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Author : Matthias McDonnell Bodkin
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Famous Irish Trials written by Matthias McDonnell Bodkin and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joseph McArdle
Publisher : Gill & Macmillan Ltd
ISBN 13 : 0717168050
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (171 download)
Download or read book Irish Rogues and Rascals – From Francis Shackleton to Charlie Haughey written by Joseph McArdle and published by Gill & Macmillan Ltd. This book was released on 2007-10-16 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Irish history is littered with rogues, larger-than-life characters who range from cheeky scamps to vicious chancers. In Irish Rogues and Rascals, Joseph MacArdle looks at some of the most notorious Irishmen to find out just exactly what a 'rogue' is. Is it a dastardly knave, a cheeky rascal or a devilish trickster? Is it a lovable scamp or is it someone who is charming and delightful but with a bit of mischievousness and sauciness thrown into the mix as well? Whatever the answer, the fascinating collection of Irish rogues in Joseph McArdle's hilarious book Irish Rogues and Rascals embraces vicious chancers at one extreme and lovable imps at the other. These Irish rogues and rascals range from Myler Magrath, a sixteenth-century character who loved wine, women and money – and who was both Catholic Bishop of Down and Connor and Protestant Archbishop of Cashel at the same time through to Tiger Roche, the infamous eighteenth-century rake and duellist who drank and fought his way from Ireland to Cape Town. They include more modern figures such as Paul Singer, a fraudster who tricked countless people out of their hard-earned money in the 1950s, and Des Traynor, the mastermind of Irish tax evasion schemes for much of the late twentieth century , and not forgetting the most accomplished political rogue of modern times, Charles J. Haughey. Joseph McArdle writes with affection about his colourful rogues, usually seeing more to admire in their cleverness and brazenness than to deplore in the results of their conduct. His rogues may not always be honourable – but they usually are fun and their stories make compelling reading. Irish Rogues and Rascals: Table of Contents Preface - The spinning bishop: Myler Magrath - Eighteenth-century rogues: Garrett Byrne, James Strange, John M'Naghtan - Fighting Fitzgerald: George Robert Fitzgerald - This wicked prelate: Frederick Hervey, Bishop of Derry - Tiger Roche and the giant wheel - The jewels in the crowns: Colonel Blood and Francis Shackleton - The Sinn Fein irreconcilable: Robert Erskine Childers - Speak some good of the dead: John DeLorean - The deadly charmer: James H. Lehman - The man with the golden touch: Paul Singer - Tear him for his bad verses: Francis Stuart - The tribunal rogues: Charles Haughey, Des Traynor, Patrick Gallagher, Ray Burke, Liam Lawlor
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 630 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Irish quarterly review.
Author : J.C. Beckett
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571280897
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (712 download)
Download or read book The Making of Modern Ireland 1603-1923 written by J.C. Beckett and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2011-11-03 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Technically this book is a masterly achievement: the collection, sorting, selecting and balancing of material has meant an immense amount of hard and highly skilful work. The presentation is not only learned but cool, objective, unimpassioned and yet almost always alive and compassionate as well . . . As a reference book alone it is immensely valuable . . . As an example of a humane, scholarly, expert history, Professor Beckett's book will be difficult to surpass.' D. B. Quinn, Belfast Telegraph '[He] has brilliantly succeeded. The book is admirably constructed and written with clarity and economy which carry the narrative unflaggingly through to the end . . . This excellent book supersedes all previous histories of modern Ireland.' F. S. L. Lyons, New Statesman
Author : Christopher Sandford
Publisher : Thomas Dunne Books
ISBN 13 : 125007956X
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The Man Who Would Be Sherlock written by Christopher Sandford and published by Thomas Dunne Books. This book was released on 2018-12-04 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A world-famous biographer reveals the strange relationship between Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's real life and that of Sherlock Holmes in the engrossing The Man Who Would Be Sherlock. Though best known for the fictional cases of his creation Sherlock Holmes, Conan Doyle was involved in dozens of real life cases, solving many, and zealously campaigning for justice in all. Stanford thoroughly and convincingly makes the case that the details of the many events Doyle was involved in, and caricatures of those involved, would provide Conan Doyle the fodder for many of the adventures of the violin-playing detective. There can be few (if any) literary creations who have found such a consistent yet evolving independent life as Holmes. He is a paradigm that can be endlessly changed yet always maintains an underlying consistent identity, both drug addict and perfect example of the analytic mind, and as Christopher Sandford demonstrates so clearly, in many of these respects he mirrors his creator.
