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Book Synopsis The Story of Tomás Mac Curtáin by : Fionnuala Mac Curtain
Download or read book The Story of Tomás Mac Curtáin written by Fionnuala Mac Curtain and published by Mercier Press Ltd. This book was released on 2011-03-03 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tomás MacCurtain, a dedicated family man, took an active role in the War of Independence. Originally from Ballyknockane in County Cork, his love of the Irish language and culture led him to become involved with the Gaelic League, the Irish Republican Brotherhood and the Irish Volunteers. A dedicated father and husband, he was in command of the Irish Volunteers in Cork during the 1916 Rising in Dublin. He was shot dead by British forces on 20 March 1920.&newpara;This short biography will open up this fascinating figure to younger readers.
Book Synopsis The Story of Tomás Mac Curtáin by : Fionnuala MacCurtain
Download or read book The Story of Tomás Mac Curtáin written by Fionnuala MacCurtain and published by Mercier Press Ltd. This book was released on 2011 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This short biography will open up this fascinating figure of Irish history to younger readers.
Book Synopsis Tomás MacCurtain by : Florence O'Donoghue
Download or read book Tomás MacCurtain written by Florence O'Donoghue and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Remember-- It's for Ireland by : Fionnuala Mac Curtain
Download or read book Remember-- It's for Ireland written by Fionnuala Mac Curtain and published by Mercier Press Ltd. This book was released on 2008-02-08 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In March 1920, Tomas MacCurtain, Lord Mayor of Cork, was shot dead in his own house, in front of his wife and young children, by men with blackened faces
Book Synopsis Tomás MacCurtain by : Florence O'Donoghue
Download or read book Tomás MacCurtain written by Florence O'Donoghue and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book In Memoriam Tomás Mac Curtain written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Eyewitness to Irish History by : Peter Berresford Ellis
Download or read book Eyewitness to Irish History written by Peter Berresford Ellis and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2008-04-21 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through sources ranging from ancient forsundun (praise songs) and the hero kings to newspaper accounts, public decrees, and even graffiti, this book offers vivid portraits of major events and everyday life in Ireland through the centuries—beginning with Golamh, the legendary leader of the band of Iberian Celts who settled the island more than three thousand years ago, and concluding with gripping accounts by those on both sides of the bloody civil conflict in Northern Ireland.
Book Synopsis Utter Disloyalist by : Donal Ó Drisceoil
Download or read book Utter Disloyalist written by Donal Ó Drisceoil and published by Mercier Press Ltd. This book was released on 2021-10-29 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tadhg Barry was the last high-profile victim of the crown forces during the Irish War of Independence. A veteran republican, trade unionist, journalist, poet, GAA official and alderman on Cork Corporation, he was shot dead in Ballykinlar internment camp on 15 November 1921. Barry's tragic death was a huge, but subsequently largely forgotten, event in Ireland. Dublin came to a standstill as a quarter of a million people lined the streets and the IRA had its last full mobilisation before the Treaty split. The funeral in Cork echoed those of Barry's comrades, the martyred lord mayors Tomás MacCurtain and Terence MacSwiney. The Anglo-Irish Treaty was signed three weeks later, all internees were released and the movement that elevated him to hero/martyr status was ripped asunder in the ensuing civil war. The name of Tadhg Barry became lost in the smoke. This is the first biography of a fascinating activist described by his British enemies as an 'Utter disloyalist' and by a comrade as 'a characteristic product of Rebel Cork – courageous, kindly, generous to a fault, bold and daring, and independent in speech and action'. It offers fascinating new perspectives on the dynamics of Ireland's long revolution, including glimpses of the roads not taken.
Book Synopsis Save Tomás Mac Curtain Public Meeting by : Liberty Press (Dublin)
Download or read book Save Tomás Mac Curtain Public Meeting written by Liberty Press (Dublin) and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Kevin Barry by : Carmel Uí Cheallaigh
Download or read book Kevin Barry written by Carmel Uí Cheallaigh and published by Mercier Press Ltd. This book was released on 2020-09-11 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a dark November morning in 1920, Kevin Barry, head held high, marched to his death in Mountjoy Prison. He was the first and youngest person hanged during the Irish War of Independence. Born the fourth of seven children, the family was split between Dublin and Carlow, after the early death of his father. He loved playing Gaelic football, Hurling and Rugby. A brilliant student, he won a scholarship to study medicine. Kevin also had another life, as a soldier in the Irish Volunteer Army with the sole purpose of obtaining a free independent Ireland. Then his two worlds collided and his part in the Monk's Bakery Ambush sealed his fate. By sticking to his principles and making the ultimate sacrifice, he instigated the move towards a truce that would change the course of Irish history forever. What led this teenager to forego his bright future for the gallows?
Book Synopsis Capital Punishment in Independent Ireland by : David M. Doyle
Download or read book Capital Punishment in Independent Ireland written by David M. Doyle and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-31 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive and nuanced historical survey of the death penalty in Ireland from the immediate post-civil war period through to its complete abolition. Using original archival material, this book sheds light on the various social, legal and political contexts in which the death penalty operated and was discussed. In Ireland the death penalty served a dual function: as an instrument of punishment in the civilian criminal justice system, and as a weapon to combat periodic threats to the security of the state posed by the Irish Republican Army (IRA). Through close examination of cases dealt with in the ordinary criminal courts, this study elucidates ideas of class, gender, community and sanity and explores their impact on the administration of justice. The application of the death penalty also had a strong political dimension, most evident in the enactment of emergency legislation and the setting up of military courts specifically aimed at the IRA. As the book demonstrates, the civilian and the political strands converged in the story of the abolition of the death penalty in Ireland. Long after decision-makers accepted that the death penalty was no longer an acceptable punishment for 'ordinary' cases of murder, lingering anxieties about the threat of subversives dictated the pace of abolition and the scope of the relevant legislation.
