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Book Synopsis Foster’s Historical Irish Oddities by : Allen Foster
Download or read book Foster’s Historical Irish Oddities written by Allen Foster and published by Gill & Macmillan Ltd. This book was released on 2015-10-16 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strange, zany and at times downright baffling, Foster’s Historical Irish Oddities is a quirky compendium of true stories from all over Ireland. It is essential reading for anyone who loves to entertain friends and family with a good yarn or who needs further proof that Ireland is indeed a country with a unique cast of characters. From the Lismore man who rode to Fermoy in a tub pulled by a pig, a badger, two cats, a goose and a hedgehog to the tornado that ripped through Limerick in 1851, this is the perfect book for anyone with an interest in Irish history and a taste for the absurd. Foster’s stories may not be found in the history books but they certainly provide an entertaining and addictive read!
Book Synopsis Historical Irish Oddities by : Allen Foster
Download or read book Historical Irish Oddities written by Allen Foster and published by Gateway Books. This book was released on 2019-03 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compendium of stories from all over the country illustrates how bizarre and wonderful events and people have entertained us throughout history. From the Lismore man who rode to Fermoy in a tub pulled by a pig, a badger, two cats, a goose and a hedgehog, to the fortune discovered in a Belfast piano once owned by destitute sisters, and the Cashel man who insisted on being evicted while lying in his coffin, this is the perfect gift book for anyone with an interest in Irish history and a taste for the absurd.
Book Synopsis Foster's Irish Oddities by : Allen Foster
Download or read book Foster's Irish Oddities written by Allen Foster and published by New Island Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This addictive, fascinating and humorous little book is an indispensable collection of Irish trivia, history, uncommon knowledge and vital irrelevances. It is presented in a handsome volume, with line drawings, making it the ideal gift for St Patrick's Day.
Book Synopsis Foster's Even Odder Irish Oddities by : Allen Foster
Download or read book Foster's Even Odder Irish Oddities written by Allen Foster and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis How the Irish Saved Civilization by : Thomas Cahill
Download or read book How the Irish Saved Civilization written by Thomas Cahill and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2010-04-28 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A book in the best tradition of popular history—the untold story of Ireland's role in maintaining Western culture while the Dark Ages settled on Europe. • The perfect St. Patrick's Day gift! Every year millions of Americans celebrate St. Patrick's Day, but they may not be aware of how great an influence St. Patrick was on the subsequent history of civilization. Not only did he bring Christianity to Ireland, he instilled a sense of literacy and learning that would create the conditions that allowed Ireland to become "the isle of saints and scholars"—and thus preserve Western culture while Europe was being overrun by barbarians. In this entertaining and compelling narrative, Thomas Cahill tells the story of how Europe evolved from the classical age of Rome to the medieval era. Without Ireland, the transition could not have taken place. Not only did Irish monks and scribes maintain the very record of Western civilization -- copying manuscripts of Greek and Latin writers, both pagan and Christian, while libraries and learning on the continent were forever lost—they brought their uniquely Irish world-view to the task. As Cahill delightfully illustrates, so much of the liveliness we associate with medieval culture has its roots in Ireland. When the seeds of culture were replanted on the European continent, it was from Ireland that they were germinated. In the tradition of Barbara Tuchman's A Distant Mirror, How The Irish Saved Civilization reconstructs an era that few know about but which is central to understanding our past and our cultural heritage. But it conveys its knowledge with a winking wit that aptly captures the sensibility of the unsung Irish who relaunched civilization.
Book Synopsis Foster's English Oddities by : Allen Foster
Download or read book Foster's English Oddities written by Allen Foster and published by Robert Hale. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Foster's English oddities is a wonderful collection of England's quirkiest characters, most extraordinary facts and strangest coincidences. Packed with little-known tales that are sure to fascinate and entertain. Discover the lucky, unclucky, spooky, strange, stupid, weird, wonderful and funny events that make up Allen Foster's entertaining contribution to the social history of this country. See England in a different light; sit back and enjoy!" --Inside jacket.
Book Synopsis Foster's Welsh Oddities by : Allen Foster
Download or read book Foster's Welsh Oddities written by Allen Foster and published by . This book was released on 2015-09-30 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ideal for trivia lovers and those interested in the more esoteric aspects of life in Wales, Foster’s Welsh Oddities is a wonderful collection of Wales’ quirkiest characters, most extraordinary facts and strangest coincidences. Discover the lucky, unlucky, strange, silly, downright weird, wonderful and funny events that make up Allen Foster’s entertaining contribution to the social history of Wales.Find out about such curiosities as:• the Welsh beach that whistles• the ferocious bull that once stopped a train• one of the strangest wills ever admitted to probate• the pioneer Welsh explorer who laid the foundations for the first overland expedition of America • how a young Welshwoman single-handedly captured a dozen French soldiers and helped to foil an invasion.
