Author: William Cecil James Philip John Paul Howard Earl of WicklowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rare books
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Catalogue of a Selected Portion of the Library at Shelton Abbey
Author: William Cecil James Philip John Paul Howard Earl of WicklowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rare books
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Vanishing Ireland
Author: James FennellPublisher: Hodder & Stoughton Limited
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
'Vanishing Ireland' is a tribute to 60 elders of Ireland. Combining a collection of interviews with stunning and enigmatic photos, this book looks at dying ways and traditions of Irish life and provides a valuable chronicle that will connect 21st century Ireland to a rapidly disappearing world.
The Lismore Papers
Author: Richard Boyle Earl of CorkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal
Author: The J. Paul Getty MuseumPublisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 0892362081
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal has been published annually since 1974. It contains scholarly articles and shorter notes pertaining to objects in the Museum’s seven curatorial departments: Antiquities, Manuscripts, Paintings, Drawings, Decorative Arts, Sculpture and Works of Art, and Photographs. The Journal also contains an illustrated checklist of the Museum’s acquisitions for the previous year, a staff listing, and a statement by the Museum’s Director outlining the year’s most important activities. Volume 19 of the J. Paul Getty Museum Journal includes articles by Nicholas Penny, Ariane van Suchtelen, Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann and Virginia Roehrig Kaufmann, Frits Scholten, David Harris Cohen, and Dawson W. Carr.
The Magna Carta Manifesto
Author: Peter LinebaughPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520260007
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
History.
Marks and Marking of Weights and Measures of the British Isles
Author: Carl RickettsPublisher:
ISBN: 9780952853305
Category : Standardization
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
This Great Calamity: The Great Irish Famine
Author: Christime KinealyPublisher: Gill & Macmillan Ltd
ISBN: 0717155552
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
The Great Famine of 1845-52 was the most decisive event in the history of modern Ireland. In a country of eight million people, the Famine caused the death of approximately one million, while a similar number were forced to emigrate. The Irish population fell to just over four million by the beginning of the twentieth century. Christine Kinealy's survey is long established as the most complete, scholarly survey of the Great Famine yet produced. First published in 1994, This Great Calamity remains an exhaustive and indefatigable look into the event that defined Ireland as we know it today.
King Leopold's Ghost
Author: Adam HochschildPublisher: Picador
ISBN: 1760785202
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
With an introduction by award-winning novelist Barbara Kingsolver In the late nineteenth century, when the great powers in Europe were tearing Africa apart and seizing ownership of land for themselves, King Leopold of Belgium took hold of the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. In his devastatingly barbarous colonization of this area, Leopold stole its rubber and ivory, pummelled its people and set up a ruthless regime that would reduce the population by half. . While he did all this, he carefully constructed an image of himself as a deeply feeling humanitarian. Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize in 1999, King Leopold’s Ghost is the true and haunting account of this man’s brutal regime and its lasting effect on a ruined nation. It is also the inspiring and deeply moving account of a handful of missionaries and other idealists who travelled to Africa and unwittingly found themselves in the middle of a gruesome holocaust. Instead of turning away, these brave few chose to stand up against Leopold. Adam Hochschild brings life to this largely untold story and, crucially, casts blame on those responsible for this atrocity.
John Hamilton of Donegal, 1800-1884
Author: Dermot JamesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Only a minority of 19th century Irish landlords were benevolent, and few treated their tenants with such consideration as did John Hamilton of Donegal, who almost bankrupted himself in the process. His tenants had good reason to value this humane and progressive proprietor who was well-traveled and spoke six languages. He kept a journal -- upon which this book is based -- recording events on his estate and during his travels around Ireland and on the continent.
Author: Bernard Quaritch