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El Proyecto Macnamara

Author : John Fox
Publisher : Merrion Press
ISBN 13 : 190892876X
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book El Proyecto Macnamara written by John Fox and published by Merrion Press. This book was released on 2014-06-18 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of Eugene Macnamara, a maverick young priest from Ennis, County Clare who sought to establish a colony for Irish families in the 1840s in Alta California, Mexico s far north-western territory. Had the 10,000 ready volunteers from Limerick, Clare and Cork of whom he boasted, actually arrived, a New Ennis , New Clare or New Ireland could have been born. His scheme failed when the US seized California in 1846. Macnamara life spanned half the globe and was dramatic: expulsion from a Paris seminary, a dash to Rome from Guiana to expose a convulsing mission, a year in revolutionary Mexico, two months in threatened California (backed by the Royal Navy) and asylum in Mexico City during the Mexican War, 1846-8. He followed it all with a Macnamara Scheme II in Chile. His arrival in Mexico, 1844, was at a time of tension between North America s landlords, Mexico, the US and Britain. His 1846 licence to settle 20,000 square miles with 15,000 settlers, was formalised by Mexico in 1847 and even qualified for a US hearing in 1852, but it was not appealed. British diplomats, merchants and bondholders supported him. When US President Polk learned of El Proyecto Macnamara he acted immediately to stop any British colonising in North America. In Washington, Macnamara personified at the highest levels a political and commercial conspiracy between Britain and Mexico against the US. This biography is the compelling story of this international Irishman and his lingering aftermath.

Macnamara's Irish Colony and the United States Taking of California in 1846

Author : John Fox
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 9780786406876
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book Macnamara's Irish Colony and the United States Taking of California in 1846 written by John Fox and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2000 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Images of Irish immigration often bring to mind Ellis Island and crowded Eastern ports. If Eugene Macnamara's planned Irish Colony in California had succeeded, however, we might have a very different view of the Irish in America. In 1844, Eugene Macnamara, an Irish priest with a shadowy history, began promoting his plan to create an Irish colony in California. With the first of the Potato Famines a year later, many Irish farmers had to seek a new life, and California seemed to be the answer. In both Washington and Mexico, Macnamara and his plan were viewed as suspicious, even dangerous, yet once the U.S. war with Mexico gained California for the United States, the priest and his plan were largely forgotten. Both period documents and new discoveries are used to flesh out the story of the California colonization project and the mysterious figure behind it. With illustrations, maps, and index, this book is a valuable resource for understanding American, Mexican, and Irish history--and a fascinating glimpse of the ways in which the past might have been different.

The Panama Railroad

Author : Peter Pyne
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253052084
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book The Panama Railroad written by Peter Pyne and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1848, a group of ambitious American entrepreneurs decided to embark upon a remarkable engineering feat—they would build a railroad across the Isthmus of Panama to connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. The creation of the Panama Railroad ranks as one the boldest capitalist ventures in the 19th century, and would require battling climate, disease, and geography before it was completed. On a human level, it would transform the destiny of thousands of lives in America, Panama, the West Indies, and Asia, as well as in Ireland. The Panama Railroad provides the first comprehensive account of the railroad's construction, going well beyond the known stories of the titans of industry involved with its construction, such as William Aspinwall, George Law, and Cornelius Vanderbilt. It seeks to correct false claims and address numerous gaps in past histories, and in particular showcases the stories of the ordinary Irish workers willing to travel halfway around the globe to pursue an uncertain future and a perilous undertaking in the hopes of escaping the devastating aftermath of the Great Famine of 1845–49.

1847

Author : Turtle Bunbury
Publisher : Gill & Macmillan Ltd
ISBN 13 : 0717168433
Total Pages : 535 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book 1847 written by Turtle Bunbury and published by Gill & Macmillan Ltd. This book was released on 2016-09-09 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Capture the spirit of an industrial, social and cultural revolution through this invigorating collection of historical portraits from the dawn of the industrialised world!Though it feels like an era marooned almost irretrievably in the distant past, the 1840s &ndash a decade of blistering social and cultural change – is only two lifetimes removed from the present day. There are, in other words, people alive today who knew and associated with people for whom the Gold Rush and the Great Famine were living memories.Having grown up in an Irish country house built that year, 1847 has long proven the source of inspiration and fascination for historian Turtle Bunbury. And in a bid to once more grasp the spirit of the age, he has over the years assembled an archive of the most remarkable stories from those twelve momentous months.Bristling with all manner of human life and endeavour, from American pioneers and German entrepreneurs to circus charlatans and down-and-out songwriters, 1847 is a collection of his most remarkable discoveries to date and a stirring portrait of a chaotic world surging towards the modern. By turns poignant, outlandish, curious and provocative, this is history at its most invigorating – as panorama, as epic.Praise for The Glorious Madness:'An absolutely brilliant book.'Patrick Geoghegan, Associate Professor in History at Trinity College, Dublin'Turtle Bunbury's open-handed, clear-sighted and finely written book comes fresh and, I might almost say, redeemed out of the moil and storm of controversy that surrounded the topic of the war, in a thousand different guises in the decades since its end. Turtle holds out his hand in the present, seeking the lost hands of the past, in darkness, in darkness, but also suddenly in the clear light of kindness – in the upshot acknowledging their imperilled existence with a brilliant flourish, a veritable banner, of wonderful stories.'Sebastian Barry, author of The Secret Scripture'Turtle continues the wonderful listening and yarn-spinning he has honed in the Vanishing Ireland series, applying it to veterans of the First World War. The stories he recreates are poignant, whimsical and bleakly funny, bringing back into the light the lives of people who found themselves on the wrong side of history after the struggle for Irish independence. This is my kind of micro-history.'John Grenham, The Irish TimesPraise for Vanishing Ireland:'A perfect symbiosis between text and images – both similarity affectionate, respectful, humorous, slightly melancholic but never sentimental or nostalgic. This is invaluable social history.'Cara Magazine'This is a beautiful and remarkably simple book that will melt the hardest of hearts. Bunbury has a light writing style that lets his interviewees, elderly folk from around the country, tell their stories without interference. It's neither patronising nor overly romantic about the past; just narrating moving tales – The portraits by Fennell are striking, warm and dignified, with a feeling of being invited into people's lives.'The Sunday Times

