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Download or read book North West Ulster written by Alistair Rowan and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1979-01-01 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The remote, rugged, rough country of North West Ulster possesses buildings as varied as its landscape. Monuments of the Celtic church - sculptured cross-slabs, high crosses and round towers - and medieval tower houses survive from its earliest centuries. Fortified houses from the Plantation period are succeeded by Georgian mansions, and the richly varied urban and rural buildings of the Victorian period. In its churches both Protestant and Catholic, North West Ulster shows itself no less diverse.

Download or read book The Catholics Of Ulster written by Marianne Elliott and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2002-02-21 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few European communities are more soaked in their bloody history than the Catholics of Ulster, but the Catholic and Protestant communities' faulty understanding of their past has had ruinous effects on the lives of its inhabitants. Marianne Elliott has written a coherent, credible, and absorbing history of the Ulster Catholics. The whole sorry sweep of the province's history is covered-from its early medieval origins to the tenuous but holding Good Friday Agreement of 1998 and formation of an all-Ulster legislature.

Download or read book The Oxford Companion to Irish History written by S.J. Connolly and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2011-02-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a field riven by controversy, the Oxford Companion to Irish History is a comprehensive and balanced source of information on the history of this complex and fascinating country. Written by a team of almost 100 experts, the Companion's 1,800 A-Z entries explore Irish history from earliest times to the beginning of the 21st century.

Download or read book Ancient Monuments of Inishowen North Donegal written by Seán Beattie and published by Lighthouse Publications (IE). This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The County Donegal Railways written by E. M. Patterson and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New edition of Dr Patterson's history of the narrow-gauge County Donegal Railway. This edition adds interviews with workers and others who had contact with the railway, a chapter on the railway today as much can still be seen of the former network, and some additional Glover drawings of locomotive, carriage and wagon stock.

Download or read book The Encyclopaedia of Ireland written by Brian Lalor and published by Gill. This book was released on 2003 with total page 1272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopaedia of Ireland contains a full A-Z listing of over 5500 articles on all things Irish, past and present, written by experts in the various fields. All the text has been specially commissioned and written for the Encyclopaedia. From the Mesolithic Age to the 21st century, this reference covers subjects as diverse as: biography, education, art and architecture, topography, sport, literature, history and politics, military, commerce and law, folklore, natural history, science, religion, transport, engineering, diet, food and drink, music and many more.

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Download or read book Battle for the Body written by Harvestime International Network and published by Harvestime International Institute. This book was released on 2012-08-16 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of all the Bible teaches about divine healing.

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Download or read book A Cave of Candles written by Dorothy V. Corson and published by Evangel Author Services. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Cave of Candles tells the history of Our Lady's influence on the Notre Dame campus from Father Sorin's arrival in the new world to the building of the Grotto and the evolution of the Spirit of Notre Dame as we know it today. Along the way we are treated to fascinating legend and lore like the mystery of the missing Empress Eugenie crown and the legend of the sycamore and to many rare, historical images and colorful contemporary photographs of the campus. The book also describes the filming of The Song of Bernadette movie, written by screenwriter George Seaton, a South Bend boy, whose brother was a Notre Dame alumnus.