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Author : Hugh Oram
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781840335965
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (359 download)
Download or read book Old Achill Island written by Hugh Oram and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jonathan Beaumont
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780853616313
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (163 download)
Download or read book Achillbeg written by Jonathan Beaumont and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Patricia Byrne
Publisher : Gill & Macmillan Ltd
ISBN 13 : 184889953X
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (488 download)
Download or read book The Veiled Woman of Achill written by Patricia Byrne and published by Gill & Macmillan Ltd. This book was released on 2012-04-07 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At Valley House on Achill Island in 1894, an English landowner, Agnes MacDonnell, was brutally attacked and her home burnt. James Lynchehaun, her former land agent, was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment. He escaped twice and won a groundbreaking case in the United States successfully resisting extradition. . A Franciscan monk in Achill, Brother Paul Carney, who had befriended and assisted Lynchehaun, wrote up the fugitive's story, and Lynchehaun became a folk hero. John Millington Synge visited Mayo in 1904/1905 and decided to locate The Playboy of the Western World in north Mayo. Lynchehaun was one of Synge's inspirations for constructing the character of Christy Mahon. The crime, the trial and escapes, and the island tensions are unravelled in a gripping account.
Author : John F. Deane
Publisher : Currach Books
ISBN 13 : 9781782188995
Total Pages : 49 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (889 download)
Download or read book Achill written by John F. Deane and published by Currach Books. This book was released on 2018 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This special publication presents an in-depth awareness of Achill Ireland in Ireland, combining poems and paintings from two acknowledged masters in their individual arts.
Author : Martina Murphy
Publisher : Constable
ISBN 13 : 9780349134963
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)
Download or read book The Night Caller written by Martina Murphy and published by Constable. This book was released on 2022-01-13 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Asenath Nicholson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Annals of the Famine in Ireland, in 1847, 1848, and 1849 written by Asenath Nicholson and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wallace Clark
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 9781900935319
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (353 download)
Download or read book Donegal Islands written by Wallace Clark and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2003 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kevin Toolis
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 0306921456
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (69 download)
Download or read book My Father's Wake written by Kevin Toolis and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2018-02-27 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intimate, lyrical look at the ancient rite of the Irish wake--and the Irish way of overcoming our fear of death Death is a whisper for most of us. Instinctively we feel we should dim the lights, pull the curtains, and speak softly. But on a remote island off the coast of Ireland's County Mayo, death has a louder voice. Each day, along with reports of incoming Atlantic storms, the local radio runs a daily roll call of the recently departed. The islanders go in great numbers, young and old alike, to be with their dead. They keep vigil with the corpse and the bereaved company through the long hours of the night. They dig the grave with their own hands and carry the coffin on their own shoulders. The islanders cherish the dead--and amid the sorrow, they celebrate life, too. In My Father's Wake, acclaimed author and award-winning filmmaker Kevin Toolis unforgettably describes his own father's wake and explores the wider history and significance of this ancient and eternal Irish ritual. Perhaps we, too, can all find a better way to deal with our mortality -- by living and loving as the Irish do.
Author : John Boyle
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448110564
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (481 download)
Download or read book Galloway Street written by John Boyle and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-09-30 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Boyle was born and raised in Scotland but he could never feel Scottish. His parents were poor immigrants from the West of Ireland who came to Scotland to find work and eventually settled in Paisley, where John was the first of six children. Galloway Street beautifully captures the poverty and the rough humour of the family's life in the Paisley tenements, the songs and stories of their Irish Catholic relatives and the often uneasy relationships with their Scottish Protestant neighbours. It also shows how the boy is marked at the age of ten by an extended stay with his spinster aunt on the remote island of Achill, as he begins to understand the life his parents left behind. This is a book about exile and belonging, about the poignancy of growing up Irish in Scotland, so close to the place your mother still calls home. It is a truthful, funny and moving evocation of a unique place and time, experienced through the eyes of a child.
Author : Gisela Holfter
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443832669
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Heinrich Böll and Ireland written by Gisela Holfter and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2011-07-12 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nobel Prize winning author Heinrich Böll’s Irisches Tagebuch (Irish Journal) which was first published in 1957, has been read by millions of German readers and has had an unsurpassed impact on the German image of Ireland. But there is much more to Heinrich Böll’s relationship with Ireland than the Irisches Tagebuch. In this new book, Böll scholar Gisela Holfter carefully charts Heinrich Böll’s personal and literary connections with Ireland and Irish literature from his reading Irish fairytales in early childhood, to establishing a second home on Achill Island and his and his wife Annemarie’s translations of numerous books by Irish authors such as Brendan Behan, J. M. Synge, G. B. Shaw, Flann O’Brien and Tomás O’Crohan. This book also examines the response in Ireland to Böll’s works, notably the controversy that ensued following the broadcast of his film Irland und seine Kinder (Children of Eire) in the 1960s. Heinrich Böll and Ireland offers new insights for students, academics and the general reader alike.
