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The Largest Baby in Ireland after the Famine

Author : Anne Barnett
Publisher : Mereo Books
ISBN 13 : 186151526X
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (615 download)

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Download or read book The Largest Baby in Ireland after the Famine written by Anne Barnett and published by Mereo Books. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every Sunday the men met at the bridge. Felix Campbell was there with a couple dozen men. They were all shapes and sizes, ages and wits. What they shared was history, what they knew was their place. Farmers all, some creating the impression that they lived a more urgent and passionate existence in the fighting fields of France, than in the potato fields of reality. Felix was smoking and talking when the bridge-gatherers spotted a figure moving over the brae. The walker was a woman, most certainly, but who? Women's strict observance of the day of rest left little time for gallivanting. And where could a stranger be heading when there was nowhere she could go that the men wouldn't have known about? Then the woman appeared. She was all colour and sway, and as far away as imaginable from the local women. Pale, pale skin and strong dark auburn hair falling free to large wide hips. She wore a purple shawl. That night Felix, a bachelor, aged 43, living in the house he was born in, dreamt of purple. Purple in the shape of a woman.

The Largest Baby in Ireland after the Famine

Author : Anne Barnett
Publisher : Romaunce Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Largest Baby in Ireland after the Famine written by Anne Barnett and published by Romaunce Books. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the title of Anne Barnett’s debut novel suggests, this is “a tale that makes things bigger than they are”. The everyday, intricate dramas of a 1920s mid-Ulster rural community are observed with the grace, humour and languor of a fine story-telling voice that is assured, romantic and replete with the dour idiomatic phrases of people who never travel beyond a 10-mile radius. In the townland of Ballymully, near Cookstown, lives Felix Campbell, a Protestant and a bachelor through and through, who at 42, dreams of a woman in purple. “He grew up in a glen with a glen-shaped soul, and baptism in his heart and catechism in his mind”, unprepared for “the tribulations of high emotion”, so when he falls for Sarah-Ann O’Malloran, a big bawdy widow with 14 children, his soul sparks for the first time and he discovers lonesomeness. In Sarah-Ann, irrepressible, idiosyncratically attired and unconcerned about the morals of “a very small town in the centre of a very small country”, Barnett creates an exceptionally vivid, larger-than-life character, who was born weighing in at 13 pounds, is the novel’s eponymous heroine. Not only does she cavort in “silly frippery” with Sean Boyd, the polygamist, she’s Catholic and that strikes fear into the Ulstermen who gather on the bridge of a Sunday, not only for Felix’s heart, but for his farm as well. “Irish history is always the same … To be born Protestant or Catholic in Ireland, almost always sets the course of a man’s political identity … It was as easy as telling a dog from a cat.” Against the backdrop of World War One, which Protestants hope will end Home Rule for good, Felix awkwardly courts Sarah-Ann, regardless of the inevitably cruel gossip. The narrative lilts and circles in a seductive dance around the shame and uncertainty of the lovers. Its incantatory tone invokes generations of myth, while its sharp and funny characterisations and colloquialisms give a blunt and honest modernity. Sarah-Ann may have hair “as black as a raven’s” but she wears no knickers. In detailing the small gestures, sleights, motions and notions of a community split by repressed and powerful emotions, Barnett evokes the wider incongruities of history and the oddities of desire and allegiance.

The Europa Directory of Literary Awards and Prizes

Author : Europa
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135356327
Total Pages : 533 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (353 download)

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Download or read book The Europa Directory of Literary Awards and Prizes written by Europa and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Jamie O'Rourke and the Big Potato

Author : Tomie dePaola
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101653450
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Jamie O'Rourke and the Big Potato written by Tomie dePaola and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1997-01-27 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hilarious read-aloud inspired by Irish folklore that’s perfect for St. Patrick’s Day, featuring colorful artwork in Tomie dePaola’s signature style. Jamie O'Rourke is the laziest man in all of Ireland, far too lazy to help his wife on their farm. Then, after a chance encounter with a leprechaun, Jamie finds himself growing the biggest potato in the world. But what will happen when the potato grows too large for Jamie and the villagers to handle?

