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Book Synopsis The Most Famous Irish People You've Never Heard of by : Colin Murphy
Download or read book The Most Famous Irish People You've Never Heard of written by Colin Murphy and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: STORIES OF ADVENTURE & ACHIEVEMENT INVENTORS, GOLD-DIGGERS, MILITARY LEADERS, SPIES, RABBLE-ROUSERS, SOLDIERS, COURTESANS, ACE PILOTS DETECTIVES, ATHLETES, HEROES Irish people have left their mark on virtually every corner of the globe. This fascinating book tells the stories of the Irish who are justly celebrated in their adopted homelands, but virtually unknown in Ireland. William Melville from Kerry, the First Head of MI5 Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty from Cork, who rescued 4,000 Jews and Allied Servicemen from the Nazis James Hoban from Kilkenny who designed The White House Jennie Hodgers from Louth who served three years in Union Army during the American Civil War - as a man George McElroy from Dublin who became one of World war I's outstanding aerial aces And many more ...
Book Synopsis The Most Famous Irish People You've Never Heard Of by : Colin Murphy
Download or read book The Most Famous Irish People You've Never Heard Of written by Colin Murphy and published by The O'Brien Press. This book was released on 2012-10-15 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: STORIES OF ADVENTURE & ACHIEVEMENT INVENTORS, GOLD-DIGGERS, MILITARY LEADERS, SPIES, RABBLE-ROUSERS, SOLDIERS, COURTESANS, ACE PILOTS DETECTIVES, ATHLETES, HEROES Irish people have left their mark on virtually every corner of the globe. This fascinating book tells the stories of the Irish who are justly celebrated in their adopted homelands, but virtually unknown in Ireland. - William Melville from Kerry, the First Head of MI5 - Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty from Cork, who rescued 4,000 Jews and Allied Servicemen from the Nazis - James Hoban from Kilkenny who designed The White House - Jennie Hodgers from Louth who served three years in Union Army during the American Civil War - as a man - George McElroy from Dublin who became one of World war I's outstanding aerial aces And many more ...
Book Synopsis More Stuff Irish People Love by : Colin Murphy
Download or read book More Stuff Irish People Love written by Colin Murphy and published by The O'Brien Press Ltd. This book was released on 2017-04-05 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you love the taste of Red Lemonade, change into your swimming togs under a towel on the beach or find yourself admiring 'the grand stretch in the evenings'? Then this book, jammed with hilarious reflections on what it is to be Irish, will have you nodding in agreement with every turn of the page. Contains approximately 100 things that Irish people like, such as; - Waving hello to complete strangers on country roads. - Using the 'cupla focal' to stress our Irishness when on holidays. - Going for a few pints after mass. - Claiming a relative who fought in the Easter Rising. - Explaining hurling to foreigners. - Nicknaming statues, for example 'The Floozie in the Jacuzzi'.
Book Synopsis Stuff Irish People Love by : Colin Murphy
Download or read book Stuff Irish People Love written by Colin Murphy and published by The O'Brien Press Ltd. This book was released on 2017-04-10 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you love the taste of Red Lemonade, change into your swimming togs under a towel on the beach or find yourself admiring 'the grand stretch in the evenings'? Then this book, jammed with hilarious reflections on what it is to be Irish, will have you nodding in agreement with every turn of the page. Contains approximately 100 things that Irish people like, such as; - Waving hello to complete strangers on country roads. - Using the 'cupla focal' to stress our Irishness when on holidays. - Going for a few pints after mass. - Claiming a relative who fought in the Easter Rising. - Explaining hurling to foreigners. - Nicknaming statues, for example 'The Floozie in the Jacuzzi'.
Book Synopsis 20 Things To Do In Dublin Before You Go For a Pint by : Colin Murphy
Download or read book 20 Things To Do In Dublin Before You Go For a Pint written by Colin Murphy and published by The O'Brien Press. This book was released on 2014-02-24 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Got some time on your hands before you hit Dublin's famous pubs? Then you need this book, an invaluable guide to twenty of Dublin's highlights for visitors and native alike. History, culture, strangeness and beauty are all here -- along with a list of the local hostelries to visit and let the experience soak in. Sprinkled with the wit of Murphy and O'Dea, best known for the Feckin' Collection. Key attractions include: - Christ Church Cathedral - Dublin Castle - The Chester Beatty Library - The Guinness Storehouse - Trinity College - Temple Bar - Royal Hospital, Kilmainham (IMMA) - Old Jameson Distillery - O'Connell Street & The GPO And many more!
