780340920275 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 0
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In Vanishing Ireland II, the follow up to the bestselling Vanishing Ireland I, we take another journey down memory lane and, through a unique collection of portrait interviews, we look at the dying ways and traditions of Irish life. Illustrated with over a hundred evocative and stunning photographs, we meet the people and the customs that are fast becoming a distant memory. Through their own words and memories, men and women from every corner of Ireland transport us back to a simpler time when people lived off the land and the sea, and when music and storytelling were essential parts of life. Vanishing Ireland brings together the stories of those who lived through Ireland's formative years. These poignant interviews and photographs will make you laugh and cry but, above all, will provide a valuable chronicle that connects twenty-first century Ireland to a rapidly disappearing world.
Author: Erika Hanna Publisher: ISBN: 0198823037 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 281
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Photographers often depict Ireland with bucolic rural landscapes, but during the twentieth century, men and women across Ireland picked up cameras to create and curate photographs revealing more complex and diverse images of Ireland. Snapshot Stories Uses diverse photographic archives, both professional and personal, to explore these stories.
Author: Art Byrne Publisher: Gill & MacMillan ISBN: 9780717136414 Category : Derry (Northern Ireland) Languages : en Pages : 118
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This collection of photographs is a chronicle of social life in Derry from 1890s to the modern day. The main emphasis is on the period 1940 to 1980. The book recalls the town's commercial, sporting and artistic life with nostalgia and affection. The famous walled plantation town occupies the site of a sixth-century Columban monastery. A town grew up around the monastery and by the 13th century Derry was a diocesan centre. But its modern history dates from the 17th century. Its history echoes that of Ulster in general. The Protestant plantation town withstood the famous Jacobite siege of 1689 - thereafter it stood as a symbol of Protestant defiance while gradually attracting a Catholic population to areas outside the walls like the Bogside. history - that which tended to unite rather than divide - is less often celebrated. That is what this book does, in pictures. The earliest image dates from 1872, but most of the material covers the years from the 1930s to the 1960s. These glimpses of the city's past and of the people who made it embrace commercical life, sport, music (for which the city is justly famous) and the other aspects of the ordinary daily round. It also records the dreadful poverty of old, as well as the embittered politics. Art Byrne and Sean McMahon have assembled a wide selection of images, all of them drawn from private sources and most of them never seen before in print.
Author: Publisher: Arcadia Publishing ISBN: 9780738535579 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 134
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Situated only forty miles north of Boston, Londonderry is one of the fastest growing towns in a rapidly developing region of New England. With the opening of Interstate 93 in 1963, the town's transformation from rural farming community to metropolitan suburb began. Today, as progress inevitably changes the appearance of Londonderry, the town strives to maintain its small-town appeal and rich agricultural heritage. In words and pictures, Londonderry captures the character of the town from the mid-nineteenth century through World War II. Included are early photographs of farms, homesteads, and taverns that have changed very little, and many more photographs of mills, churches, barns, and rail depots that disappeared years ago. Londonderry is also a record of people engaged in a more simple way of life-apple picking, collecting maple syrup, bringing in the hay, and tobogganing on Ela's Hill (now the site of a fast-food restaurant). Londonderry tells a fascinating story to be enjoyed by lifelong residents and newcomers alike.
Author: Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Publisher: ISBN: Category : Archaeology Languages : en Pages : 654
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Index of archaeological papers published in 1891, under the direction of the Congress of Archaeological Societies in union with the Society of Antiquaries.
Author: Dr John Burke Publisher: The History Press ISBN: 0750963867 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 530
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Athlone 1900–1923 is perhaps the most detailed analysis ever completed of an Irish provincial town during this defining period in the country's history. Using a wide variety of local, national and international sources, this meticulously researched study provides the reader with a comprehensive history of the evolution of Irish nationalism in Athlone, drawing together all of the events, personalities and political philosophies that influenced not only the course of local politics, but also the fate of the Irish nation itself.
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