Download or read book Donegal in Transition written by Seán Beattie and published by Irish Academic Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this accessible and lively book, local historian Sean Beattie explores the dramatic impact of the newly formed Congested Districts Board (CDB) on the economic, political, and cultural life of County Donegal. The starting point is the year 1891, when Arthur Balfour, as Chief Secretary, established the CDB as a regional development agency for eight western counties, including Donegal. At that time, County Donegal was recovering from the effects of the Land War and a series of bitter harvests. In an attempt to end the cycle of poverty, the CDB set out to raise living standards by promoting industrial development, investing in maritime resources, increasing agricultural output, opening up new opportunities for women through arts and crafts, introducing the concept of self-help at the local level, and breaking up large estates for the benefit of tenant farmers. Pursuing an aggressive policy of rail extension to develop communications and improve marketing, the CDB made it possible to travel by train across the county from Carndonagh to Burtonport. The most outstanding success story was the carpet manufacturing industry in south Donegal, with Killybegs Carpets being recognized as a world leader. Impressive results came from the Lace Schools in Ardara and Glenties, as well as other training initiatives. Coastal towns, such as Killybegs, became a hub of activity as new piers, boat yards, and fish-curing stations came on stream. In 1923, when the CDB closed its doors, there was a new air of optimism in the county.
Download or read book This Landscape s Fierce Embrace written by Donna L. Potts and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2013-12-05 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poet and playwright Francis Harvey, born in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, has spent most of his life in County Donegal, where he has published an extraordinary range of poetry and served as a mentor for many other poets. This book serves as a tribute to him and his literary achievement. His admirers from Ireland and around the world have collaborated in a collection that includes paintings and photographs of the Donegal landscape about which he writes so movingly, personal essays and poems celebrating his poetry, and critical essays that explore Harvey’s major themes in greater depth. Although Harvey’s poems have received critical acclaim – his poem, ‘Heron’ won the 1989 Guardian and World Wildlife Fund Poetry Competition; he was the recipient of the Peterloo Poets Prize; and went on to be elected to the prestigious affiliation of Irish artists, Aosdána – this is the long overdue first book-length critical study of his work.
Download or read book An abridged text book of British geography written by William Hughes and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Abridged Text book of British Geography Physical Political and Historical written by William HUGHES (F.R.G.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Donegal s Changing Traditions written by Eugenia Shanklin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1985. One of the notable objectives of the Library of Anthropology is to provide a vehicle for the expression in print of new, controversial, and seemingly unorthodox theoretical, methodological, and philosophical approaches to anthropological data. This is a book about traditions that are changing, not languishing in a moribund state and not dead, as other scholars have suggested, but changing to fit present circumstances. Since many people think of traditions as static or immutable, the author’s assertion that traditions are changing may strike readers as paradoxical, but this book deals with a paradoxical people, the Irish of Southwest Donegal, who simultaneously guard and manipulate their traditions: guarding them against the encroachments of the modern world and manipulating them for their own advantage in that world.
Download or read book The Geology of Ireland written by Charles Hepworth Holland and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2022-07-18 with total page 1133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Geology of Ireland is about the island of Ireland as a physical whole and includes chapters on marine geology and the history of geology in Ireland. The text is intended for professional geologists and students of geology.
Download or read book Donegal the Civil War written by Liam Ó Duibhir and published by Mercier Press Ltd. This book was released on 2011 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text is an in-depth look at the Irish Civil War in the Donegal part of the country. It tells how Donegal became the scene of the last stand up fight between the IRA and British military with the latter using heavy artillery for the first time in Ireland since 1916.
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Download or read book Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy written by Royal Irish Academy and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 1076 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes also Minutes of [the] Proceedings, and Report of [the] President and Council for the year (beginning 1965/66 called Annual report).
Download or read book Old Ireland in Colour 3 written by John Breslin and published by Merrion Press. This book was released on 2023-10-12 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Often imitated but never equalled, the Old Ireland in Colour books are beloved by Irish readers at home and abroad, and in this, the third book of the series, the authors have uncovered yet more photographic gems and breathed new life into them in glorious colour. All of Irish life is here – from evictions in Connemara to the mosgt elegant drawing rooms in Dublin. Famous faces from politics and the arts appear alongside humble labourers and farmers and impish children from all kinjds of backgrounds light up this book’s glorious pages. With endless surprising details to pore over in every picture, and captivating and illuminating text, Old Ireland in Colour 3 is a winning addition to this spectacular series of bestsellng books.
Download or read book Human Ecology and Neolithic Transition in Eastern County Donegal Ireland written by Michael J. Kimball and published by British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited. This book was released on 2000 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lough Swilly Archaeological Survey Project took place in 1995 in the far north-west corner of Northern Ireland. Its principal aim was to test for cultural continuity across the transition from foraging to farming, i.e. from the Mesolithic to the Neolithic.
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Download or read book Arcana of Science and Art Or An Annual Register of Useful Inventions and Improvements Discoveries and New Facts in Mechanics Chemistry Natural History and Social Economy written by and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abridged from the transactions of public societies and from other scientific journals.
Download or read book Arcana of Science and Art Or an Annual Register of Popular Inventions and Improvements Abridged from the Transactions of Public Societies and from the Scientific Journals British and Foreign of the Past Year written by and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Language and Dialect Contact in Ireland written by Maguire Warren Maguire and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-21 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Warren Maguire examines Mid-Ulster English as a key case of new dialect formation, considering the roles of language shift and dialect contact in its phonological development. He explores the different processes which led to the development of MUE through contact between dialects of English, Scots and Irish and examines the history of a wide range of consonantal and vocalic features. In addition to determining the phonological origins of MUE, Maguire shows us why the dialect developed in the way that it did and considers what the phonology of the dialect can tell us about the nature of contact between the input language varieties. In doing so, he demonstrates the kinds of analysis and techniques that can be used to explain the development of extra-territorial varieties of English and colonial dialects in complex situations of contact, and shows that Irish English provides a useful testing-ground for models of new dialect formation.As one of the oldest 'new' extra-territorial varieties of English, one which developed in a context of language and dialect contact, MUE provides an excellent opportunity to study how new dialects develop in situations of settlement colonisation.
