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Author : Máire MacNeill
Publisher : Steve Parish
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Máire Rua written by Máire MacNeill and published by Steve Parish. This book was released on 1990 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography of Maire Rua, a seventeenth-century woman, whose life is steeped in folklore and myth.
Author : Seamus Deane
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814799079
Total Pages : 1756 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (99 download)
Download or read book The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing written by Seamus Deane and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 1756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Marsh
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781402738241
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (382 download)
Download or read book The Legends & Lands of Ireland written by Richard Marsh and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2006-02-28 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From sinister spells to healing wells, this illustrated collection of 43 traditional Irish yarns brings forth the magic of a proud people and their lyrical landscapes. While you may know of the Blarney Stone or St. Patrick, you've probably never heard the saga of Lia Lfail, the ancient stone said to confirm a king's legitimacy by shrieking under the weight of his footsteps, or the legend of Dublin's haunted Hell Fire Club, where the devil himself was once believed to have paid a visit. Saturated with the colors of the Emerald Isle, the photos that grace these pages will transport you to a world of heroic deeds, violent deaths, and otherworldly adventures. Through these fanciful tales that have survived over the centuries, you'll glean fascinating facts on Irish genealogy, etymology and history. So suspend disbelief and step into a world steeped in storytelling and rich with lore.
Author : Larry J. Hoe?ing
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595848028
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (958 download)
Download or read book Last of the True Irish written by Larry J. Hoe?ing and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-07-12 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ms. Ahearne, You are, no doubt, surprised at receiving this unexpected message. So starts an intriguing letter promising great changes for Callie Ahearne. Texas wasn't big enough. She's out of cash, out of work, and out on her own, but she's big on adventure and flies to Ireland on little more than a promise and a prayer to meet her Irish benefactor, who believes she is the last of her kind, descended of an ancient Irish race. She thinks he's crazy, but is willing to listen as long as he is footing the bills. When his latest ruse to unlock her secrets goes bad, a helicopter accident sends Callie and two others crashing into Ancient Ireland, where she must bargain with a powerful woman who holds the key to their safe return. Now, Callie finds herself in the midst of a struggle for Ireland's destiny, joining an Irish clan fighting the invading Oliver Cromwell, and falling for the very man whose father she must kill to fulfill her end of the bargain.
Author : Marian Broderick
Publisher : The O'Brien Press
ISBN 13 : 1847174612
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (471 download)
Download or read book Wild Irish Women written by Marian Broderick and published by The O'Brien Press. This book was released on 2012-11-15 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From patriots to pirates, warriors to writers, and mistresses to male impersonators, this book looks at the unorthodox lives of inspiring Irish women. In times when women were expected to marry and have children, they travelled the world and sought out adventures; in times when women were expected to be seen and not heard, they spoke out in loud voices against oppression; in times when women were expected to have no interest in politics, literature, art, or the world outside the home, they used every creative means available to give expression to their thoughts, ideas and beliefs. In a series of succinct and often amusing biographies, Marian Broderick tells the life stories of these exceptional Irish women.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Béaloideas written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nicholas Canny
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019253663X
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)
Download or read book Imagining Ireland's Pasts written by Nicholas Canny and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagining Ireland's Pasts describes how various authors addressed the history of early modern Ireland over four centuries and explains why they could not settle on an agreed narrative. It shows how conflicting interpretations broke frequently along denominational lines, but that authors were also influenced by ethnic, cultural, and political considerations, and by whether they were resident in Ireland or living in exile. Imagining Ireland's Past: Early Modern Ireland through the Centuries details how authors extolled the merits of their progenitors, offered hope and guidance to the particular audience they addressed, and disputed opposing narratives. The author shows how competing scholars, whether contributing to vernacular histories or empirical studies, became transfixed by the traumatic events of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries as they sought to explain either how stability had finally been achieved, or how the descendants of those who had been wronged might secure redress.
Author : Charles Mollan
Publisher : Charles Mollan
ISBN 13 : 0860270556
Total Pages : 1887 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (62 download)
Download or read book It's Part of What We Are - Volumes 1 and 2 - Volume 1: Richard Boyle (1566-1643) to John Tyndall (1820-1893); Volume 2: Samuel Haughton (18210-1897) to John Stewart Bell (1928-1990) written by Charles Mollan and published by Charles Mollan. This book was released on 2007-11-15 with total page 1887 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biographies of more than 100 Irish scientists (or those with strong Irish connections), in the disciplines of Chemistry and Physics, including Astronomy, Mathematics etc., describing them in their Irish and international scientific, social, educational and political context. Written in an attractive informal style for the hypothetical 'educated layman' who does not need to have studied science. Well received in Irish and international reviews.