Book Synopsis The Fallen: Gardai Killed in Service 1922-49 by : Colm Wallace
Download or read book The Fallen: Gardai Killed in Service 1922-49 written by Colm Wallace and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2017-05-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1922 the fledgling Irish Free State decided to replace the RIC with the Civic Guard (An Garda Síochána). This new Irish police force found itself dealing with an unsettled population, many of whom were suspicions of law and order after centuries of forceful policing by the British. It was decided that the Gardaí would uphold the law with the consent of the people however, and that they would remain unarmed. This brave decision may have been popular with ordinary Irishmen and women, but it left members of the force vulnerable to attack and even murder. Many Gardaí met their death in the first decades of the Irish State. This is their story.
Book Synopsis 1916 - The Long Revolution by : Dermot Keogh
Download or read book 1916 - The Long Revolution written by Dermot Keogh and published by Mercier Press Ltd. This book was released on 2007-03-30 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction by Garret Fitzgerald. This book seeks to interpret the events of Easter Week 1916 as the central defining event of a 'long revolution' in Irish history. The origins of the long revolution lie in the second half of the nineteenth century, and its legacy is still being played out in the first years of the twenty-first century. Acknowledged experts on specific topics seek to explore the layered domestic and international, political, legal and moral aspects of this uniquely influential and controversial event. Contributors are: Rory O' Dwyer, Michael Wheatley, Brendan O'Shea and Gerry White, D.G. Boyce, Francis M. Carroll, Rosemary Cullen Owens, Jérôme aan de Wiel, Adrian Hardiman, Keith Jeffery, Mary McAleese, Owen McGee, Seamus Murphy and Brian P. Murphy.
Download or read book We Bled Together written by Dominic Price and published by Gill & Macmillan Ltd. This book was released on 2017-11-10 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no crime in detecting and destroying in wartime the spy and informer...I have paid them back in their own coin. - Michael CollinsMichael Collins' development of a formidable intelligence network transformed, for the first time in history, the military fortunes of the Irish against the British. The Dublin Brigade of the IRA was pivotal to this defining strategy. In 1919, Collins formed members of the brigade into two Special Duties Units. They eventually joined to form his 'Squad' of assassins tasked with immobilising British intelligence. Eyewitness testimonies and war diaries lend immediacy and insight to this thrilling account of the daring espionage and killings carried out by both sides on Dublin's streets. Dominic Price reveals how the IRA developed Improvised Explosive Devices, and experimented with chemical weapons in the form of poison gas and infecting water supplies.When the Civil War erupted, the devotion of a significant cohort of the Dublin Brigade to Collins, forged during the darkest of days, was unbreakable. Many of them, identified here for the first time, formed the backbone of the Free State in key intelligence and military roles. While not shying away from the revulsions of the Civil War, neither does Price abandon the brigade's story at its conclusion. As well as revealing the disenchantment of some, who took part in the 1924 army mutiny, he exposes the personal horrors that awaited in peacetime, when psychological trauma was common. This is the stirring and poignant story of the human endeavour and suffering at the core of the Dublin Brigade's fight for Irish freedom.
Book Synopsis Cork: A Potted History by : Kieran McCarthy
Download or read book Cork: A Potted History written by Kieran McCarthy and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2024-04-15 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible history of Cork from its beginnings to the present day, following a walking trail highlighting the city’s significant events and people.
Book Synopsis Ruairí Ó Brádaigh by : Robert W. White
Download or read book Ruairí Ó Brádaigh written by Robert W. White and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2006-02-28 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the mid-1950s, Ruairí Ó Bradáigh has played a singular role in the Irish Republican Movement. He is the only person who has served as chief of staff of the Irish Republican Army, as president of the political party Sinn Féin, and to have been elected, as an abstentionist, to the Dublin parliament. Today, he is the most prominent and articulate spokesperson of those Irish Republicans who reject the peace process in Northern Ireland. His rejection is rooted in his analysis of Irish history and his belief that the peace process will not achieve peace. Instead it will support the continued partition of Ireland and result in continued, inevitable, conflict. The child of Irish Republican veterans, Ó Bradáigh has led IRA raids, been arrested and interned, escaped and been "on the run," and even spent a period of time on a hunger strike. An articulate spokesman for the Irish Republican cause, he has at different times been excluded from Northern Ireland, Britain, the United States, and Canada. He was a key figure in the secret negotiation of a bilateral IRA-British truce. His "Notes" on these negotiations offer special insight to the 1975 truce, the IRA cease-fires of the 1990s, and the current peace process in Ireland. Ó Bradáigh has been a staunch defender of the traditional Republican position of abstention from participation in the parliaments in Dublin, Belfast, and Westminster. When Sinn Féin voted to recognize these parliaments in 1970, he led the walkout of the party convention and spearheaded the creation of Provisional Sinn Féin. He served as president of Provisional Sinn Féin until 1983, when he was forced from the position by his successor, Gerry Adams. In 1986, with Adams as its president, Provisional Sinn Féin recognized the Dublin parliament. Ó Bradáigh led another walkout and later became president of Republican Sinn Féin, a position he still holds.
Book Synopsis Gaelic Prose in the Irish Free State by : Philip O'Leary
Download or read book Gaelic Prose in the Irish Free State written by Philip O'Leary and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an authoritative account of the a major, but neglected aspect of the Irish cultural renaissance- prose literature of the Gaelic Revival. The period following the War of Independence and Civil War saw an outpouring of book-length works in Irish from the state publishing agency An Gum. The frequency and production of new plays, both original and translated, have never been approached since. This book investigates all of these works as well as journalism and manuscript material and discusses them in a lively and often humorous manner. -- Publisher description