Author : Daniel O'Connell
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 702 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Shaw's Authenticated Report of the Irish State Trials, 1844 written by Daniel O'Connell and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John O'Donovan
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book 1589-1616. Appendix [pedigrees and histories of famous Irish families written by John O'Donovan and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sean Duffy
Publisher : Gill & Macmillan Ltd
ISBN 13 : 0717157768
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (171 download)
Download or read book Brian Boru and the Battle of Clontarf written by Sean Duffy and published by Gill & Macmillan Ltd. This book was released on 2013-10-11 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brian Boru is the most famous Irish person before the modern era, whose death at the Battle of Clontarf in 1014 is one of the few events in the whole of Ireland's medieval history to retain a place in the popular imagination. Once, we were told that Brian, the great Christian king, gave his life in a battle on Good Friday against pagan Viking enemies whose defeat banished them from Ireland forever. More recent interpretations of the Battle of Clontarf have played down the role of the Vikings and portrayed it as merely the final act in a rebellion against Brian, the king of Munster, by his enemies in Leinster and Dublin. This book proposes a far-reaching reassessment of Brian Boru and Clontarf. By examining Brian's family history and tracing his career from its earliest days, it uncovers the origins of Brian's greatness and explains precisely how he changed Irish political life forever. Brian Boru and the Battle of Clontarf offers a new interpretation of the role of the Vikings in Irish affairs and explains how Brian emerged from obscurity to attain the high-kingship of Ireland because of his exploitation of the Viking presence. And it concludes that Clontarf was deemed a triumph, despite Brian's death, because of what he averted – a major new Viking offensive in Ireland – on that fateful day.
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Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Irish Historical Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. 1- include the sections: Writings on Irish history, 1936- ; Research on Irish history in Irish universities (varies slightly) 1937/38-
Author : Síobhra Aiken
Publisher : Merrion Press
ISBN 13 : 9781788551663
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (516 download)
Download or read book Spiritual Wounds written by Síobhra Aiken and published by Merrion Press. This book was released on 2022-02 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book challenges the widespread scholarly and popular belief that the Irish Civil War (1922-1923) was followed by a 'traumatic silence.' It achieves this by revealing an alternative archive of published testimonies which were largely recorded in the 1920s and 1930s. These testimonies were written by pro- and anti-treaty men and women, in both English and Irish, and nearly all have eluded sustained scholarly attention to date. However, the act of smuggling private, painful experience into the public realm, especially when it challenged official memory making, demanded the cautious deployment of self-protective narrative strategies. As a result, many testimonies from the Irish Civil War emerge in non-conventional, hybridised, and fictionalised forms of life writing. This book re-introduces a number of these testimonies into public debate. It considers contemporary understandings of mental illness and how a number of veterans--both men and women--self-consciously engaged in projects of therapeutic writing as a means to 'heal' the 'spiritual wounds' of civil war. It also outlines the prevalence of literary representations of revolutionary sexual violence, challenging the assumptio
Author : Miachael Sherridan
Publisher : Poolbeg Press Ltd
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Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Murder at Ireland's Eye written by Miachael Sherridan and published by Poolbeg Press Ltd. This book was released on 2016-05-17 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a fine calm morning in September 1852, a strikingly handsome man and his beautiful wife stepped onto a hired boat in Howth Harbour, Dublin, to set out on a day trip. The destination was Ireland’s Eye, a small uninhabited island less than a mile to the north of the harbour. He was an artist, she a keen and adventurous swimmer. By sunset, when the boat returned to fetch them, she would be dead. Despite certain gruesome features, the inquest ruled that it was a drowning, and Maria Kirwan was laid to rest. Then a startling secret emerged about the private life of her husband, the artist William Burke Kirwan. After an exhumation, he was arrested for her murder. The case caused a sensation, the public fascinated by its extraordinary elements. Added to this and almost eclipsing the murder was the scandal: a sexual triangle that aroused the full force of Victorian moral outrage. The trial was destined to become steeped in controversy and a veil of mystery has hung over the death of Maria Kirwan for the last 160 years. But now, at last, a forgotten medical paper has thrown light on what really happened on that fateful day.