Author : Barbara Brodman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 161147583X
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)
Download or read book Images of the Modern Vampire written by Barbara Brodman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013-10-04 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the predecessor to this book, The Universal Vampire: Origins and Evolution of a Legend, Brodman and Doan presented discussions of the development of the vampire in the West from the early Norse draugr figure to the medieval European revenant and ultimately to Dracula, who first appears as a vampire in Anglo-Irish Bram Stoker’s novel, Dracula, published in 1897. The essays in that collection also looked at the non-Western vampire in Native American and Mesoamerican traditions, Asian and Russian vampires in popular culture, and the vampire in contemporary novels, film and television. The essays in this collection continue that multi-cultural and multigeneric discussion by tracing the development of the post-modern vampire, in films ranging from Shadow of a Doubt to Blade, The Wisdom of Crocodiles and Interview with the Vampire; the male and female vampires in the Twilight films, Sookie Stackhouse novels and TrueBlood television series; the vampire in African American women’s fiction, Anne Rice’s novels and in the post-apocalyptic I Am Legend; vampires in Japanese anime; and finally, to bring the volumes full circle, the presentation of a new Irish Dracula play, adapted from the novel and set in 1888.
Author : Jane Ohlmeyer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192693522
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)
Download or read book Making Empire written by Jane Ohlmeyer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-11-09 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ireland was England's oldest colony. Making Empire revisits the history of empire in Ireland—in a time of Brexit, 'the culture wars', and the campaigns around 'Black Lives Matter' and 'Statues must fall'—to better understand how it has formed the present, and how it might shape the future. Empire and imperial frameworks, policies, practices, and cultures have shaped the history of the world for the last two millennia. It is nation states that are the blip on the historical horizon. Making Empire re-examines empire as process—and Ireland's role in it—through the lens of early modernity. It covers the two hundred years, between the mid-sixteenth century and the mid-eighteenth century, that equate roughly to the timespan of the First English Empire (c.1550-c.1770s). Ireland was England's oldest colony. How then did the English empire actually function in early modern Ireland and how did this change over time? What did access to European empires mean for people living in Ireland? This book answers these questions by interrogating four interconnected themes. First, that Ireland formed an integral part of the English imperial system, Second, that the Irish operated as agents of empire(s). Third, Ireland served as laboratory in and for the English empire. Finally, it examines the impact that empire(s) had on people living in early modern Ireland. Even though the book's focus will be on Ireland and the English empire, the Irish were trans-imperial and engaged with all of the early modern imperial powers. It is therefore critical, where possible and appropriate, to look to other European and global empires for meaningful comparisons and connections in this era of expansionism. What becomes clear is that colonisation was not a single occurrence but an iterative and durable process that impacted different parts of Ireland at different times and in different ways. That imperialism was about the exercise of power, violence, coercion and expropriation. Strategies about how best to turn conquest into profit, to mobilise and control Ireland's natural resources, especially land and labour, varied but the reality of everyday life did not change and provoked a wide variety of responses ranging from acceptance and assimilation to resistance. This book, based on the 2021 James Ford Lectures, Oxford University, suggests that the moment has come revisit the history of empire, if only to better understand how it has formed the present, and how this might shape the future.
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198848315
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)
Download or read book The Devil from Over the Sea written by and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-24 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Ireland, few figures have generated more hatred than Oliver Cromwell, whose seventeenth-century conquest, massacres, and dispossessions would endure in the social memory for ages to come. The Devil from over the Sea explores the many ways in which Cromwell was remembered and sometimes conveniently 'forgotten' in historical, religious, political, and literary texts, according to the interests of different communities across time. Cromwell's powerful afterlife in Ireland, however, cannot be understood without also investigating his presence in folklore and the landscape, in ruins and curses. Nor can he be separated from the idea of the 'Cromwellian': a term which came to elicit an entire chain of contemptuous associations that would begin after his invasion and assume a wholly new force in the nineteenth century. What emerges from all these memorializing traces is a multitudinous Cromwell who could be represented as brutal, comic, sympathetic, or satanic. He could be discarded also, tellingly, from the accounts of the past, and especially by those which viewed him as an embarrassment or worse. In addition to exploring the many reasons why Cromwell was so vehemently remembered or forgotten in Ireland, Sarah Covington finally uncovers the larger truths conveyed by sometimes fanciful or invented accounts. Contrary to being damaging examples of myth-making, the memorializations contained in martyrologies, folk tales, or newspaper polemics were often productive in cohering communities, or in displaying agency in the form of 'counter-memories' that claimed Cromwell for their own and reshaped Irish history in the process.
