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Book Synopsis The Scariff Martyrs by : Tomás Mac Conmara
Download or read book The Scariff Martyrs written by Tomás Mac Conmara and published by Mercier Press Ltd. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ' This incredible book is very, very important'. Damien Dempsey In November 2008, Tomás Mac Conmara sat with a 105 five-year-old woman at a nursing home in Clare. While gently moving through her memories, he asked the east Clare native; 'Do you remember the time that four lads were killed on the Bridge of Killaloe?'. Almost immediately, the woman's countenance changed to deep outward sadness. Her recollection took him back to 17th November 1920, when news of the brutal death of four men, who became known as the Scariff Martyrs, was revealed to the local community. Late the previous night, on the bridge of Killaloe they were shot by British Forces, who claimed they had attempted to escape. Locals insisted they were murdered. A story remembered for 100 years is now fully told. This incident presents a remarkable confluence of dimensions. The young rebels committed to a cause. Their betrayal by a spy, their torture and evident refusal to betray comrades, the loneliness and liminal nature of their site of death on a bridge. The withholding of their dead bodies and their collective burial. All these dimensions bequeath a moment which carries an enduring quality that has reverberated across the generations and continues to strike a deep chord within the local landscape of memory in East Clare and beyond.
Book Synopsis The Time of the Tans by : Tomás Mac Conmara
Download or read book The Time of the Tans written by Tomás Mac Conmara and published by Mercier Press Ltd. This book was released on 2019-02-01 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Black and Tans [raises voice] raided my aunt's house where my mother was in bed at three o'clock in the morning ... I was due to be born three days later ... she got a stroke of paralysis and lost the power of all her left side. So I never saw my mother walk ... she could get around with the aid of a chair.'Stories of the Black and Tans have been told across Ireland since the force was first released into the country in March 1920. Casting a dark and lingering shadow, they remain an evocative and emotive category of memory. For people who lived through it and those who inherited associated stories, the Black and Tans were the embodiment of British repression, violence and malevolence. The Irish War of Independence is a landmark in the chronology of Irish history and profoundly affected all areas of life. Much of that experience was never recorded.Based on Tomás Mac Conmara's almost two decades of oral history recordings, selected from over 400 interviews, as well as access to multiple private family collections, The Time of the Tans illuminates the stories of a period that has dominated the historical consciousness of Ireland. From direct testimony of 105-year-old Margaret Hoey, to the inherited tradition of Flan O'Brien, who was born in 1927, the stories pulsate with an intensity of emotion. The majority of interviewees who were recorded for this research have sadly since passed away. Now, their memories which have been preserved for posterity, breathe new life into an enduringly important period in modern Irish history.
Download or read book Deception and Lies written by David Burke and published by Mercier Press Ltd. This book was released on 2020-09-18 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In May of 1970, two government ministers were dismissed from Cabinet for allegedly purchasing guns for the IRA. The Taoiseach Jack Lynch disavowed any knowledge of the plot. Few believed him. Charles Haughey, Minister for Finance, a captain in Irish military intelligence along with two others were put on trial. All were acquitted. Haughey refused to talk about the crisis for the rest of his life. Fianna Fail endured decades of splits, turmoil and leadership heaves. Until now, no one has revealed the pivotal role of an IRA informer in the affair. The part he played became the best-kept State secret of the last half-century. The book also reveals a dirty tricks campaign by Britain's Foreign Office to conceal the ancillary role of a British agent called Capt. Markham-Randall in the murder of Garda Richard Fallon on the eve of the eruption of the Arms Crisis.
Book Synopsis Atlas and Cyclopedia of Ireland by : Patrick Weston Joyce
Download or read book Atlas and Cyclopedia of Ireland written by Patrick Weston Joyce and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Diocese of Killaloe from the Reformation to the Close of the Eighteenth Century by : Philip Dwyer
Download or read book The Diocese of Killaloe from the Reformation to the Close of the Eighteenth Century written by Philip Dwyer and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Ireland Since Parnell by : Daniel Desmond Sheehan
Download or read book Ireland Since Parnell written by Daniel Desmond Sheehan and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 1921 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Fall of Feudalism in Ireland by : Michael Davitt
Download or read book The Fall of Feudalism in Ireland written by Michael Davitt and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Men Will Talk to Me: Clare Interviews by : Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc
Download or read book The Men Will Talk to Me: Clare Interviews written by Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc and published by Mercier Press Ltd. This book was released on 2016-06-27 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains interviews with members of the IRA's Mid Clare and East Clare Brigades. It includes details of the Rineen Ambush, which was, at that time, the largest and most successful operation that the IRA had conducted against the RIC. It also includes an eyewitness account of the reprisals in Miltown Malbay carried out in revenge for the ambush and a fascinating account of IRA operations in Ennis during the War of Independence, including details of Republican sympathisers within the RIC garrison who provided the IRA with information, and the activities of local loyalists who assisted the British forces. There is also an account of the 'Scariff Martyrs', who were killed by members of the RIC Auxiliary Division on Killaloe Bridge. The Civil War also features prominently, with Paddy MacMahon discussing his capture during the 'Battle of the Four Courts' in Dublin.