Author : Hugh Oram
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781840335972
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (359 download)
Download or read book Old County Monaghan written by Hugh Oram and published by . This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This illustrated history covers communities in County Monaghan, large and small, including Monaghan itself, Ballybay, Carrickmacross, Castleblayney, Clones, Drum, Emyvale, Glaslough, Killeevan, Newbliss, Rockcorry, Scotstown and Smithboro'. Informative text accompanies this collection of 179 old photographs.
Author : Manchán Magan
Publisher : Bonnier Books UK
ISBN 13 : 1804184047
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Thirty-Two Words for Field written by Manchán Magan and published by Bonnier Books UK. This book was released on 2024-02-29 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rediscover the lost words of an ancient land in this new and updated edition of an international bestseller. Most people associate Britain and Ireland with the English language, a vast, sprawling linguistic tree with roots in Latin, French, and German, and branches spanning the world, from Australia and India to North America. But the inhabitants of these islands originally spoke another tongue. Look closely enough and English contains traces of the Celtic soil from which it sprung, found in words like bog, loch, cairn and crag. Today, this heritage can be found nowhere more powerfully than in modern-day Gaelic. In Thirty-Two Words for Field Manchán Magan explores the enchantment, sublime beauty and sheer oddness of a 3000-year-old lexicon. Imbuing the natural world with meaning and magic, it evokes a time-honoured way of life, from its 32 separate words for a field, to terms like loisideach (a place with a lot of kneading troughs), bróis (whiskey for a horseman at a wedding), and iarmhaireacht (the loneliness you feel when you are the only person awake at cockcrow). Told through stories collected from Magan's own life and travels, Thirty-Two Words for Field is an enthralling celebration of Irish words, and a testament to the indelible relationship between landscape, culture and language.
Author : Theresa McDonald
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780951997413
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (974 download)
Download or read book Achill Island written by Theresa McDonald and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Carney
Publisher : Poolbeg PressLtd
ISBN 13 : 9780905169828
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (698 download)
Download or read book The Playboy & the Yellow Lady written by James Carney and published by Poolbeg PressLtd. This book was released on 1986 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrew Doherty
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750995947
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)
Download or read book Waterford Harbour written by Andrew Doherty and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2020-09-30 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Waterford harbour has centuries of tradition based on its extensive fishery and maritime trade. Steeped in history, customs and an enviable spirit, it was there that Andrew Doherty was born and raised amongst a treasure chest of stories spun by the fishermen, sailors and their families. As an adult he began to research these accounts and, to his surprise, found many were based on fact. In this book, Doherty will take you on a fascinating journey along the harbour, introduce you to some of its most important sites and people, the area's history, and some of its most fantastic tales. Dreaded press gangs who raided whole communities for crew, the search for buried gold and a ship seized by pirates, the horror of a German bombing of the rural idyll during the Second World War – on every page of this incredible account you will learn something of the maritime community of Waterford Harbour.
Author : Victor Kennedy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781546718802
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (188 download)
Download or read book Kathleen Kilbane: the 'Little Saint' of Achill Island written by Victor Kennedy and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-03 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'When I was close to Kathleen I felt I was near a Saint' Bro Conway.This quote comes from Christian Brother Anselm Conway who came to know orphaned Kathleen Kilbane in a TB sanatorium in Ballinrobe, Co Mayo in 1940's Ireland.Bro Conway wrote a remarkable account of the last fifteen months of her life which is published as 'No More Tears in My Eyes'. He records Kathleen's inspiring faith and kindness to others regardless of her own personal suffering. This account continues to touch the hearts of many today.This new book contains the findings of research into the lives of both Kathleen and Bro Conway. Research that has uncovered Kathleen's real birth date and includes Kathleen's moving obituary written by Bro Conway, a forerunner to his later account. An in-depth and uplifting biography of Bro Conway is included. The book also reveals accounts of how Kathleen continues to influence people's lives today. This includes healings and other manifestations of alleged miraculous events attributed to Kathleen's intercession.
Author : Bob Kingston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780951606704
Total Pages : 85 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (67 download)
Download or read book Achill Island written by Bob Kingston and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
