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Download or read book Blarney Castle & Gardens written by Scala and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 2017-07-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blarney Castle is one of Ireland's most popular attractions, and with new photography of both the castle and grounds, this guide gives a concise overview of the history, as well as the myths and stories that surround the venue. Built nearly six hundred years ago by one of Ireland's greatest chieftans, Cormack MacCarthy, Blarney Castle is one of Ireland's most visited monuments. Every year thousands flock to visit the ancient castle and walk through its delightful gardens - and to kiss the Blarney Stone, the legendary Stone of Eloquence, which sits at the top of the tower. The castle and gardens are steeped in the history of Ireland; they are a place of mystery, magic and storytelling, in the great Irish tradition. This richly illustrated book presents Blarney in all its glory, giving historical context, a comprehensive tour of the castle, manor house and garden, and a taste of the many myths and legends that draw visitors from all over the world to Blarney today. On this virtual journey, stand on the upper ramparts, look down across 60 acres of sprawling parkland, including gardens, avenues, arboretums and waterways, and experience Blarney at its best.
Download or read book Blarney Castle written by James Lyttleton and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blarney Castle, the medieval home of the MacCarthy lords of Muskerry, is one of Ireland's best-known castles. Many visitors to Ireland include a trip to the castle in their itinerary, often lining up to kiss the Blarney Stone in hope of acquiring the 'gift of the gab.' Yet despite the castle's ubiquitous image on postcards and tourist promotional literature, there is little acknowledgment of the building's historical and archaeological significance as a native lordly residence. This book brings the castle's architecture to the fore, placing it in the context of an expansive native lordship in late medieval Munster, and showing how changes in the layout and appearance of the building can be attributed to the castle's occupants, who continued to redefine their social standing and cultural identity through the Tudor reconquest and beyond.
Book Synopsis Researches in the South of Ireland by : Thomas Crofton Croker
Download or read book Researches in the South of Ireland written by Thomas Crofton Croker and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Gran Kissed the Blarney Stone by : Luann Koester
Download or read book Gran Kissed the Blarney Stone written by Luann Koester and published by . This book was released on 2021-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Irish Garden written by Jane Powers and published by Frances Lincoln. This book was released on 2015-04-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visit over forty of Ireland's most beautiful gardens without moving from your armchair with this stunning book, ranging from the grand old demesnes of the Anglo-Irish ascendancy to the intensely personal creations of passionate plantsmen and garden makers. Visitors to Ireland are often surprised at the 'palm trees' that make so many gardens look as if they belong in a holiday postcard. How can such exotics survive on an island that is as far north as the prairies of Canada and the pine forests of Siberia? The answer lies in the tail of the Gulf Stream - the North Atlantic Drift - which wraps around this green land on the western edge of Europe. Its warm and watery embrace bestows the renowned 'soft' climate that allows those palm trees (in fact, New Zealand cordylines) to make their homes here - along with tree ferns from Australia and bananas from Japan. Plants from colder regions, including rhododendrons, primulas and all manner of alpines, are equally happy. So, with a range of plants that runs from the subtropical to the subarctic, and a landscape that varies from gently pastoral to savagely rugged, the aptly named Emerald Isle has some of the most romantic and interesting gardens in the world. The result of a lifetime visiting, considering and writing about gardens in Ireland, and several years of dedicated photography, this is a truly comprehensive exploration of a fascinating subject.
Book Synopsis Exploring Ireland's Castles by : Tarquin Blake
Download or read book Exploring Ireland's Castles written by Tarquin Blake and published by Collins Books. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether ruined or opulant, castles can fire the imagination. Here is a breathtaking tour of some of Ireland's lesser known castles, accompanied by hundreds of color photos, and true stories of duels, derring-do, and defiance.
Book Synopsis Twenty Years A-Growing by : Maurice O'Sullivan
Download or read book Twenty Years A-Growing written by Maurice O'Sullivan and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1998 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of a boy's growing up on the Great Blasket, a sparsely inhabited, Gaelic-speaking island off the coast of Ireland. It tells of the simple life of a society that no longer exists, with a humor and poetry refreshingly remote from the modern world that replaced it.
Book Synopsis A Ghost in the Throat by : Doireann Ní Ghríofa
Download or read book A Ghost in the Throat written by Doireann Ní Ghríofa and published by Biblioasis. This book was released on 2021-05-27 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Post Irish Book Awards Nonfiction Book of the Year • A Guardian Best Book of 2020 • Shortlisted for the 2021 Rathbones Folio Prize • Longlisted for the 2021 Republic of Consciousness Prize • Winner of the James Tait Black Biography Prize • A New York Times New & Noteworthy Title • Longlisted for the 2021 Gordon Burn Prize • A Buzzfeed Recommended Summer Read • A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2021 • A Book Riot Best Book of 2022 • An NPR Best Book of 2021 • A Chicago Public Library Best Book of 2021 • A Globe and Mail Book of the Year • A Winnipeg Free Press Top Read of 2021 • An Entropy Magazine Best of the Year • A LitHub Best Book of 2021 • A New York Times Critics' Top Book of 2021 • A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist When we first met, I was a child, and she had been dead for centuries. On discovering her murdered husband’s body, an eighteenth-century Irish noblewoman drinks handfuls of his blood and composes an extraordinary lament. Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill’s poem travels through the centuries, finding its way to a new mother who has narrowly avoided her own fatal tragedy. When she realizes that the literature dedicated to the poem reduces Eibhlín Dubh’s life to flimsy sketches, she wants more: the details of the poet’s girlhood and old age; her unique rages, joys, sorrows, and desires; the shape of her days and site of her final place of rest. What follows is an adventure in which Doireann Ní Ghríofa sets out to discover Eibhlín Dubh’s erased life—and in doing so, discovers her own. Moving fluidly between past and present, quest and elegy, poetry and those who make it, A Ghost in the Throat is a shapeshifting book: a record of literary obsession; a narrative about the erasure of a people, of a language, of women; a meditation on motherhood and on translation; and an unforgettable story about finding your voice by freeing another’s.
