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Buck Whaley

Author : David Ryan
Publisher : Merrion Press
ISBN 13 : 1785372319
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book Buck Whaley written by David Ryan and published by Merrion Press. This book was released on 2019-01-04 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas 'Buck' Whaley was one of the greatest adventurers in Irish history. In 1788 he made an extraordinary 10-month journey from Dublin to Jerusalem for a wager of £15,000, equivalent to several million today. Nearly shipwrecked in the Sea of Crete, he almost died of plague in Constantinople, narrowly avoided a pirate attack, was waylaid by bandits, and met an infamous Ottoman governor known as 'the Butcher'. On his return, he became an overnight celebrity before suffering a catastrophic series of gambling losses that exiled him first to continental Europe (where he attempted to rescue Louis XVI from the guillotine) and then to the Isle of Man. When he died aged 34 in 1800 he had squandered an astronomical £400,000 (around 100 million) 'without ever purchasing or acquiring contentment or one hour's true happiness'. In his lifetime, Ireland was about to erupt in rebellion; France was on the brink of bloody revolution; and the Ottoman Empire was creaking at the seams. Whaley lit up this volatile world like a fast-burning candle but retained his ability to recognise the absurdity of his own actions and the world around him. Buck Whaley tells the full story of his remarkable life and adventures for the first time.

Buck Whaley's Memoirs

Author : Thomas Whaley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Buck Whaley's Memoirs written by Thomas Whaley and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Speaker

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 650 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Speaker written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Impressions

Author : B. C. Mahtab
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Impressions written by B. C. Mahtab and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Bookman

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The Bookman written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Memorable Dublin Houses

Author : Wilmot Harrison
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Memorable Dublin Houses written by Wilmot Harrison and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Living Like a Lord

Author : W. A. Maguire
Publisher : Ulster Historical Foundation
ISBN 13 : 9781903688267
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (882 download)

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Download or read book Living Like a Lord written by W. A. Maguire and published by Ulster Historical Foundation. This book was released on 2002 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born and brought up in England, George Augustus Chichester, second Marquis of Donegall, inherited from his father in 1799 one of the greatest landed estates in Ireland—nearly a quarter of a million acres. Since the new Lord Donegall had hitherto spent much of his time gambling on borrowed money, a host of creditors now looked for payment. Donegall disputed the legality of many of the claimes, however, and retreated to Belfast where he defied all efforts to make him pay in full. He was to live in Belfast for the rest of his life, becoming notorious as the Marquis of Done ‘em all. The story of his prodigal son who became a prodigal father is full of fascinating glimpses of the lower life of the upper classes of his time—a world of debtors’ prisons, chancy deals, and Chancery proceedings. Apart from this Donegall’s career is interesting also for the curious affair of his marriage. When his eldest son was about to get married in 1819, Donegall’s own marriage to Anna May was declared illegal, more than twenty years after it had taken place. This made their seven children illegitimate and deprived them of their inheritance. Only a retrospective change in the law of matrimony (brought about by the Donegall case) saved the family from ruin. At a local level, Donegall’s presence in the town and his insatiable need for cash had a considerable, if unintended, effect on the development of Belfast. By seriously undermining the Chichester family’s wealth and influence he opened the way for the citizens to take its place.

The History of Irish Periodical Literature: From the End of the 17th to the Middle of the 19th Century

Author : Richard Robert Madden
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3752533366
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (525 download)

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Download or read book The History of Irish Periodical Literature: From the End of the 17th to the Middle of the 19th Century written by Richard Robert Madden and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2021-11-05 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1867.

Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country

Author : James Anthony Froude
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 836 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country written by James Anthony Froude and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 840 pages
Book Rating : 4.U/5 (183 download)

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Download or read book Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country written by and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Joyce's Portrait

Author : Thomas Connolly
Publisher : Ardent Media
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Joyce's Portrait written by Thomas Connolly and published by Ardent Media. This book was released on 1967 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

HellFire

Author : Mia Gallagher
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141905069
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book HellFire written by Mia Gallagher and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2007-05-31 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a midsummer’s evening a young Dublin woman, Lucy Dolan, prepares for a showdown that will help make sense of a heart-breaking and brutal atrocity that happened thirteen years earlier, changing her life forever. As she waits for the arrival of the charismatic figure who is the key to the mystery, she recounts her life story – a rich and extraordinary tale spanning two generations of storytellers and deal-makers, fortune-tellers and gamblers, businessmen and warlords, and the people that feared, served and betrayed them. With each twist of this tumultuous story Lucy revisits her childhood and early adolescence – trying to get her head around the things people do in the name of love and hate, greed and desire – and she pieces together afresh the events that led to the night that still haunts her.

Blasphemers and Blackguards

Author : David Ryan
Publisher : Irish Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 1908928271
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Blasphemers and Blackguards written by David Ryan and published by Irish Academic Press. This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland

Author : Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland written by Society of Antiquaries of Scotland and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of members.

The Comic Irishman

Author : Maureen Waters
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438423365
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book The Comic Irishman written by Maureen Waters and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1984-06-30 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Comic Irishman makes heretofore unacknowledged distinctions among different types of comic Irishmen and convincingly casts away the stereotyped version of the stage Irishman. It shows how the Irish comic character—whether a blundering fool or a lazy, fun-loving fellow—evolved into a glib and witty rogue. The book is a critical study of modern Irish fiction and drama. The first part provides an analysis of the various Irish comic figures which were popular in the nineteenth century. These are discussed within a social and historic framework because they were to a large extent shaped by the erosion of Gaelic culture under the impact of English government. In the process of shifting from one cultural nexus to another, the Irishman came to be regarded as highly inferior to his English counterpart, yet amusing because of his difficulty with the English language and his rebellious, unpredictable behavior. The second part of the book discusses the writings of such twentieth-century authors as James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Sean O'Casey, and Flann O'Brien, who concentrated on the analysis of the stage Irishman. Some brilliantly exploited the comic tradition, while other used satire to explode what they perceived as a debasing myth.

Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know

Author : Karl Shaw
Publisher : Robinson
ISBN 13 : 1472136705
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know written by Karl Shaw and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2017-04-13 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The alarming history of the British, and European, aristocracy - from Argyll to Wellington and from Byron to Tolstoy, stories of madness, murder, misery, greed and profligacy. From Regency playhouses, to which young noblemen would go simply in order to insult someone to provoke a duel that might further their reputation, to the fashionable gambling clubs or 'hells' which were springing up around St James's in the mid-eighteenth century, the often bizarre doings of aristocrats. An eighteenth-century English gentleman was required to have what was known as 'bottom', a shipping metaphor that referred to stability. Taking part in a duel was a bold statement that you had bottom. William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne certainly had bottom, if not a complete set of gonads following his duel with Colonel Fullarton, MP for Plympton. Both men missed with their first shots, but the colonel fired again and shot off Shelborne's right testicle. Despite being hit, Shelborne deliberately discharged his second shot in the air. When asked how he was, the injured Earl coolly observed his wound and said, 'I don't think Lady Shelborne will be the worse for it.' The cast of characters includes imperious, hard-drinking and highly volatile Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe, who is remembered today as much for his brilliant scientific career as his talent for getting involved in bizarre mishaps, such as his death as a result of his burst bladder; the Marquess of Queensberry, a side-whiskered psychopath, who, on a luxury steamboat in Brazil, in a row with a fellow passenger over the difference between emus and ostriches, and knocked him out cold; and Thomas, 2nd Baron Lyttelton, a Georgian rake straight out of central casting, who ran up enormous gambling debts, fought duels, frequented brothels and succumbed to drug and alcohol addiction. Often, such rakes would be swiftly packed off on a Grand Tour in the hope that travel would bring about maturity. It seldom did.

Aramco World

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Aramco World written by and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: