Author: Seosamh Ó CinnéidePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
The Monastic Heritage & Folklore of County Laois
Author: Seosamh Ó CinnéidePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Stones of Adoration
Author: Christine ZucchelliPublisher: Collins Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
"Different beliefs, practices and rituals behind the notion of their magical powers and virtues are revealed. The situations in which people resorted to them are also examined: selecting chieftains, establishing the truth, curing sickness, and promoting fertility. In conclusion, the role of sacred stones in the religious and spiritual life of modern Ireland is described. This is a reminder of our spiritual past as some of these stones and monuments enter their fifth millennium."--Jacket.
Irish Economic and Social History
Author: Irish High Crosses
Author: Roger StalleyPublisher: Town House
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
A study of the form, function & mystery of these Christian monuments scattered across Ireland.
Tullamore
Author: Michael ByrnePublisher:
ISBN: 9780954872052
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Michael Byrne, a Tullamore solicitor, is a prolific historian of the town and of Co Offaly. Fergal MacCabe, also a Tullamore native, is a well-known architect and town planner. In this book they have collaborated to produce a book that combines Byrne's lively text and MacCabe's sketches, watercolours and architectural drawings.
The Wildflowers of Offaly
Author: John FeehanPublisher: Mercier Press Ltd
ISBN: 9781856356732
Category : Wild flowers
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
"Most books on wildflowers are concerned mainly with points of identification and distribution. The Wildflowers of Offaly is unique in the way it attempts to describe the character of the plants: their ecological preferences, their uses and the beliefs associated with them, and in particular the extraordinary diversity of the strategies they have evolved to ensure pollination and the production of seed. This is the book to consult when you have made a tentative identification of a wildflower and want to know more about its lifestyle. It is illustrated throughout in full colour with photographs and a selection of plates from many of the classic older floras of northern Europe."--Publisher's description.
Schooling in Ireland
Author: John Stocks PowellPublisher:
ISBN: 9781909822252
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
Some locations are associated by attractions such as Blarney for its castle; or a trade and manufacture, as Belfast was for shipbuilding, and Kinsale is now for restaurants and gourmets. Portarlington in County Laois, has been associated with a French speaking Huguenot colony, as nearby Mountmellick is with Quakers. These on-the-lip identities long used may diminish others. For over two hundred years small Portarlington experienced a clustering of schools: a local industry offering income from parents, employment and provisioning. French speaking schools, Latin homework under floorboards, pupils becoming famous, such as Edward Carson, Oscar Wilde's court prosecutor, and bringing the country to civil war with his struggle for the British union: the Chartist leader Feargus O'Connor, trying to elope with his headmaster's daughter. There's the headmaster whose pupils were escorted away during the 1798 rebellion, and another headmaster who took his school away, in flight and fright during the Land League of the 1880s. Histories carry wider themes, such as: how long was childhood? How was the young brain filled? Textbooks, rules and rulers. What was the value on languages, Irish? English literature? French grammar? Could Huguenot dialects be teachable? Why did sport become so important? And the poor children; too much education to make them think, spinning wheels for those girls; whereas Mrs Despard's borders not turned out to spin or cook, but to marry well. In a small town the encompassing of education in its failures, triumphs, hierarchies and finances, the ideas and faces of childhood are revealed.
Sheela-na-gigs
Author: Barbara FreitagPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134282494
Category : Art
Languages : ru
Pages : 228
Book Description
A study of the mysterious stone carvings of naked females exposing their genitals on medieval churches all over the British Isles.
Ambition and Achievement
Author: Fergal MacCabePublisher:
ISBN: 9781527218765
Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
Museums of the World
Author: Michael ZilsPublisher: München [Germany] : K.G. Saur
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 836
Book Description
"This guide should greatly assist public and academic librarians and their users." JOURNAL OF ACADEMIC LIBRARIANSHIP "Museums of the World is an essential tool." -AMERICAN REFERENCE BOOKS ANNUAL Completely updated with data supplied by museum administrators and staff, Museums of the World provides valuable information and insight on some 39,000 museums worldwide. Organized by country and city within individual nations, each detailed museum profile includes address...e-mail addresses...websites...telephone and fax numbers...description of holdings and facilities...director's name...and more. This indispensable resource also includes three indexes - Names Index for Museums, Name Index for Persons, and Subject Index - to make research easier. The particularly useful Subject Index offers cross-referenced headings for such diverse areas as Aeronautics, Arms and Armor, Graphic Arts, Indian Artifacts, Jewelry, Painted and Stained Glass, and Railroads. from K. G. Saur.