Download or read book Boycott written by Colin Murphy and published by The O'Brien Press. This book was released on 2012-11-16 with total page 669 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boycott - a word whose meaning is known the world over. But it once belonged to a man. Two brothers, Owen and Thomas Joyce, barely survive the horror of the great famine that devastated Ireland in the 1840s. But it left a lasting effect on both of them. Three decades later they are thrown together during the Land War, when evictions and landlord cruelty reach an intolerable level. But Thomas places his trust in the gun, while Owen backs the passive resistance advocated by the Land League. Captain Charles Boycott, an English land agent in Mayo, becomes the first to suffer this new form of revolt, when he and his family are ostracised. It is a David versus Goliath situation, with Boycott supported by the military, the police, the press, the British Government. How can peasants stand against an empire? And how will the two brothers reconcile their differences and confront their troubled past? A novel of brotherly love and brotherly conflict.
Book Synopsis The Priest Hunters by : Colin Murphy
Download or read book The Priest Hunters written by Colin Murphy and published by The O'Brien Press. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating investigation the lives of four priest hunters – Sean na Sagart, Edward Tyrrell, Barry Lowe and John Garzia. Ireland in the aftermath of Cromwell – during this period Catholicism and Irish nationalism became inexorably linked and priests were outlawed. The Priest Hunters shines a light on these men who hunted them. Sean naSagart was Irishman who was been condemned to death for horse stealing but was reprieved on condition he become a priest hunter. Edward Tyrrell was an English mercenary driven solely by greed. Barry Lowe indulged in such acts as tying a priest behind his horse and dragging him through the brush. John Garzia, who had fled the Spanish Inquisition, arrived in Ireland and evidently sought revenge hunting down priests. An incredible account of some of the most hated men in Ireland.
Book Synopsis A Feckin' Tour of Ireland by : Colin Murphy
Download or read book A Feckin' Tour of Ireland written by Colin Murphy and published by The O'Brien Press Ltd. This book was released on 2020-02-10 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Emerald Isle has something for everyone, from the stupendous coastline and cliffs of the Wild Atlantic Way in the west to the culture and cuisine of the Ancient East; from the castles and forts of the historic north to the famed golden beaches of the beautiful south – and not forgetting the mighty craic and decent watering holes to be found everywhere in between! Humorous information about 50 key tourist attractions in Ireland, accompanied by photographs and illustrations. A light-hearted guide of Ireland for natives and visitors alike. Featured destinations include: - The Game of Thrones Tour - The Giant's Causeway Coastal Route - Kilmainham Gaol - Glasnevin Cemetery & Museum - Newgrange, Knowth and Dowth - Powerscourt House & Gardens - King John's Castle - Irish National Stud & Gardens - Yeats Country
Book Synopsis Stuff Irish People Love by : Colin Murphy
Download or read book Stuff Irish People Love written by Colin Murphy and published by O'Brien Press. This book was released on 2011-10-24 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you love the taste of Red Lemonade, change into your swimming togs under a towel on the beach, or find yourself admiring "the grand stretch in the evenings"? Then this book, jammed with hilarious reflections on what it is to be Irish, will have you nodding in agreement with every turn of the page. And for those who don't have the good fortune to come from the Emerald Isle, it will explain a lot! Contains approximately 100 things that Irish people like, such as waving hello to complete strangers on country roads; using the cupla focal' to stress our Irishness when on holidays; going for a few pints after mass; claiming a relative who fought in the Easter Rising; explaining hurling to foreigners; and, nicknaming statues, for example The Floozie in the Jacuzzi'.
