Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
The Collins Family History
Author: The Collins Family History
Author: Ronald Wayne CollinsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Who are We?
Author: John CollinsPublisher:
ISBN: 9780646547244
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky
Author: Lewis CollinsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Kentucky
Languages : en
Pages : 890
Book Description
Michael Collins
Author: Anne DolanPublisher: Gill & Macmillan Ltd
ISBN: 178841053X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 587
Book Description
'It was the most providential escape yet. It will probably have the effect of making them think that I am even more mysterious than they believe me to be, and that is saying a good deal.' Michael Collins knew the power of his persona, and capitalised on what people wanted to believe. The image we have of him comes filtered through a sensational lens, exaggerated out of all proportion. We see what we have come to expect: 'the man who won the war', the centre of a web of intelligence that 'brought the British Empire to its knees'. He comes to us as a mixture of truth and lies, propaganda and misunderstanding. The willingness to see him as the sum of the Irish revolution, and in turn reduce him to a caricature of his many parts, clouds our view of both the man and the revolution. Drawing on archives in Ireland, Britain and the United States, the authors question our traditional assumptions about Collins. Was he the man of his age, or was he just luckier, more brazen, more written about and more photographed than the rest? Despite the pictures of him in uniform during the last weeks of his life, Collins saw very little of the actual fight. He was chiefly an organiser and a strategist. Should we remember him as a master of the mundane rather than the romantic figure of the blockbuster film? The eight thematic, highly illustrated chapters scrutinise different aspects of Collins' life: origins, work, war, politics, celebrity, beliefs, death and afterlives. Approaching him through the eyes of contemporaries and historians, friends and enemies, this provocative book reveals new insights, challenging what we think we know about him and, in turn, what we think we know about the Irish revolution.
Tales from the Big Thicket
Author: Francis Edward AbernethyPublisher: University of North Texas Press
ISBN: 9781574411423
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Abernethy presents the history and folklore of the Big Thicket and its people, including a collection of Alabama-Coushatta tales, a search for hidden Jayhawkers during the Civil War, a nineteenth-century travel account, and a family history of the legendary Hooks.
The Family Plot
Author: Megan CollinsPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982163852
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
"At twenty-six, Dahlia Lighthouse has a lot to learn when it comes to the real world. Raised in a secluded island mansion deep in the woods and kept isolated by her true crime-obsessed parents, she spent the last several years living on her own, but unable to move beyond her past-especially the disappearance of her twin brother Andy when they were sixteen. With her father's death, Dahlia returns to the house she has avoided for years. But the rest of the Lighthouse family arrives for the memorial, a gruesome discovery is made: buried in the reserved plot is another body-Andy's, his skill split open with an ax. Each member of the family handles the revelation in unusual ways. Her brother Charlie pours his energy into creating a family memorial museum, highlighting their research into the lives of famous murder victims; her sister Tate forges ahead with her popular dioramas portraying crime scenes; and their mother affects a cheerfully domestic facade, becoming unrecognizable as the woman who performed murder reenactments for her children. As Dahlia grapples with her own grief and horror, she realizes that her eccentric family, and the mansion itself, may hold the answers to what happened to her twin"--
Genealogies in the Library of Congress
Author: Marion J. KaminkowPublisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 9780806316642
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 926
Book Description
Vol 1 905p Vol 2 961p.
The Long Shadow of the Civil War
Author: Victoria E. BynumPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 080789821X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
The Long Shadow of the Civil War relates uncommon narratives about common Southern folks who fought not with the Confederacy, but against it. Focusing on regions in three Southern states--North Carolina, Mississippi, and Texas--Victoria E. Bynum introduces Unionist supporters, guerrilla soldiers, defiant women, socialists, populists, free blacks, and large interracial kin groups that belie stereotypes of Southerners as uniformly supportive of the Confederate cause. Centered on the concepts of place, family, and community, Bynum's insightful and carefully documented work effectively counters the idea of a unified South caught in the grip of the Lost Cause.
Genealogical and Family History of the State of Connecticut
Author: William Richard CutterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Connecticut
Languages : en
Pages : 488
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