Book Synopsis Foster's Book of Irish Murder by : Allen Foster
Download or read book Foster's Book of Irish Murder written by Allen Foster and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-31 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now available in paperback, Allen Foster returns with the gruesome tales of some of Ireland's most infamous and lesser-known murders in history - a murder miscellany, you might say.
Book Synopsis Ireland's Most Wanted™ by : Brian Thomsen
Download or read book Ireland's Most Wanted™ written by Brian Thomsen and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2005-03-31 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Irish is more than a nationality—it’s a state of being. What other cultural background allows you to demand a kiss, celebrate the wearing of a color, toast the wee folk, and take pride in one’s readiness to fight? What other land is celebrated by parades and parties and allows even the non-blessed to declare themselves countrymen for one day? From sports to poetry, and from rock ‘n’ roll to Wilde and Shaw, Ireland’s Most Wanted™: The Top 10 Book of Celtic Pride, Fantastic Folklore, and Oddities of the Emerald Isle gives you loads of delightful tidbits and trivia from the homeland of saints, sinners, and the greatest beverage ever brewed, Guinness. Brian M. Thomsen provides an irreverent but fact-filled look at Ireland and the Irish, leaving no stone—Blarney or otherwise—unturned in bringing her gifts to you. With a bushel full of top-ten lists on all things Irish, Thomsen takes you on a journey through the greenest of lands and provides tales and anecdotes on everything from Irish pubs, Irish castles, leprechauns and banshees, heroes and kings, and the influence of the Irish on culture. Whatever their nationality, everyone has a wee bit of the Irish in them. Ireland’s Most Wanted™ is a true pot of gold!
Book Synopsis Early Medieval Ireland, 400-1200 by : Daibhi O Croinin
Download or read book Early Medieval Ireland, 400-1200 written by Daibhi O Croinin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This impressive survey covers the early history of Ireland from the coming of Christianity to the Norman settlement (400 - 1200 AD). Within a broad political framework it explores the nature of Irish society, the spiritual and secular roles of the Church and the extraordinary flowering of Irish culture in the period. Other major themes are Ireland's relations with Britain and continental Europe, and Vikings and their influence, the beginnings of Irish feudalism, and the impact of the Viking and Norman invaders. Splendid in sweep and lively in detail, it launches the newLongman History of Ireland in fine style.
Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish History by : Alvin Jackson
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish History written by Alvin Jackson and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-03-27 with total page 979 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of Irish history, once riven and constricted, has recently enjoyed a resurgence, with new practitioners, new approaches, and new methods of investigation. The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish History represents the diversity of this emerging talent and achievement by bringing together 36 leading scholars of modern Ireland and embracing 400 years of Irish history, uniting early and late modernists as well as contemporary historians. The Handbook offers a set of scholarly perspectives drawn from numerous disciplines, including history, political science, literature, geography, and the Irish language. It looks at the Irish at home as well as in their migrant and diasporic communities. The Handbook combines sets of wide thematic and interpretative essays, with more detailed investigations of particular periods. Each of the contributors offers a summation of the state of scholarship within their subject area, linking their own research insights with assessments of future directions within the discipline. In its breadth and depth and diversity, The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish History offers an authoritative and vibrant portrayal of the history of modern Ireland.
Book Synopsis Jessie of Boulogne, Or, The History of a Few Minutes by : Clotworthy Gillmor
Download or read book Jessie of Boulogne, Or, The History of a Few Minutes written by Clotworthy Gillmor and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Tales from Irish History ... With a Map by : Alice BIRKHEAD
Download or read book Tales from Irish History ... With a Map written by Alice BIRKHEAD and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Irish Penny Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Thirty-Two Words for Field by : Manchán Magan
Download or read book Thirty-Two Words for Field written by Manchán Magan and published by Bonnier Books UK. This book was released on 2024-02-29 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rediscover the lost words of an ancient land in this new and updated edition of an international bestseller. Most people associate Britain and Ireland with the English language, a vast, sprawling linguistic tree with roots in Latin, French, and German, and branches spanning the world, from Australia and India to North America. But the inhabitants of these islands originally spoke another tongue. Look closely enough and English contains traces of the Celtic soil from which it sprung, found in words like bog, loch, cairn and crag. Today, this heritage can be found nowhere more powerfully than in modern-day Gaelic. In Thirty-Two Words for Field Manchán Magan explores the enchantment, sublime beauty and sheer oddness of a 3000-year-old lexicon. Imbuing the natural world with meaning and magic, it evokes a time-honoured way of life, from its 32 separate words for a field, to terms like loisideach (a place with a lot of kneading troughs), bróis (whiskey for a horseman at a wedding), and iarmhaireacht (the loneliness you feel when you are the only person awake at cockcrow). Told through stories collected from Magan's own life and travels, Thirty-Two Words for Field is an enthralling celebration of Irish words, and a testament to the indelible relationship between landscape, culture and language.
Download or read book The Irish Penny Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Old Irish Baronet by : Henrietta Rouvière Mosse
Download or read book The Old Irish Baronet written by Henrietta Rouvière Mosse and published by . This book was released on 1808 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
