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Author : Margaret McCord
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Tower Houses and Ten Pound Castles written by Margaret McCord and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stuart Reid
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1849080453
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (49 download)
Download or read book Castles and Tower Houses of the Scottish Clans 1450–1650 written by Stuart Reid and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-09-20 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the exception of the key royal sites, such as Stirling and Edinburgh, few Scottish castles were located at strategic points, or were intended to house garrisons required to defend or subjugate towns. Instead they were primarily fortified dwelling houses, erected in an environment of weak Royal authority and endemic feuding between rival clans and groups, in both Highland and Lowland areas. Although some enceinte castles were developed during the 16th and 17th centuries, most defensive construction focused on the tower house, a distinctive vernacular style of Scottish fortification. This book examines the design, development, and purpose of these quintessentially Scottish buildings, and also covers larger sites such as Urquhart and Blackness.
Author : James Lyttleton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781846822742
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (227 download)
Download or read book Blarney Castle written by James Lyttleton and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blarney Castle, the medieval home of the MacCarthy lords of Muskerry, is one of Ireland's best-known castles. Many visitors to Ireland include a trip to the castle in their itinerary, often lining up to kiss the Blarney Stone in hope of acquiring the 'gift of the gab.' Yet despite the castle's ubiquitous image on postcards and tourist promotional literature, there is little acknowledgment of the building's historical and archaeological significance as a native lordly residence. This book brings the castle's architecture to the fore, placing it in the context of an expansive native lordship in late medieval Munster, and showing how changes in the layout and appearance of the building can be attributed to the castle's occupants, who continued to redefine their social standing and cultural identity through the Tudor reconquest and beyond.
Author : Eric Klingelhofer
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1847797733
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (477 download)
Download or read book Castles and colonists written by Eric Klingelhofer and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-19 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Castles and colonists is the first book to examine life in the leading province of Elizabeth I's nascent empire. Klinglehofer shows how an Ireland of colonising English farmers and displaced Irish 'savages' are ruled by an imported Protestant elite from their fortified manors and medieval castles. Richly illustrated, it displays how a generation of English 'adventurers' including such influential intellectual and political figures as Spenser and Ralegh, tried to create a new kind of England, one that gave full opportunity to their Renaissance tastes and ambitions. Based on decades of research, Castles and colonisers details how archaelogy had revealed the traces of a short-lived, but significant culture which has been, until now, eclipsed in ideological conflicts between Tudor queens, Hapsburg hegemony and native Irish traditions,
Author : Mike Salter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781871731514
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (315 download)
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Author : Sir Jonah Barrington
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
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Author : Mike Salter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781871731521
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (315 download)
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Author : Brinsley Macnamara
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781015403420
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (34 download)
Download or read book The Valley of the Squinting Windows written by Brinsley Macnamara and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Paul Johnson
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 0897331230
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (973 download)
Download or read book Ireland written by Paul Johnson and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2005-08-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing from a wealth of historical and scholarly sources, Johnson traces the important social, religious and political development of Ireland's struggle to become a unified, settled country. Johnson describes with accurate detail Ireland's barbarous beginnings, Oliver Cromwell's religious "crusade," the tragic Irish potato famine, the Ulster resistance and the outstanding fact of the constant British-Irish connection and the fearful toll of life it exacted. Among the anonymous multitude are famous names such as "Silken Thom" Kildare, Thomas Wentworth, Archbishop Plunkett and Lord Frederick Cavendish. And yet many great men marshaled their energies and wits to settle Ireland: Sir Henry Sidney, Sire Walter Raleigh, Edmund Spenser, Chruchill and others.
Author : Paul Johnson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000905772
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Ireland: Land of Troubles written by Paul Johnson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-21 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1980, Ireland: Land of Troubles is a fascinating and eminently readable account of Ireland’s history from the twelfth century which gives a valuable insight into her twentieth century Troubles. Ireland is a country which has produced examples of the finest flowering of Western culture but also witnessed centuries of turbulence and bloodshed. From the first establishment of an English presence around Dublin in the twelfth century, Ireland’s turbulence has been responsible for wrecking the reputations and destroying the causes of Richard II, the Earl of Essex, Charles I and James II and a host of Lords Lieutenant and Ministers, but no one could get to the heart of the ‘Irish problem.’ And the great famine and depopulation of Ireland in the nineteenth century, when four million of her people emigrated – many to America – gave a boost to Irish nationalism and the struggle for Home Rule, culminating eventually in Partition and the continuing Troubles. The author combines his account of Ireland’s history with a penetrating insight into the rise of the Anglo-Irish Establishment and the cultural and religious divides which form an integral part of his story. This book will be of interest to students of history, political science, war studies, ethno-nationalism and internal security.
Author : Peter Harrison
Publisher : Boydell Press
ISBN 13 : 9781843830665
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Castles of God written by Peter Harrison and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout history, great faiths have been subjected to persecution and attack from beyond the wall - literally walls, in Peter Harrison's remarkable book of the great monastery-fortresses, and church-fortresses, of the world.
Author : Martin Coventry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781899874569
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (745 download)
Download or read book The Castles of Scotland written by Martin Coventry and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive and most comprehensive collection on castles, towers, and fortified houses of Scotland, with historical accounts, visitor information, and maps.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
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Author : Will Ferguson
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735238170
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (352 download)
Download or read book Beyond Belfast written by Will Ferguson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-12-11 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offbeat, charming, and filled with humour and insight, Beyond Belfast is the story of one man’s misguided attempt at walking the Ulster Way, “the longest waymarked trail in the British Isles.” It’s a journey that takes Will Ferguson through the small towns and half-forgotten villages of Northern Ireland, along rugged coastlines and across barren moorland heights, past crumbling castles and patchwork farms. From IRA pubs to Protestant marches, from bandits and bad weather to banshees and blood sausage, he wades into the thick of things, providing an affectionate and heartfelt look at one of the most misunderstood corners of the world. As the grandson of a Belfast orphan, Will also peels back the myths and realities of his own family history—a mysterious photograph, rumours of a lost inheritance. The truth, when it comes, is both surprising and funny …
Author : Gregg Jennings
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1326521780
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (265 download)
Download or read book The Jennings Families 1800-1985 West Cork to New Worlds written by Gregg Jennings and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-01-02 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Gregg N. Jennings of Columbus, Georgia, U.S.A. retired in 1981 he investigated his father's ancestry. After visits to Ireland, Australia and New Zealand he collected contributions from the extended Jennings families. He co-ordinated the development of a compilation which was produced in 1985 from type-written scripts. In 2000 I produced a replication of this book in computer format which contains substantially the same information. Inaccuracies in the original version still remain. It does now contain a useful Index of Names and Places.
Author : Shirley Jackson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)
Download or read book We Have Always Lived in the Castle written by Shirley Jackson and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle that ensues when a cousin arrives at their estate.
Author : Sara Pavía
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Stone, Brick and Mortar written by Sara Pavía and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
