Author: Robert LyndPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Home Life in Ireland
Author: Robert LyndLife in Ireland
Author: Conor W. O'BrienPublisher: Merrion Press
ISBN: 1785373862
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
This is the story of life in Ireland – a story half a billion years in the making. With its castles, crannogs and passage tombs, Ireland is a land where history looms large, but the saga of life on this island dates back millions of years before the first people set foot here. In Life in Ireland, Conor O’Brien guides the reader on a journey around the island to explore the history of natural life here, from the Jurassic Coast of Antrim to the great Ice Age bone-beds of Cork. Along the way, we’ll meet some of the astonishing creatures to have called Ireland home through the ages: shelled monsters; huge marine lizards; armoured dinosaurs; giant deer; mighty mammoths. Vital strands in the story of life on Earth have left their mark here, including some of the first creatures to crawl onto land or take to the wing. This epic journey will take us from the first fossils to the present day, to see how our wildlife has adapted to the human age and explore what the future might hold for life in Ireland.
Family rhythms
Author: Jane GrayPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1784997846
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
This textbook draws on original in-depth interviews with people of different ages to introduce contemporary scholarship on the family and to illustrate how Irish families have adapted and changed over time
Family Rhythms
Author: Jane GrayPublisher:
ISBN: 9780719091513
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Family rhythms is the first textbook of its kind with an explicit focus on Ireland and Irish families. Uniquely, the book draws on original in-depth interviews with people of different ages to introduce contemporary scholarship on the family and to illustrate how Irish families have adapted and changed over time. With chapters on childhood, adolescence, parenting and grandparenthood, the book shows the resilience of families in different social and historical contexts. Each chapter includes a discussion of the challenges that face families and how social research can inform policy makers' responses. Family rhythms is a comprehensive, user-friendly textbook that offers a variety of strategies for engaging readers, including direct encounters with qualitative data through the use of classroom oriented discussion panels. Synopses of landmark Irish studies are included throughout, bringing the insights from these key studies together in a single textbook for the first time.
My Father Left Me Ireland
Author: Michael Brendan DoughertyPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0525538658
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
The perfect gift for parents this Father’s Day: a beautiful, gut-wrenching memoir of Irish identity, fatherhood, and what we owe to the past. “A heartbreaking and redemptive book, written with courage and grace.” –J.D. Vance, author of Hillbilly Elegy “…a lovely little book.” –Ross Douthat, The New York Times The child of an Irish man and an Irish-American woman who split up before he was born, Michael Brendan Dougherty grew up with an acute sense of absence. He was raised in New Jersey by his hard-working single mother, who gave him a passion for Ireland, the land of her roots and the home of Michael's father. She put him to bed using little phrases in the Irish language, sang traditional songs, and filled their home with a romantic vision of a homeland over the horizon. Every few years, his father returned from Dublin for a visit, but those encounters were never long enough. Devastated by his father's departures, Michael eventually consoled himself by believing that fatherhood was best understood as a check in the mail. Wearied by the Irish kitsch of the 1990s, he began to reject his mother's Irish nationalism as a romantic myth. Years later, when Michael found out that he would soon be a father himself, he could no longer afford to be jaded; he would need to tell his daughter who she is and where she comes from. He immediately re-immersed himself in the biographies of firebrands like Patrick Pearse and studied the Irish language. And he decided to reconnect with the man who had left him behind, and the nation just over the horizon. He began writing letters to his father about what he remembered, missed, and longed for. Those letters would become this book. Along the way, Michael realized that his longings were shared by many Americans of every ethnicity and background. So many of us these days lack a clear sense of our cultural origins or even a vocabulary for expressing this lack--so we avoid talking about our roots altogether. As a result, the traditional sense of pride has started to feel foreign and dangerous; we've become great consumers of cultural kitsch, but useless conservators of our true history. In these deeply felt and fascinating letters, Dougherty goes beyond his family's story to share a fascinating meditation on the meaning of identity in America.
