Author: Publisher: John Cunningham
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Fermanagh In Sight. The Fermanagh Highlands
Author: Fermanagh in Sight
Author: Gail Mc GowanPublisher:
ISBN: 9781907530081
Category : Fermanagh (Northern Ireland)
Languages : en
Pages : 47
Book Description
The Naked Hermit
Author: Nick Mayhew-SmithPublisher: SPCK
ISBN: 0281077355
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
Descending into the darkness of a long-abandoned hermit's cave, wading naked into an icy sea to pray, spending the night on a sacred mountain, Nick Mayhew-Smith recounts an extraordinary one-man mission to revive the ancient devotions of Britain's most enigmatic holy places. Based on ground-breaking research into the transition from Paganism to Christianity, this book invites the reader on a journey into the heart of the Celtic wilderness, exploring the deep-seated impulse to mark natural places as holy. It ends with a vision of how we can recover our harmony with the rest of creation: with the landscape, the weather and the wildlife, and ultimately with the body itself. Follow the footsteps of holy men and women such as Columba, Patrick, Cuthbert, Gildas, Aidan, Bede, Ninian, Etheldreda, Samson and others into enchanting Celtic landscapes, and learn the unvarnished truth behind the stories that shape our spiritual and natural heritage.
The Book of British Topography
Author: John Parker AndersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : British Isles
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Ulster Journal of Archaeology
Author: The Sons of Molly Maguire
Author: Mark BulikPublisher: Fordham University Press
ISBN: 0823262251
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Sensational tales of true-life crime, the devastation of the Irish potato famine, the upheaval of the Civil War, and the turbulent emergence of the American labor movement are connected in a captivating exploration of the roots of the Molly Maguires. A secret society of peasant assassins in Ireland that re-emerged in Pennsylvania’s hard-coal region, the Mollies organized strikes, murdered mine bosses, and fought the Civil War draft. Their shadowy twelve-year duel with all powerful coal companies marked the beginning of class warfare in America. But little has been written about the origins of this struggle and the folk culture that informed everything about the Mollies. A rare book about the birth of the secret society, The Sons of Molly Maguire delves into the lost world of peasant Ireland to uncover the astonishing links between the folk justice of the Mollies and the folk drama of the Mummers, who performed a holiday play that always ended in a mock killing. The link not only explains much about Ireland’s Molly Maguires—where the name came from, why the killers wore women’s clothing, why they struck around holidays—but also sheds new light on the Mollies’ re-emergence in Pennsylvania. The book follows the Irish to the anthracite region, which was transformed into another Ulster by ethnic, religious, political, and economic conflicts. It charts the rise there of an Irish secret society and a particularly political form of Mummery just before the Civil War, shows why Molly violence was resurrected amid wartime strikes and conscription, and explores how the cradle of the American Mollies became a bastion of later labor activism. Combining sweeping history with an intensely local focus, The Sons of Molly Maguire is the captivating story of when, where, how, and why the first of America’s labor wars began.
Sketches of the Highlands of Cavan
Author: Looker onPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cavan (Ireland : County)
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Sketches of the Highlands of Cavan, and of Shirley Castle, in Farney, Taken During the Irish Famine
Author: R. McCullamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cavan (Ireland : County)
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Geology of the Country Around Derrygonnelly and Marble Arch
Author: I. C. LeggThe Book of British Topography. A Classified Catalogue of the Topographical Works in the Library of the British Museum Relating to Great Britain and Ireland
Author: John Parker AndersonPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385430143
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.