Book Synopsis Welcome to the Urban Revolution by : Jeb Brugmann
Download or read book Welcome to the Urban Revolution written by Jeb Brugmann and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-04-27 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author argues that urban locations are ideal for technological, economic, and social innovation.
Book Synopsis Official Views of the World's Columbian Exposition by :
Download or read book Official Views of the World's Columbian Exposition written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Castles of Scotland by : Martin Coventry
Download or read book Castles of Scotland written by Martin Coventry and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A must for all those who want to visit Scotland's many castles. The book covers all of the coutry's famous strongholds, as well as many lesser-known places, with location, access, visitor facilities, and contact details. There is a map, many photos, a glossary of architectural terms, and a family-name index, allowing the reader to identify any castle associated with their family.
Book Synopsis The Year I Made 12 Dresses by : Patricia J. Parsons
Download or read book The Year I Made 12 Dresses written by Patricia J. Parsons and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-10 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A struggling writer, an enigmatic shop clerk, an old sewing machine and an inspirational journey of discovery - where every dress is more than it appears to be. Charlotte "Charlie" Hudson is a thirty-something underachiever, at least according to her over-achieving sister, Evelyn. When their mother dies unexpectedly, Evelyn pressures Charlie into moving back into the old family home to clear it out and prepare it for sale. Charlie's mom had always been supportive, in more ways than one, of Charlie's passion for being a writer, a passion that took her through graduate school and onto a non-existent career. Evelyn graduated from law school, clearing the way for her to a career as a well-regarded litigator. So, it seemed natural for Charlie to move in and look after their mother's affairs. When she discovers a dusty, old sewing machine and boxes filled with sewing-related items Charlie has never seen before in the basement, hidden among the detritus that makes up a life, Charlie embarks on a journey of self-discovery. Aided and abetted by Al, the fabric whisperer/sales clerk, Charlie learns not only about the fine art of sewing dresses, but also the fine art of understanding families, and way more about her mother than she ever dreamed she didn't already know - one dress at a time. Along the way, Charlie begins to see herself and her life in unexpected ways. With an old sewing machine as her guide, Charlie takes us on an "Eat, Pray Love" kind of journey for the rest of us without ever having to leave home. Join Charlie and Al on their inspirational journey of discovery where every dress is more than it appears to be
Book Synopsis Everything Beautiful Began After by : Simon Van Booy
Download or read book Everything Beautiful Began After written by Simon Van Booy and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-07-05 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Apowerful meditation on the undying nature of love and the often cruel beauty ofone’s own fate. This is a novel you simply must read!” —Andre Dubus III, New York Times bestselling author of Townie From Simon Van Booy, the award-winning author of Love Begins in Winter and The Secret Lives of People in Love, comes a debut novel of longing and discovery amidst the ruins of Athens. With echoes of Nicole Krauss’s The History of Love and Charles Baxter’s The Feast of Love, Van Booy’s resonant tale of three isolated, disaffected adults discovering one another in Greece is the compelling product of an inquisitive, visionary talent. In the words of Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, “Simon Van Booy knows a great deal about the complex longings of the human heart.”
Book Synopsis Pacata Hibernia by : George Carew Totnes
Download or read book Pacata Hibernia written by George Carew Totnes and published by Franklin Classics. This book was released on 2018-10-10 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Ireland written by Kevin Eyres and published by . This book was released on 2008-04-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows Ireland in all its beauty. From well-loved spots to seldom-seen vistas, this little book covers the whole of the Emerald Isle from Ulster North to Munster South, from Giant's Causeway to the Cliffs of Moher.
Download or read book Botanical Sketchbooks written by and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 2017-05-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recording the world of plant and animal life and documenting the strange beauty of the natural world have been human passions ever since the first cave paintings. While there are many histories of botanical art featuring beautiful paintings and finished drawings, the artists' preparatory sketches, first impressions, and scribbled notes on paper are rarely seen. But it is often these early attempts that give us real insight into the firsthand experiences and adventures of the botanists, artists, collectors, and explorers behind them. This exquisite visual compendium of botanical sketches by eighty artists from around the world brings these personal and vividly spontaneous records back into the light. Filled with remarkable images from the fifteenth to the twentieth centuries, sourced from the unparalleled collections of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Library, Art & Archives, and other libraries, museums, and archives, Botanical Sketchbooks also provides fascinating biographical portraits of the intriguing characters featured within, including such renowned artists, scientists, and amateur botanists as Leonardo da Vinci, Georg Dionysius Ehret, Carl Linnaeus, Maria Sibylla Merian, Mark Catesby, and Helen and Margaret Shelley (sisters of the novelist Mary Shelley), among many others.
Book Synopsis Official Guide to Blarney Castle by : Penelope Hamilton
Download or read book Official Guide to Blarney Castle written by Penelope Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