The Green Road: A Novel
Author: Anne EnrightPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393248224
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
One of the Guardian's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century "With language so vibrant it practically has a pulse, Enright makes an exquisitely drawn case for the possibility of growth, love and transformation at any age." —People From internationally acclaimed author Anne Enright comes a shattering novel set in a small town on Ireland's Atlantic coast. The Green Road is a tale of family and fracture, compassion and selfishness—a book about the gaps in the human heart and how we strive to fill them. Spanning thirty years, The Green Road tells the story of Rosaleen, matriarch of the Madigans, a family on the cusp of either coming together or falling irreparably apart. As they grow up, Rosaleen's four children leave the west of Ireland for lives they could have never imagined in Dublin, New York, and Mali, West Africa. In her early old age their difficult, wonderful mother announces that she’s decided to sell the house and divide the proceeds. Her adult children come back for a last Christmas, with the feeling that their childhoods are being erased, their personal history bought and sold. A profoundly moving work about a family's desperate attempt to recover the relationships they've lost and forge the ones they never had, The Green Road is Enright's most mature, accomplished, and unforgettable novel to date.
Home Life in Ireland
Author: Robert LyndPublisher: Theclassics.Us
ISBN: 9781230423241
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER II FARMS AND FARMERS I Met a lady the other day who became very sorrowful over the condition of living into which the Irish farmer has now fallen. She recalled the days of her girlhood, when the house of the large farmer was a centre of hospitality and of a certain kind of culture. In those days it was not a surprising thing to see a new book--even a good book--on a farmer's table. Nowadays, one is astonished to see any new written matter there, except " The Freeman's Journal" or " The Northern Whig," or one of those useless series of volumes on religion or history, of which book-pedlars contrive to get rid on the instalment system. This lady's lamentation, I believe, had a heart of truth in it. It was not merely the regret of one who saw the past in rose-colour and the present through a grey rain of dullness. If you go into an old farm-house, the books that you see stored away in some shabby case, and the prints that you see hanging on the walls, tell you that a generation of men once lived here, who, if not supermen of taste, were at least giants in this respect compared with those who have come after them. The Irish farmer, indeed, the respectable son of the ragged soldier of the land wars, is a failure in the matter of fine living. When, instead of being the respectable son, he is the respectable transmogrification of the ragged land soldier, his case is little better. I use the word "ragged," let me say, in praise of good fighting, and not in any belittling sense, for, like most of the talking sort of people, I prefer rags to selfish respectability. And selfish respectability is the danger which at the present moment more than any other threatens the delightfulness and human richness of Irish country life. Of course, it is...
Home Life in Ireland (Classic Reprint)
Author: Robert LyndPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780332123967
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Excerpt from Home Life in Ireland I wish to thank Mrs N. F. Dryhurst and Mr J. W. Good for the help they gave me at various points while I was writing this book - help all the more generous because neither of them is likely to agree with all I say. Padraic O Coin ceannain will perhaps recognise something like the echo Of his voice in one of the chapters. Mr and Mrs Robert Steen may not see the image Of their kindness reflected in these pages, but it is none the less there, for it was in their house and in the house at Killure that I received the most abundant hospitality I have known, and was initiated into the friendship of country people and places. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Voices from the Great Houses of Ireland: Life in the Big House
Author: Jane O'KeeffePublisher: Mercier Press Ltd
ISBN: 1781171939
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Did you ever see a big house in the countryside and wonder who used to live in such a property? Have you ever wondered about the story behind such an old and historic house? This book reveals the story behind some of the greatest houses in Ireland. Maurice O'Keefe has interviewed the surviving members of many of the Anglo-Irish and old Irish families who lived, and in many cases still live, in these great houses. They have talked about their family histories, their links to the communities in which they are based and about the fascinating details of life in these houses. For the first time the families still living in and descendants of families that once lived in these houses speak about the ups and downs of life in Ireland from as far back as the 1600s. With previously unpublished photographs and untold stories, this is a must have book for those interested in the social history of Ireland.
Home Life in Ireland
Author: Robert LyndPublisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781343061576
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
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