Author: Michael DOHENYPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
The Felon's Track: a Narrative Of'48. Embracing the Leading Events in the Irish Struggle from the Year 1843 to the Close of 1848 ... Second Edition. Edited by M. J. Doheny
Author: Michael DOHENYThe Catalpa Rescue
Author: Peter FitzSimonsPublisher: Hachette Australia
ISBN: 0733641253
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
The incredible true story of one of the most extraordinary and inspirational prison breaks in Australian history. New York, 1874. Members of the Clan-na-Gael - agitators for Irish freedom from the English yoke - hatch a daring plan to free six Irish political prisoners from the most remote prison in the British Empire, Fremantle Prison in Western Australia. Under the guise of a whale hunt, Captain Anthony sets sail on the Catalpa to rescue the men from the stone walls of this hell on Earth known to the inmates as a 'living tomb'. What follows is one of history's most stirring sagas that splices Irish, American, British and Australian history together in its climactic moment. For Ireland, who had suffered English occupation for 700 years, a successful escape was an inspirational call to arms. For America, it was a chance to slap back at Britain for their support of the South in the Civil War; for England, a humiliation. And for a young Australia, still not sure if it was Great Britain in the South Seas or worthy of being an independent country in its own right, it was proof that Great Britain was not unbeatable. Told with FitzSimons' trademark combination of arresting history and storytelling verve, The Catalpa Rescue is a tale of courage and cunning, the fight for independence and the triumph of good men, against all odds.
Literature and the Irish Famine 1845-1919
Author: Melissa FeganPublisher: Clarendon Press
ISBN: 0191555002
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
The impact of the Irish famine of 1845-1852 was unparalleled in both political and psychological terms. The effects of famine-related mortality and emigration were devastating, in the field of literature no less than in other areas. In this incisive new study, Melissa Fegan explores the famine's legacy to literature, tracing it in the work of contemporary writers and their successors, down to 1919. Dr Fegan examines both fiction and non-fiction, including journalism, travel-narratives and the Irish novels of Anthony Trollope. She argues that an examination of famine literature that simply categorizes it as 'minor' or views it only as a silence or an absence misses the very real contribution that it makes to our understanding of the period. This is an important contribution to the study of Irish history and literature, sharply illuminating contemporary Irish mentalities.
The Felon's Track; Or, History of the Late Attempted Outbreak in Ireland: Embracing the Leading Events in the Irish Struggle, from the Year 1843, to the Close of 1848
Author: Michael DohenyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
The Felon's Track, Or, History of the Attempted Outbreak in Ireland
Author: Michael DohenyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
The Felon's Track
Author: Michael DohenyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Bulletin
Author: Cincinnati (Ohio), Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Thomas D'Arcy Mcgee
Author: David WilsonPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773575146
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
A brilliant writer, outstanding orator, and charismatic politician, Thomas D'Arcy McGee is best known for his prominent role in Irish-Canadian politics, his inspirational speeches in support of Canadian Confederation, and his assassination by an Irish revolutionary who accused him of betraying his earlier Irish nationalist principles. Thomas D'Arcy McGee, the first volume in a two-part biography, explores the development of those principles in Ireland and the United States. David Wilson follows McGee from Wexford, Ireland across the Atlantic to Boston, where at nineteen he became the editor of America's leading Irish newspaper, and traces his subsequent involvement with the Young Ireland movement, his reactions to the Famine, and his role in the Rising of 1848. Wilson goes on to examine McGee's experiences as a political refugee in the United States, where his increasing disillusionment with revolutionary Irish nationalism and his opposition to American nativism propelled him towards conservative Catholicism and sent him on a trajectory that ultimately led to Canada - his experiences are the subject of volume 2, Thomas D'Arcy McGee: The Extreme Moderate, 1857-1868.
Sadliers' Catholic Directory, Almanac and Ordo
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1214
Book Description
"With a full report of the various dioceses in the United States and British North America, and a list of archbishops, bishops, and priests in Ireland.
Annual List of Books Added to the Public Library of Cincinnati
Author: Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton CountyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description