Book Synopsis Ancestral Recall by : Aoife Assumpta Hart
Download or read book Ancestral Recall written by Aoife Assumpta Hart and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2016-06-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite distance and differences in culture, the early twentieth century was a time of literary cross-pollination between Ireland and Japan. Notably, the Irish poet and playwright William Butler Yeats had a powerful influence on Japanese letters, at the same time that contemporary and classical Japanese literature and theatre impacted Yeats’s own literary experiments. Citing an extraordinary range of Japanese and Irish texts, Aoife Hart argues that Japanese translations of Irish Gaelic folklore and their subsequent reception back in Ireland created collisions, erasures, and confusions in the interpretations of literary works. Assessing the crucial roles of translation and transnationalism in cross-cultural exchanges between the Celtic Revival and Japanese writers of the modern period, Hart proves that interlingual dialogue and folklore have the power to reconstruct a culture’s sense of heritage. Rejecting the notion that the Celtic Revival was inward and parochial, Hart suggests that, seeking to protect their heritage from the forces of globalization, the Irish adapted their understanding of heritage to one that exists within the transnational contexts of modernity – a heritage that is locally produced but internationally circulated. In doing so, Hart maintains that the cultural contact and translation between the East and West traveled in more than one direction: it was a dialogue presenting modernity’s struggles with cosmopolitanism, gender, ethnic identity, and transnationalism. An inspired exploration of transpacific literary criticism, Yeats scholarship, and twentieth-century Japanese literature, Ancestral Recall tracks the interplay of complex ideas across languages and discourses.
Book Synopsis More Stuff Irish People Love by : Colin Murphy
Download or read book More Stuff Irish People Love written by Colin Murphy and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yet more essential insights into all that the Irish hold dear, from innocent traditions and mildly eccentric peculiarities to stuff that's just downright daft!
Book Synopsis Cobbett's Parliamentary Debates by : Great Britain. Parliament
Download or read book Cobbett's Parliamentary Debates written by Great Britain. Parliament and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 1034 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis The Book of Irish Songs Yer Oul' Fella Always Sang when He was Jarred at a Hooley by : Colin Murphy
Download or read book The Book of Irish Songs Yer Oul' Fella Always Sang when He was Jarred at a Hooley written by Colin Murphy and published by Feckin' Collection. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every song you never wanted to hear warbled again -- and then some. They're all here in all their glory -- every word, every line, every chorus of the most popular Irish songs ever to be performed through that happy, misty haze of alcohol. The only thing we can't guarantee is your singing.
Book Synopsis A Dictionary of Tolkien by : David Day
Download or read book A Dictionary of Tolkien written by David Day and published by Bounty. This book was released on 2015-08-17 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arranged in a handy A-Z format, A Dictionary of Tolkien explores and explains the creatures, plants, events and places that make up these strange and wonderful lands. It is essential reading for anyone who loves Tolkien's works and wants to learn more about them. This book is unofficial and is not authorised by the Tolkien Estate or HarperCollins Publishers.
Book Synopsis Who's Feckin' Who in Irish History by : Colin Murphy
Download or read book Who's Feckin' Who in Irish History written by Colin Murphy and published by The O'Brien Press. This book was released on 2014-10-13 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did an Irish monk discover America? Which rebel died of having a feckin' tooth pulled? And who in the name of Jaysus was responsible for the Pledge? If you've ever wondered how much of our rabble-rousing history is true, and how much a load of wojus oul' bull, then look no further. From the great to the gormless, this book is a hilarious parade of the life stories of Ireland's favourite heroes and gougers. Gathered in a collection of the best anecdotes from our chequered past, it will tell you everything you need to know about our writers, revolutionaries, and rogues. You never know - it might help you win the odd pub quiz as well... The Feckin' collection returns with a funny, original and quirky take on some of Ireland's most famous faces! Illustrated with photographs and cartoons, the book covers key Irish figures across the millenia like: William Butler Yeats - Nobel Prize winning poet Saint Patrick - Patron Saint of Ireland Sir Ernest Shacklton - legendary Antarctic explorer Jonathan Swift - the man who wrote Gulliver's Travels Grace O'Mally - the pirate queen who ran Queen Elizabeth's troups ragged Brian Boru - the last High King of Ireland And many more!
Download or read book Weekly World News written by and published by . This book was released on 1999-08-17 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rooted in the creative success of over 30 years of supermarket tabloid publishing, the Weekly World News has been the world's only reliable news source since 1979. The online hub www.weeklyworldnews.com is a leading entertainment news site.