Books Ireland

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Books Ireland written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ireland Before and After the Famine

Author : Cormac Ó Gráda
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719040351
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Ireland Before and After the Famine written by Cormac Ó Gráda and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition of Cormac O'Grada's study expands upon his central arguments about the agricultural and demographic developments surrounding the Great Irish Famine. It provides new statistical information, new appendices and integrated responses to the new research and writing on the subject that has appeared since the publication of the first edition in 1987.

The Graves Are Walking

Author : John Kelly
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0805095632
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Graves Are Walking written by John Kelly and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Though the story of the potato famine has been told before, it’s never been as thoroughly reported or as hauntingly told.” —New York Post It started in 1845 and before it was over more than one million men, women, and children would die and another two million would flee the country. Measured in terms of mortality, the Great Irish Potato Famine was the worst disaster in the nineteenth century—it claimed twice as many lives as the American Civil War. A perfect storm of bacterial infection, political greed, and religious intolerance sparked this catastrophe. But even more extraordinary than its scope were its political underpinnings, and The Graves Are Walking provides fresh material and analysis on the role that Britain’s nation-building policies played in exacerbating the devastation by attempting to use the famine to reshape Irish society and character. Religious dogma, anti-relief sentiment, and racial and political ideology combined to result in an almost inconceivable disaster of human suffering. This is ultimately a story of triumph over perceived destiny: for fifty million Americans of Irish heritage, the saga of a broken people fleeing crushing starvation and remaking themselves in a new land is an inspiring story of revival. Based on extensive research and written with novelistic flair, The Graves Are Walking draws a portrait that is both intimate and panoramic, that captures the drama of individual lives caught up in an unimaginable tragedy, while imparting a new understanding of the famine’s causes and consequences. “Magisterial . . . Kelly brings the horror vividly and importantly back to life with his meticulous research and muscular writing. The result is terrifying, edifying and empathetic.” —USA Today

The Famine Plot

Author : Tim Pat Coogan
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1137045175
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book The Famine Plot written by Tim Pat Coogan and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2012-11-27 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During a Biblical seven years in the middle of the nineteenth century, Ireland experienced the worst disaster a nation could suffer. Fully a quarter of its citizens either perished from starvation or emigrated, with so many dying en route that it was said, "you can walk dry shod to America on their bodies." In this grand, sweeping narrative, Ireland''s best-known historian, Tim Pat Coogan, gives a fresh and comprehensive account of one of the darkest chapters in world history, arguing that Britain was in large part responsible for the extent of the national tragedy, and in fact engineered the food shortage in one of the earliest cases of ethnic cleansing. So strong was anti-Irish sentiment in the mainland that the English parliament referred to the famine as "God's lesson." Drawing on recently uncovered sources, and with the sharp eye of a seasoned historian, Coogan delivers fresh insights into the famine's causes, recounts its unspeakable events, and delves into the legacy of the "famine mentality" that followed immigrants across the Atlantic to the shores of the United States and had lasting effects on the population left behind. This is a broad, magisterial history of a tragedy that shook the nineteenth century and still impacts the worldwide Irish diaspora of nearly 80 million people today.

The Reality of His Fictions

Author : Maura Megahey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Reality of His Fictions written by Maura Megahey and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Kaapse bibliotekaris

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kaapse bibliotekaris written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Issues for Nov. 1957- include section: Accessions. Aanwinste, Sept. 1957-

The Great Famine

Author : Ciarán Ó Murchadha
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 144113977X
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book The Great Famine written by Ciarán Ó Murchadha and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-06-02 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over one million people died in the Great Famine, and more than one million more emigrated on the coffin ships to America and beyond. Drawing on contemporary eyewitness accounts and diaries, the book charts the arrival of the potato blight in 1845 and the total destruction of the harvests in 1846 which brought a sense of numbing shock to the populace. Far from meeting the relief needs of the poor, the Liberal public works programme was a first example of how relief policies would themselves lead to mortality. Workhouses were swamped with thousands who had subsisted on public works and soup kitchens earlier, and who now gathered in ragged crowds. Unable to cope, workhouse staff were forced to witness hundreds die where they lay, outside the walls. The next phase of degradation was the clearances, or exterminations in popular parlance which took place on a colossal scale. From late 1847 an exodus had begun. The Famine slowly came to an end from late 1849 but the longer term consequences were to reverberate through future decades.

