Author: Harriet MartineauPublisher: London : J. Chapman
ISBN:
Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Letters from Ireland
Author: Harriet MartineauPublisher: London : J. Chapman
ISBN:
Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
The Presidents' Letters
Author: Flor MacCarthyPublisher:
ISBN: 9781848408746
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A gorgeously produced homage to the art of the letter, comprising letters to and from the Presidents of Ireland.
So Far From Home
Author: Patricia Trainor O'Malley, PH DPublisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
This is the story in letters of two Irish families, the Donovans of Dreenlamane, Ballydehob and the McCarthys of Ballinlough, Leap. Both homes were in south-western County Cork. They were ordinary farming families in 19th century Ireland. The usual tools of genealogy provide us with the bare bones of the individuals in the story. We can learn about births, family names, marriages, and deaths. But, by a series of unexpected coincidences, we have been given flesh for those bones. The names and dates provided by genealogy have been given personalities and voices and individuality. We know their words and ideas, joys and fears, the inner concerns and shared touches of humor, because the Donovans and the McCarthys wrote letters to their family in America. And one Donovan and one McCarthy saved the letters. These 200 letters have much in common, though the families who saved them did not. They were written in the late nineteenth-early twentieth century, many of them in Ireland, others by immigrant friends in America. The recipients in all cases were Irish immigrants, with the vast majority of the letters being sent within the first five years of their arrival in America. The two major recipients, Dan Donovan and Nora McCarthy resided in Haverhill, a shoe manufacturing center in the northeast corner of Massachusetts. Combined, they offer a rare retrospect of the daily rural life west of Cork and the Irish perception of life in America.
Letters from Ireland
Author: H. B.Letters from Ireland, MDCCCXXXVII.
Author: Charlotte ElizabethPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Letters from Ireland During the Famine of 1847
Author: Alexander SomervillePublisher:
ISBN: 9780716525455
Category : English letters
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Somerville's account of the Irish Famine was first published in 1852, but was contained within a much longer three-volume work on free trade, titled The Whistler at the Plough, and has remained relatively unknown to historians. Among its strengths are its descriptions of rural hardship, its efforts to understand why Ireland was suffering, its personal account of the famine, its use of verbatim evidence, and the author's empathy with the Irish and English poor. Includes a detailed introduction by editor Snell. Distributed by ISBS. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Letters from Ireland, MDCCCXXXVII
Author: Charlotte Elizabeth [(Browne) Phelan] [Tonna]Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Letters from Ireland, MDCCCXXXVII. By Charlotte Elizabeth
Author: Charlotte Elizabeth TonnaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
State of Ireland. Letters from Ireland, on the present political, religious, & moral state of that country. Republished from the “Courier” newspaper, with emendations & notes
Author: IrelandStraight from the Heart
Author: Bridget HouricanPublisher: Gill & Macmillan
ISBN: 9780717150250
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
From the early Gaels to Hugh Leonard, Irish people have been seducing, cajoling, stalking, obsessing, throwing jealous fits, begging marriage, urging adultery, mourning lost loves, plotting new loves, threatening to kill themselves, and addressing moving last words to loved ones before going to their deaths all through the medium of the written word. Straight from the Heart is both a beautiful gift book and a piece of fascinating social history. It comprises more than 60 love letters ranging in time from 1694 to 1998. Bridget Hourican's brilliant selection includes Yeats to Maud Gonne, correspondence between the tragic Francis Sheehy Skeffington and his wife Hannah as well as that between James Joyce and Nora Barnacle. Three of the 1916 leaders, Thomas McDonagh, Joseph M Plunkett and Eamonn Ceannt are here as well as Michael Collins, John Millington Synge and George Bernard Shaw. It even includes a love letter from Eamonn DeValera to his wife Sinead. Most touchingly we have a letter from Patrick Kavanagh to Hilda Moriarty, the beauty for whom he wrote Raglan Road. The book also includes some ordinary people - letters from the Front and from emigrants writing home to their sweethearts - and these are often as eloquent and heartbreaking as those written by the literati or historical giants as love can raise any man (or woman) to passion.