The King's Smuggler

Author : John Fox
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752469037
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)

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Download or read book The King's Smuggler written by John Fox and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-08-26 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jane Whorwood (1612 - 1684) was one of Charles I's closest confidantes. The daughter of Scots courtiers at Whitehall and the wife of an Oxfordshire squire, when the court moved to Oxford in 1642, at the start of the Civil War, she helped the Royalist cause by spying for the king and smuggling at least three-quarters of a ton of gold to help pay for his army. When Charles was held captive by the Parliamentarians, from 1646 to 1649, she organised money, correspondence, several escape attempts, astrological advice and a ship to carry him to Holland. The King and she also had a wartime 'brief encounter'. After Charles's execution in 1649, Jane's marriage collapsed in one of the most public and acrimonious separation cases of the seventeenth century. Using known and new evidence, John Fox provides the first biography of this extraordinary woman, a forgotten key player in the English Civil War.

Proyecto Cooperativo de Investigacion Sobre Tegnologia Agropecuaria en America Latina "protaal" Technological Change and Peasant in Latin America

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Publisher : IICA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Proyecto Cooperativo de Investigacion Sobre Tegnologia Agropecuaria en America Latina "protaal" Technological Change and Peasant in Latin America written by and published by IICA. This book was released on with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Documents Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States with Other Countries During the Years from 1809 to 1898

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1164 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Documents Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States with Other Countries During the Years from 1809 to 1898 written by and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 1164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collected set of congressional documents of the 11th to the 55th Congress, messages of the Presidents of the United States, and correspondence of the State Dept. Many of these pamphlets have been catalogued separately under their respective headings.

Congress, Formal Theories and Empirical Theories

Author : José M. Sagüillo
Publisher : Univ Santiago de Compostela
ISBN 13 : 9788481219609
Total Pages : 660 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (196 download)

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Download or read book Congress, Formal Theories and Empirical Theories written by José M. Sagüillo and published by Univ Santiago de Compostela. This book was released on 2001 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Trends in Bilingual Acquisition

Author : Jasone Cenoz
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9789027234711
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (347 download)

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Download or read book Trends in Bilingual Acquisition written by Jasone Cenoz and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The chapters in this volume provide the first comprehensive overview of trends in research on early phonological, lexical, syntactic and pragmatic development in children acquiring two (or more) languages simultaneously. Ongoing as well as emerging issues are examined and discussed by leading researchers in the field. Collectively, these studies extend our knowledge of bilingual acquisition and broaden our understanding of the child's ability to acquire and use language. This volume is of interest to researchers working on language acquisition by monolingual and bilingual children, graduate students of psychology, linguistics and communication sciences, and researchers and professionals concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of bilingual children with language impairment.

A Natural Year

Author : Michael Fewer
Publisher : Merrion Press
ISBN 13 : 178537320X
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book A Natural Year written by Michael Fewer and published by Merrion Press. This book was released on 2020-03-02 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Natural Year, critically acclaimed travel writer Michael Fewer celebrates the everyday wonder of Irish nature in these beautifully written diaries, observed from his homes in south Dublin and rural Waterford, in which he delights at the startling beauty and extraordinary complexity of the natural world through the tranquil rhythms of the passing seasons. Fewer’s infectious passion for his subject simply inspires our own observation, and suggests how careful study of the natural world around us can be a sure antidote to the stresses of modern life. At a time when it’s essential for us to understand the crisis that faces our wildlife and environment, we need to know more about the natural world around us, the treasures that are being needlessly lost, and the threat to our very way of life. A Natural Year will open eyes and hearts to a greater understanding of the world around us, and its innate beauty and fragility.

