Author: George A. BirminghamPublisher: London ; Edinburgh : T.N. Foulis
ISBN:
Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Irishmen All
Author: George A. BirminghamPublisher: London ; Edinburgh : T.N. Foulis
ISBN:
Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
The United Irishmen
Author: Richard Robert MaddenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 714
Book Description
The United Irishmen, Their Lives and Times
Author: Richard Robert MaddenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 714
Book Description
All Standing
Author: Kathryn MilesPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451610157
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The enthralling, true tale of a celebrated “coffin ship” that ran between Ireland and America in the 1840s: “By turns harrowing and heartwarming…All Standing salvages the treasure of a history lost at sea” (J.C. Hallman, author of The Devil Is a Gentleman). More than one million immigrants fled the Irish famine for North America—and more than one hundred thousand of them perished aboard the “coffin ships” that crossed the Atlantic. But one small ship never lost a passenger. All Standing recounts the remarkable tale of the Jeanie Johnston and her ingenious crew, whose eleven voyages are the stuff of legend. Why did these individuals succeed while so many others failed? And what new lives in America were the ship’s passengers seeking? In this deeply researched and powerfully told story, acclaimed author Kathryn Miles re-creates life aboard this amazing vessel, richly depicting the bravery and defiance of its shipwright, captain, and doctor—and one Irish family’s search for the American dream.
On Every Tide
Author: Sean ConnollyPublisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 140870949X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
ON EVERY TIDE is a wide-ranging and challenging reassessment of the Irish diaspora. Drawing on the latest ground-breaking research, and his own career-long engagement with the complexities of Irish identity, Sean Connolly reveals the forces that compelled millions of Irish men and women to abandon their homeland, and explores their new lives in America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and elsewhere. What emerges is an Irish story, but also a chapter in world history. Irish emigrants fled a society blighted by poverty and lack of opportunity. But they also became part of a massive population movement, driven by the requirements of an ever more interconnected world economy, that transported the adventurous and the desperate to new parts of the globe. What distinguishes the Irish from tens of millions of other European immigrants is the position they established in their new homes. Initially treated as a despised and exploited underclass, they created a commanding position, in politics, in the labour movement, and, by the twentieth century, as cultural icons. From his starting point in the grim realities of Famine and social crisis, Sean Connolly takes the reader forward into the twentieth century, when Ireland itself has become a receiver rather than an exporter of emigrants, and when a reimagined Irishness has become a commodity to be marketed to a global audience. On Every Tide plays directly into wider, contemporary debates about migration, as well as offering a unique and distinctive view of two hundred years of Irish history.
A History of Ireland in 250 Episodes – Everything You've Ever Wanted to Know About Irish History
Author: Jonathan BardonPublisher: Gill & Macmillan Ltd
ISBN: 0717157547
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 882
Book Description
THE ONLY BOOK ON IRISH HISTORY YOU'LL EVER NEED!From invasions to rebellions, heroic martyrs to pragmatic politicians, industrial development to mass emigration, A History of Ireland in 250 Episodes by renowned Irish historian Jonathan Bardon will take you on a sweeping journey through Irish history, getting behind the historical headlines to reveal the lived experience of Irish people.Written in easy-to-read bitesize episodes, Bardon's original and engaging style will make you feel as though you're alongside William Smith O'Brien and his rebels at the Battle of Widow McCormack's Cabbage Patch, traversing the country to banish snakes and convert Celts with St Patrick, and feasting with the Spanish Armada's Captain Francisco de Cuellar and his wild Irish hosts. From taking up arms with the United Irishmen at Vinegar Hill to standing in solidarity with the workers of the Dublin 1916 Lockout, A History of Ireland in 250 Episodes will take you right to the heart of Irish history.Featuring a cast of characters that leap off the page, from the well-known, like the hero of the War of Independence, Michael Collins, to the quirky, such as Susannah Cibber, the first soprano to sing Handel's Messiah, A History of 250 Episodes will thrill, excite and inform you from start to finish. Whether you dip in and out of episodes or devour it from cover to cover, Bardon's must-have book will teach you everything you've ever wanted to know about Irish history and much, much more beyond.
A History of Ireland
Author: Thomas MooneyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 1726
Book Description
The history of Ireland
Author: Thomas WrightA Gift from Ireland and the Past
Author: Mary DenunePublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0615258387
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Irish and other poetry from an old, cherished scrapbook
Ireland as It Is, and as It Would Be Under Home Rule
Author: Robert John BuckleyPublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Ireland as It Is, and as It Would Be Under Home Rule" by Robert John Buckley. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.