Book Synopsis The Great Irish Potato Famine by : James S Donnelly
Download or read book The Great Irish Potato Famine written by James S Donnelly and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2002-11-01 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the century before the great famine of the late 1840s, the Irish people, and the poor especially, became increasingly dependent on the potato for their food. So when potato blight struck, causing the tubers to rot in the ground, they suffered a grievous loss. Thus began a catastrophe in which approximately one million people lost their lives and many more left Ireland for North America, changing the country forever. During and after this terrible human crisis, the British government was bitterly accused of not averting the disaster or offering enough aid. Some even believed that the Whig government's policies were tantamount to genocide against the Irish population. James Donnelly's account looks closely at the political and social consequences of the great Irish potato famine and explores the way that natural disasters and government responses to them can alter the destiny of nations.
Book Synopsis Black '47 and Beyond by : Cormac Ó Gráda
Download or read book Black '47 and Beyond written by Cormac Ó Gráda and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here Ireland's premier economic historian and one of the leading authorities on the Great Irish Famine examines the most lethal natural disaster to strike Europe in the nineteenth century. Between the mid-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, the food source that we still call the Irish potato had allowed the fastest population growth in the whole of Western Europe. As vividly described in Ó Gráda's new work, the advent of the blight phytophthora infestans transformed the potato from an emblem of utility to a symbol of death by starvation. The Irish famine peaked in Black '47, but it brought misery and increased mortality to Ireland for several years. Central to Irish and British history, European demography, the world history of famines, and the story of American immigration, the Great Irish Famine is presented here from a variety of new perspectives. Moving away from the traditional narrative historical approach to the catastrophe, Ó Gráda concentrates instead on fresh insights available through interdisciplinary and comparative methods. He highlights several economic and sociological features of the famine previously neglected in the literature, such as the part played by traders and markets, by medical science, and by migration. Other topics include how the Irish climate, usually hospitable to the potato, exacerbated the failure of the crops in 1845-1847, and the controversial issue of Britain's failure to provide adequate relief to the dying Irish. Ó Gráda also examines the impact on urban Dublin of what was mainly a rural disaster and offers a critical analysis of the famine as represented in folk memory and tradition. The broad scope of this book is matched by its remarkable range of sources, published and archival. The book will be the starting point for all future research into the Irish famine.
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.
Book Synopsis The Midland Septs and the Pale by : Francis Ryan Montgomery Hitchcock
Download or read book The Midland Septs and the Pale written by Francis Ryan Montgomery Hitchcock and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Sir Brook Fossbrooke by : Charles James Lever
Download or read book Sir Brook Fossbrooke written by Charles James Lever and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Brass Bands of the British Isles 1800-2018 - a historical directory by : Gavin Holman
Download or read book Brass Bands of the British Isles 1800-2018 - a historical directory written by Gavin Holman and published by Gavin Holman. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of the many brass bands that have flourished in Britain and Ireland over the last 200 years very few have documented records covering their history. This directory is an attempt to collect together information about such bands and make it available to all. Over 19,600 bands are recorded here, with some 10,600 additional cross references for alternative or previous names. This volume supersedes the earlier “British Brass Bands – a Historical Directory” (2016) and includes some 1,400 bands from the island of Ireland. A separate work is in preparation covering brass bands beyond the British Isles. A separate appendix lists the brass bands in each county
Book Synopsis Black's Guide to Ireland by : Adam and Charles Black (Firm)
Download or read book Black's Guide to Ireland written by Adam and Charles Black (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Five Irish Women written by Emer Nolan and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book offers five interlinked portraits of Irish women artists and political figures: Edna O'Brien, Sinéad O'Connor, Nuala O'Faolain, Bernadette McAliskey and Anne Enright.
Book Synopsis Corporation Book of Ennis by : Brian Ó Dálaigh
Download or read book Corporation Book of Ennis written by Brian Ó Dálaigh and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "... Here edited for the first time, is a record of the transactions of Ennis Corporation in the period 1660-1810. The book is essentially a transcription of the corporation records mad by the town clerk John ÓDonnell in 1796... it illustrates how a provincial corporation, dominated by a Protestant elite, functioned in an overwhelmingly Catholic town in the eighteenth century." --Dust jacket.
