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Download or read book John MacBride written by Donal Fallon and published by The O'Brien Press. This book was released on 2015-10-12 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Major John MacBride, who was Born in Westport, County Mayo in 1868, was a household name in Ireland when many of the leaders of the Easter Rising were still relatively unknown figures. As part of the 'Irish Brigade', a band of nationalists fighting against the British in the Second Boer War, MacBride's name featured in stories in the Freeman's Journal and Arthur Griffith's United Irishman. The Major went on to travel across the United States, lecturing audiences on the blow struck against the British Empire in South Africa. His marriage to Maud Gonne, described as 'Ireland's Joan of Arc', led to further notoriety. Their subsequent bitter separation involved some of the most senior figures in Irish nationalism. MacBride was dismissed by William Butler Yeats as a 'drunken, vainglorious lout; Donal Fallon attempts to unravel the complexities of the man and his life and what led him to fight in Jacob's factory in 1916. John MacBride was executed in Kilmainham Gaol on 5 May 1916, two days before his forty-eighth birthday.
Download or read book MacBride's Wars written by Dermod Judge and published by Book Guild Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-28 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What Major John MacBride learns when leading the Irish Brigade in the Second Anglo-Boer War against the British Empire isn’t much help when fighting his estranged wife in the French courts.
Book Synopsis Seán MacBride, A Life by : Elizabeth Keane
Download or read book Seán MacBride, A Life written by Elizabeth Keane and published by Gill & Macmillan Ltd. This book was released on 2007-10-16 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exceptional man, an extraordinary career – a life of Seán MacBride, Ireland's most distinguished statesman Sean MacBride (1904–1988) was at different times the Chief of Staff of the IRA, a top criminal lawyer, leader of Clann na Poblachta, Irish Foreign Minister, UN Commissioner, and a founding member of Amnesty International. He is the only person to have won both the Nobel Peace Prize (1974) and the Lenin Peace Prize (1977). Seán MacBride, A Life, by accomplished historian Elizabeth Keane, is the first complete biography of this multifaceted, complex and internationally renowned Irish politician. From revolutionary terrorist to conservative constitutional politician to liberal elder statesman and international humanitarian, Seán MacBride uncovers the political and personal story of one of twentieth-century Ireland's most controversial figures. Seán MacBride begins with MacBride's birth in Paris in 1904. With icons of the nationalist movement in Ireland for parents, MacBride's future as a politician was fated: his father John MacBride was a Boer War hero executed for his role in the Easter Rising of 1916; his mother Maud Gonne was an outspoken revolutionary and the lost love and muse of Ireland's most famous poet W.B. Yeats. Seán MacBride then looks at MacBride's membership of the IRA, which he joined as teenager. He fought in both the Irish War of Independence and the Irish Civil War. Seán MacBride charts his rapid rise through the ranks, looking at how he became the Director of Intelligence and later Chief of Staff of the IRA before relinquishing his position and becoming a top criminal barrister. MacBride entered Dáil Éireann for the first time in 1947 as the leader of Clann na Poblachta, and formed the first coalition government in Irish history in 1948. Appointed Minister for External Affairs (Foreign Minister), Seán MacBride considers MacBride's tenure in office, which included overseeing the acceptance of the European Convention on Human Rights, the rejection of NATO and Ireland's exit from the Commonwealth. His refusal to support fellow Clann na Poblachta TD Noël Browne's Mother-and-Child Scheme in the face of the opposition of the Catholic bishops led to the collapse of the coalition. MacBride lost his seat in the 1957 election, retired officially from Irish party politics and entered the third phase of his life: international statesman and human rights activist. Seán MacBride looks at the pivotal role MacBride played in European and international politics and human rights over the course of his later years, including founding Amnesty International, opposing apartheid in South Africa and agitating against nuclear armament. Few Irish politicians have had such an impact domestically and internationally. From MacBride's violent IRA beginnings to his later advocacy of peace in politics, Seán MacBride, A Life captures the twists and turns of a fascinating career. A figure of national and international importance, one of the most distinguished Irish people of the twentieth century, he has found a biographer of authority and assurance in Elizabeth Keane, whose survey of his life and times is astute, insightful and convincing. Praise for Elizabeth Keane: 'A singular voice in Irish history' The Sunday Business Post Seán MacBride, A Life: Table of Contents Preface - Man of Destiny - A Sort of Homecoming - From Chief-of-Staff to Chief Counsel - Fighting Your Battles - The Harp Without the Crown - Rattling the Sabre - Coming out of the Cave - Catholic First, Irishman Second - A Statesman of International Status - Never Lost His Fenian FateConclusion
Book Synopsis The Love Story of Yeats and Maud Gonne by : Margery Brady
Download or read book The Love Story of Yeats and Maud Gonne written by Margery Brady and published by Mercier Press Ltd. This book was released on 1990 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A ... story of the great love of W. B. Yeats for Maud Gonne, the woman he immortalized in his poems. Set in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this romantic tale unfolds against a backdrop of political unrest and tenant agitation in Ireland. The poet W. B. Yeats was a central figure in the Irish literary revival while Maud Gonne, a political activist, was passionately involved in the struggle for Irish independence"--From back cover.