The Preacher and the Prelate

Author : Patricia Byrne
Publisher : Merrion Press
ISBN 13 : 1785371703
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book The Preacher and the Prelate written by Patricia Byrne and published by Merrion Press. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the extraordinary story of an audacious fight for souls on famine ravaged Achill Island in the nineteenth century. Religious ferment swept Ireland in the early 1800s and evangelical Protestant clergyman Edward Nangle set out to lift the destitute people of Achill out of degradation and idolatry through his Achill Mission Colony. The fury of the island elements, the devastation of famine, and Nangle’s own volatile temperament all threatened the project’s survival. In the years of the Great Famine the ugly charge of ‘souperism’, offering food and material benefits in return for religious conversion, tainted the Achill Mission’s work. John MacHale, powerful Archbishop of Tuam, spearheaded the Catholic Church’s fightback against Nangle’s Protestant colony, with the two clergymen unleashing fierce passions while spewing vitriol and polemic from pen and pulpit. Did Edward Nangle and the Achill Mission Colony save hundreds from certain death, or did they shamefully exploit a vulnerable people for religious conversion? This dramatic tale of the Achill Mission Colony exposes the fault-lines of religion, society and politics in nineteenth century Ireland, and continues to excite controversy and division to this day.

Irish Voices from the Great War

Author : Myles Dungan
Publisher : Merrion Press
ISBN 13 : 1908928832
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Irish Voices from the Great War written by Myles Dungan and published by Merrion Press. This book was released on 2014-07-07 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pioneering study, first published in 1995, retains its rank as one of the most powerful histories ever written about Irish involvement in World War 1. This year, the centenary of the war, sees its timely re-publication as the Irishmen who fought in that war re-enter the national memory after decades of indifference and hostility. The gradual softening of attitudes over the last twenty years amid great historic change on the island of Ireland, is due in no small part to the efforts of historians, such as Myles Dungan, to tell thousands of forgotten stories. Drawing on the diaries, letters, literary works and oral accounts of soldiers, Myles Dungan tells some of the personal stories of what Irishmen, unionist and nationalist, went through during the Great War and how many of them drew closer together during that horror than at any time since. This volume deals with a selection of the most important battles and campaigns in which the three Irish Divisions participated.

Foreign Otherness in Japanese Media

Author : Betsy Forero Montoya
Publisher : Universidad de los Andes
ISBN 13 : 9587980565
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (879 download)

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Download or read book Foreign Otherness in Japanese Media written by Betsy Forero Montoya and published by Universidad de los Andes. This book was released on 2021-07-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Betsy Forero-Montoya is an Associate Professor in the School of Arts and Humanities at Universidad de los Andes (Colombia). She received a PhD in Japa-nese Studies from Tsukuba University and a Master's of Arts from Sophia University. She has been teach-ing and conducting research on Japan for almost two decades. She has authored articles and book chap-ters on media portrayal of gender and ethnicity, and on popular culture.

McNamara's Folly

Author : Hamilton Gregory
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781495805486
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book McNamara's Folly written by Hamilton Gregory and published by . This book was released on 2015-05-21 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Marketing in Peru

Author : Laurie J. MacNamara
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book Marketing in Peru written by Laurie J. MacNamara and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

From Whence I Came

Author : Brian Murphy
Publisher : Merrion Press
ISBN 13 : 1788551435
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (885 download)

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Download or read book From Whence I Came written by Brian Murphy and published by Merrion Press. This book was released on 2021-03-08 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elected in 1960 as the 35th President of the USA, John Fitzgerald Kennedy remains to this day the office’s youngest incumbent and he was its first Roman Catholic. His term in office was short, but arguably no US President has inspired more people around the globe than JFK. Even today, for generations born decades after his death, President Kennedy’s legacy has an enduring appeal. This insightful book contains specially commissioned pieces by a range of respected academic and political figures, including former Obama speechwriter, Cody Kennan, the President of the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights organisation, Kerry Kennedy, and former senior adviser to Bernie Sanders, Tad Devine. With the presidency of Joe Biden seeing a renewed focus on broader themes within Irish, American and global politics, From Whence I Came is a fascinating and timely collection that offers a fresh perspective on the Kennedy legacy and the politics of Ireland and the United States.

The Treaty

Author : Liam Weeks
Publisher : Merrion Press
ISBN 13 : 1788550439
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (885 download)

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Download or read book The Treaty written by Liam Weeks and published by Merrion Press. This book was released on 2018-09-17 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What exactly did the split over the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921 actually mean? We know it both established the independent Irish state and that Ireland would not be a fully sovereign republic and provided for the partition of Northern Ireland. The Treaty was ratified 64 votes to 57 by the Sinn Fein members of the Revolutionary Dail Eireann, splitting Sinn Fein irrevocably and leading to the Irish Civil War, a rupture that still defines the Irish political landscape a century on. Drawing together the work of a diverse range of scholars, who each re-examine this critical period in Irish political history from a variety of perspectives, The Anglo-Irish Treaty Debates addresses this vexed historical and political question for a new generation of readers in the ongoing Decade of Commemorations, to determine what caused the split and its consequences that are still felt today.