Author : Helen Walsh Folsom
Publisher : Cumberland House Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781581823554
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (235 download)
Download or read book Ah, Those Irish Colleens! written by Helen Walsh Folsom and published by Cumberland House Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While women in modern Western society have spent the last century fighting for equal rights, women in ancient Ireland were accorded legal equality with men. Under the Brehon Laws women had the right to own property, rule territories, seek an education, and sue for divorce. Celtic women were also warriors, frequently taking up arms and marching into battle with their brothers and husbands.
Author : Mary O'Dowd
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131787725X
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)
Download or read book A History of Women in Ireland, 1500-1800 written by Mary O'Dowd and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-17 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first general survey of the history of women in early modern Ireland. Based on an impressive range of source material, it presents the results of original research into women’s lives and experiences in Ireland from 1500 to 1800. This was a time of considerable change in Ireland as English colonisation, religious reform and urbanisation transformed society on the island. Gaelic society based on dynastic lordships and Brehon Law gave way to an anglicised and centralised form of government and an English legal system.
Author : Maria Luddy
Publisher : Cork University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781859180389
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (83 download)
Download or read book Women in Ireland, 1800-1918 written by Maria Luddy and published by Cork University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women in Ireland 1800-1918 presents a valuable and significant collection of over 100 sources and documents relating to the public and private aspects of women's lives in Ireland during the period 1800-1918. The documents reveal aspects of the women's working lives, educational experiences, involvement in politics and of their private lives such as contraception, childbirth, love, marriage and religion. Each section has a comprehensive introduction which discusses the contents of the documents. As the first major survey of Irish women's lives during this period, it will appeal to those who want a deeper understanding of how women of all classes lived their lives and it will prove indispensable to second and third level students, those attending women's studies courses, as well as a wide general readership interested in assessing the role of women in nineteenth and early twentieth-century Irish history.
Author : W. B. Yeats
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415626315
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (156 download)
Download or read book Beltaine (Routledge Revivals) written by W. B. Yeats and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1970, this book is a faithful representation of the original edition of Beltaine, a literary magazine edited by W. B. Yeats from May 1899 to April 1900. Beltaine was the first of several magazines of the Irish Literary Theatre (later to become The Abbey Theatre) in which Yeats's editorial role was of utmost importance. It was an occasional publication and focused on promoting current works of Irish playwrights whilst challenging those of their English opponents. The magazine mainly consists of a series of essays on the theatre in Dublin, and supplementing these are explanations and discussions of new plays, excerpts from which are often included. This book will be of interest to those with an interest in Yeats, early nineteenth-century literature, and Irish theatre.
Author : Dr. Robert Curran
Publisher : The O'Brien Press
ISBN 13 : 1847175058
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (471 download)
Download or read book A Bewitched Land written by Dr. Robert Curran and published by The O'Brien Press. This book was released on 2012-10-04 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Witch trials in the European or American sense were not common in Ireland although they did occur. In this book the stories of four remarkable court cases that took place from the fourteenth to the nineteenth century are told; other chapters chronicle the extraordinary lives of individuals deemed to be practitioners of the black arts – hedge witches, sorcerers and sinister characters. The book gives a unique insight into the fascinating overlap between witch belief and the vast range of fairy lore that held sway for many centuries throughout the land.
Author : Anthea Sharp
Publisher : Fiddlehead Press
ISBN 13 : 1680131591
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (81 download)
Download or read book Faerie Hearts: A Romantic Fantasy Collection written by Anthea Sharp and published by Fiddlehead Press. This book was released on 2023-08-15 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magical happily-ever-afters are yours in this brand new collection of sweetly romantic stories from USA Today bestselling author Anthea Sharp. From a heroine of Celtic legend to an intrepid elf warrior, fall in love with these couples bound by fate, who must fight for everything they hold dear in order to gain their true loves. Inspired by legends and fairytales, each story is filled with adventure, enchantment and, of course, plenty of (non-spicy) romance! THE FAERIE MAIDEN OF THE OAKS - Based on an Irish legend, a fey woman marries the human lord who has captured her heart. But beware faerie bargains... HEART OF THE FOREST - A prince becomes lost in a mystical forest, where he must fight for his life at the side of a moon-haired elf maiden who may hold the answer to his dreams. (Connected to the Darkwood series) THE GIFT OF LOVE - Whether it's romantic love, or the deep ties of family, a perceptive young woman works to heal the hurts of a wounded heart. PRINCESS OF SALT - When a princess tells her father the truth, he banishes her from the castle. She must face many trials to gain back not only her true love, but the acceptance of her family once more. THE WITCH OF THE WOODS - A brand new twist on a beloved fairytale, where nothing is as it seems. Will appeal to fans of lush romantic fantasy, and readers of Elise Kova, Sylvia Mercedes, Juliet Marillier, and Naomi Novik.