The Irish Assassins

Author : Julie Kavanagh
Publisher : Grove Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 0802149383
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book The Irish Assassins written by Julie Kavanagh and published by Grove Atlantic. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant true crime account of the assassinations that altered the course of Irish history from the “compulsively readable” writer (The Guardian). One sunlit evening, May 6, 1882, Lord Frederick Cavendish and Thomas Burke, Chief Secretary and Undersecretary for Ireland, were ambushed and stabbed to death while strolling through Phoenix Park in Dublin. The murders were funded by American supporters of Irish independence and carried out by the Invincibles, a militant faction of republicans armed with specially made surgeon’s blades. They put an end to the new spirit of goodwill that had been burgeoning between British Prime Minister William Gladstone and Ireland’s leader Charles Stewart Parnell as the men forged a secret pact to achieve peace and independence in Ireland—with the newly appointed Cavendish, Gladstone’s protégé, to play an instrumental role in helping to do so. In a story that spans Donegal, Dublin, London, Paris, New York, Cannes, and Cape Town, Julie Kavanagh thrillingly traces the crucial events that came before and after the murders. From the adulterous affair that caused Parnell’s downfall; to Queen Victoria’s prurient obsession with the assassinations; to the investigation spearheaded by Superintendent John Mallon, also known as the “Irish Sherlock Holmes,” culminating in the eventual betrayal and clandestine escape of leading Invincible James Carey and his murder on the high seas, The Irish Assassins brings us intimately into this fascinating story that shaped Irish politics and engulfed an Empire. Praise for Julie Kavanagh’s Nureyev: The Life “Easily the best biography of the year.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer “The definitive biography of ballet’s greatest star whose ego was as supersized as his talent.” —Tina Brown, award-winning journalist and author

GRADIVA JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY THEORY AND PRACTICE

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

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Book Review Index

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1520 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Book Review Index written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 1520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. 8-10 of the 1965-1984 master cumulation constitute a title index.

The Cambridge Social History of Modern Ireland

Author : Eugenio F. Biagini
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107095581
Total Pages : 651 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Social History of Modern Ireland written by Eugenio F. Biagini and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-27 with total page 651 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first textbook on the history of modern Ireland to adopt a social history perspective. Written by an international team of leading scholars, it draws on a wide range of disciplinary approaches and consistently sets Irish developments in a wider European and global context.

A Modest Proposal

Author : Jonathan Swift
Publisher : Modernista
ISBN 13 : 9180949193
Total Pages : 14 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book A Modest Proposal written by Jonathan Swift and published by Modernista. This book was released on 2024-05-30 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In one of the most powerful and darkly satirical works of the 18th century, a chilling solution is proposed to address the dire poverty and overpopulation plaguing Ireland. Jonathan Swift presents a shockingly calculated and seemingly rational argument for using the children of the poor as a food source, thereby addressing both the economic burden on society and the issue of hunger. This provocative piece is a masterful example of irony and social criticism, as it exposes the cruel attitudes and policies of the British ruling class towards the Irish populace. Jonathan Swift's incisive critique not only underscores the absurdity of the proposed solution but also serves as a profound commentary on the exploitation and mistreatment of the oppressed. A Modest Proposal remains a quintessential example of satirical literature, its biting wit and moral indignation as relevant today as it was at the time of its publication. JONATHAN SWIFT [1667-1745] was an Anglo-Irish author, poet, and satirist. His deadpan satire led to the coining of the term »Swiftian«, describing satire of similarly ironic writing style. He is most famous for the novel Gulliver’s Travels [1726] and the essay A Modest Proposal [1729].

An Irish Country Doctor

Author : Patrick Taylor
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 9780765368249
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (682 download)

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Download or read book An Irish Country Doctor written by Patrick Taylor and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2011-08-02 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book was previously published in 2004 under the title The apprenticeship of Doctor Laverty, by Insomniac Press, Toronto"--T.p. verso.