Book Synopsis Forgotten Protest by : Donal P. McCracken
Download or read book Forgotten Protest written by Donal P. McCracken and published by Ulster Historical Foundation. This book was released on 2003 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: McCracken (history and humanities, U. of Durban-Westville, South Africa) illuminates the contact between Ireland and South Africa in the age of high imperialism, and the interest aroused in Ireland by developments in South Africa and their effects on Irish politics of the time. The first edition was
Book Synopsis Journals of the House of Commons by : Great Britain House of Commons
Download or read book Journals of the House of Commons written by Great Britain House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1803 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis H-R by : British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings
Download or read book H-R written by British Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Naval Chronology by : Isaac Schomberg
Download or read book Naval Chronology written by Isaac Schomberg and published by . This book was released on 1802 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Love of Strangers by : Nile Green
Download or read book The Love of Strangers written by Nile Green and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How a group of Iranian students sought love and learning in Jane Austen's London In July 1815, six Iranian students arrived in London under the escort of their chaperone, Captain Joseph D'Arcy. Their mission was to master the modern sciences behind the rapid rise of Europe. Over the next four years, they lived both the low life and high life of Regency London, from being down and out after their abandonment by D’Arcy to charming their way into society and landing on the gossip pages. The Love of Strangers tells the story of their search for love and learning in Jane Austen’s England. Drawing on the Persian diary of the student Mirza Salih and the letters of his companions, Nile Green vividly describes how these adaptable Muslim migrants learned to enjoy the opera and take the waters at Bath. But there was more than frivolity to their student years in London. Burdened with acquiring the technology to defend Iran against Russia, they talked their way into the observatories, hospitals, and steam-powered factories that placed England at the forefront of the scientific revolution. All the while, Salih dreamed of becoming the first Muslim to study at Oxford. The Love of Strangers chronicles the frustration and fellowship of six young men abroad to open a unique window onto the transformative encounter between an Evangelical England and an Islamic Iran at the dawn of the modern age. This is that rarest of books about the Middle East and the West: a story of friendships.
Download or read book Conor written by Donald H. Akenson and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in 1917 into an Ireland torn by nationalist passions, O'Brien was trained as a diplomat and rose to international prominence during the Belgian Congo crisis. As special representative for UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold, O'Brien was caught in the middle of big power politics. After resigning in a furor, he wrote To Katanga and Back (1962), a classic in modern African history and still the only book to reveal how the UN works behind its marble facade. O'Brien then became Vice Chancellor of the University of Ghana and waged a battle for academic freedom against one of the most amiable of tyrants, Kwame Nkrumah.
Book Synopsis Naval Chronology by : Isaac Schomberg
Download or read book Naval Chronology written by Isaac Schomberg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-29 with total page 769 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1802, this classic five-volume reference work traces the history of the Royal Navy from its origins.
Book Synopsis Journals of the House of Commons by : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Download or read book Journals of the House of Commons written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1803 with total page 1140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Select Works of Edgar Allan Poe by : Edgar Allan Poe
Download or read book Select Works of Edgar Allan Poe written by Edgar Allan Poe and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 846 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis MacBride's Brigade by : Donal P. McCracken
Download or read book MacBride's Brigade written by Donal P. McCracken and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of 500 Irish-American men and Irish men who fought the British in the Anglo-Boer war.
Download or read book The Gentleman's Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1786 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review by :
Download or read book Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1786 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis 16 Dead Men: The Easter Rising Executions by : Anne-Marie Ryan
Download or read book 16 Dead Men: The Easter Rising Executions written by Anne-Marie Ryan and published by Mercier Press Ltd. This book was released on 2014-09-05 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixteen men were executed in the aftermath of the Easter Rising in Ireland, 1916: fifteen were shot and one was hanged. Their deaths changed the course of Irish history. But who were these leaders who set in motion events that would lead to the creation of an independent Ireland? The executed leaders of the Easter Rising were a diverse group. This book contains fascinating accounts of the life stories of these men and recounts the events that brought each of them to rebellion in April 1916.