Author : Henry SHAW (Stationer.)
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Total Pages : 704 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Shaw's Authenticated Report of the Irish State Trials. 1844 written by Henry SHAW (Stationer.) and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sean Sheehan
Publisher : Evans Brothers
ISBN 13 : 0237534320
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (375 download)
Download or read book Famous Irish Men and Women written by Sean Sheehan and published by Evans Brothers. This book was released on 2008-03 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The titles in this series focus on important events in Irish history and on exploring Ireland’s geography. The questions posed are designed to develop children’s historical skills by asking them to question how information can be interpreted in different ways and why historians may disagree. The engaging and informative text is divided into easily digestible paragraphs with key words highlighted. Questions ask the reader to search for visual clues and identify differences and similarities between different periods. Photographs, maps, and diagrams are provided along with suggested activities for individuals, groups, and classes; a full glossary and index; and extensive notes for teachers and parents.
Author : John O'Donovan
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Annala Rioghachta Eireann: 1589-1616. Appendix [pedigrees and histories of famous Irish families written by John O'Donovan and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paige Reynolds
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108677169
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (86 download)
Download or read book The New Irish Studies written by Paige Reynolds and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-24 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New Irish Studies demonstrates how diverse critical approaches enable a richer understanding of contemporary Irish writing and culture. The early decades of the twenty-first century in Ireland and Northern Ireland have seen an astonishing rate of change, one that reflects the common understanding of the contemporary as a moment of acceleration and flux. This collection tracks how Irish writers have represented the peace and reconciliation process in Northern Ireland, the consequences of the Celtic Tiger economic boom in the Republic, the waning influence of Catholicism, the increased authority of diverse voices, and an altered relationship with Europe. The essays acknowledge the distinctiveness of contemporary Irish literature, reflecting a sense that the local can shed light on the global, even as they reach beyond the limited tropes that have long identified Irish literature. The collection suggests routes forward for Irish Studies, and unsettles presumptions about what constitutes an Irish classic.
Author : E.H. Mikhail
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349051152
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (49 download)
Download or read book Brendan Behan written by E.H. Mikhail and published by Springer. This book was released on 1980-06-18 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robin Odell
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752471287
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)
Download or read book Murderers' Row written by Robin Odell and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-10-30 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Criminoloogist Robin Odell has compiled this gruesome gallery of cases from all over the world, revealing the growth in serial slayings, contract killings and middle-class murders and investigating what motivates people to commit the ultimate crime. As well as gangsters and ordinary felons, the book includes doctors, millionaries, housewives, children, lawyers, accountants, officers and gentlemen who have succumbed to the killing instinct. Behind the sensational names concocted by the tabloid press - 'Boston Strangler', 'Dracula Killer', 'Night Stalker', 'Granny Killer' - lurk real murderers committing acts of violence in circumstances often more bizarre than fiction. Arranged in an easy-to-use A-Z format, the book contains over 500 cases from serial killers such as Dennis Nilsen and Ted Bundy, to those such as Jeremy Bamber and Steven Benson who dispatched their parents for money; from murderous New Zealand teenagers whose story made a successful film, to the many doctors and nurses who took life instead of saving it; from unsolved murders such as the murder of Little Gregory in France to the paid assignments of John Waynes Hearn, a Vietnam veteran who killed to order. The result is a classic of true crime, a definitive work on murder as a worldwide phenomenon.
