Author: John MartinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Letters on the Irish National Question
Author: John MartinMy Father Left Me Ireland
Author: Michael Brendan DoughertyPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0525538674
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 Drapier's Letters
Author: Jonathan SwiftPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coinage
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
The Irish Church Question: a Letter to ... Lord Dufferin, on Some Remarks of His Respecting the Irish Church in His Recent Address, Delivered at Belfast, ... Sept. 18, 1867 ... Second Edition
Author: Alfred Theophilus LEEPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
News Letter of the Irish National Bureau
Author: The Irish Question
Author: Lawrence John McCaffreyPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 9780813108551
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
From 1800 to 1922 the Irish Question was the most emotional and divisive issue in British politics. It pitted Westminster politicians, anti-Catholic British public opinion, and Irish Protestant and Presbyterian champions of the Union against the determination of Ireland's large Catholic majority to obtain civil rights, economic justice, and cultural and political independence. In this completely revised and updated edition of The Irish Question, Lawrence J. McCaffrey extends his classic analysis of Irish nationalism to the present day. He makes clear the tortured history of British-Irish relations and offers insight into the difficulties now facing those who hope to create a permanent peace in Northern Ireland.
Dr. Ryerson's Letters in reply to the attacks of the Hon. George Brown [upon the School System of Upper Canada]. ... with notes and an appendix
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Author: Egerton RyersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Church and education
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
The Speeches and Public Letters of the Liberator; with Preface and Historical Notes
Author: Mary Francis CusackPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385369738
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
The Irish National Invincibles and Their Times
Author: Patrick J. P. TynanPublisher: London, Chatham
ISBN:
Category : IRELAND HISTORY 1868-
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
Taxation, Politics, and Protest in Ireland, 1662–2016
Author: Douglas KanterPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3030043096
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
This book examines the politics of taxation in Ireland between the seventeenth and twenty-first centuries. Combining political, economic, and policy history, it contributes to a growing interdisciplinary literature on public finance, while also providing context for the ongoing debate on taxation and austerity in post-Celtic Tiger Ireland. Taxation, Politics, and Protest in Ireland illuminates a neglected aspect of Irish history, and will be of interest to scholars, policymakers, and members of the public who wish to understand a subject that is central to the modern Irish experience.