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Book Grounded in Eire

Download or read book Grounded in Eire written by Ralph Keefer and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2001 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of two RAF fliers interned in Ireland during World War II.

Book Grounded in Eire

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ralph Keefer
  • Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
  • Release : 2001-10-09
  • ISBN : 0773564462
  • Pages : 276 pages

Download or read book Grounded in Eire written by Ralph Keefer and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2001-10-09 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After an unusual interrogation at the hands of the Local Defence Force in County Clare, Keefer and Calder were transferred to a makeshift prison camp in County Kildare B right next to a similar camp for German prisoners. There they found themselves subject to a surreal honour system that allowed them daily parole away from their internment camp, free to golf or cycle across the broad plains of the Curragh without any supervision. This system forbid escape attempts when they were on parole but bound them, as RAF officers, to attempt to escape upon their return to camp. A colourful and often amusing record of events, Grounded in Eire offers insight into this little-known aspect of the war and provides a testament to courage, friendship, and perseverance in the face of unusual obstacles.

Book Military Internees  Prisoners of War and the Irish State during the Second World War

Download or read book Military Internees Prisoners of War and the Irish State during the Second World War written by B. Kelly and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-04-29 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1939 and 1945, over two hundred German and forty-five Allied servicemen were interned in neutral Ireland. They presented a series of extremely complex issues for the de Valera government, which strove to balance Ireland's international relationships with its obligations as a neutral.

Book Ireland  Neutrality and European Security Integration

Download or read book Ireland Neutrality and European Security Integration written by Róisín Doherty and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2002: Roisin Doherty provides an innovative insight into European security policy by concentrating on Ireland through an analysis of compatibility of Irish neutrality with security integration. She also analyzes the factors influencing security integration. This contemporary analysis of neutrality also deals with the development of the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) and examines the factors pushing forward the development of EU security policy. A specialized text suitable for undergraduate and post-graduate courses in international relations, European studies and administrative studies, this stimulating volume will appeal to those interested in the European Union, Irish foreign policy, neutrality and the CFSP in general.

Book Foreign Relations of the United States

Download or read book Foreign Relations of the United States written by United States. Department of State and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 1038 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Digest of International Law

Download or read book Digest of International Law written by Marjorie Millace Whiteman and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 1042 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book That Neutral Island

    Book Details:
  • Author : Clair Wills
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 9780674026827
  • Pages : 518 pages

Download or read book That Neutral Island written by Clair Wills and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where previous histories of Ireland in the war years have focused on high politics, That Neutral Island mines deeper layers of experience. Stories, letters, and diaries illuminate this small country as it suffered rationing, censorship, the threat of invasion, and a strange detachment from the war.

Book A History of Irish Modernism

Download or read book A History of Irish Modernism written by Gregory Castle and published by . This book was released on 2019-01-24 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book attests to the unique development of modernism in Ireland - driven by political as well as artistic concerns.

Book Representing the National Landscape in Irish Romanticism

Download or read book Representing the National Landscape in Irish Romanticism written by Julia M. Wright and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-22 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ireland is a country which has come to be defined in part by an ideology which conflates nationalism with the land. From the Irish Revival’s celebration of the Irish peasant farmer as the ideal Irishman to the fierce history of land claim battles between the Irish and their colonizers, notions of the land have become particularly bound up with conceptions of what Ireland is and what it is to be Irish. In this book, Wright considers this fraught relationship between land and national identity in Irish literature. In doing so, she presents a new vision of the Irish national landscape as one that is vitally connected to larger geographical spheres. By exploring issues of globalization, international radicalism, trade routes, and the export of natural resources, Wright is at the cutting edge of modern global scholarly trends and concerns. In considering texts from the Romantic era such as Leslie’s Killarney, Edgeworth’s “Limerick Gloves,” and Moore’s Irish Melodies, Wright undercuts the nationalist myth of a “people of the soil” using the very texts which helped to construct this myth. Reigniting the field of Irish Romanticism, Wright presents original readings which call into question politically motivated mythologies while energizing nationalist conceptions that reflect transnational networks and mobility.

Book Reading the Ground

    Book Details:
  • Author : Brian John
  • Publisher : CUA Press
  • Release : 1996
  • ISBN : 9780813208381
  • Pages : 292 pages

Download or read book Reading the Ground written by Brian John and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this comprehensive study of Thomas Kinsella's poetry, Brian John explores the poet's development within both the Irish and the English contexts and defines the nature of his poetic achievement. He also offers a new reading of Kinsella's evolving relationship to one of his major literary forebears, W. B. Yeats. What becomes clear is the formidable accomplishment of a poet, now writing at the height of his powers, whose substantial body of work warrants comparison with the grand masters of twentieth-century literature in English - with Yeats, Joyce, and Beckett.

Book Ground Penetrating Radar in Sediments

Download or read book Ground Penetrating Radar in Sediments written by C. S. Bristow and published by Geological Society of London. This book was released on 2003 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Included in this book are practical guidelines for data collection and interpretation, from antennae configurations to sequence stratigraphy, together with new advances such as vertical radar profiles and 3-D GPR imaging for hydrocarbon reservoir modelling, designed to assist new and veteran users get the most from GPR. Case studies in this book detail GPR investigations in a wide array of sedimentary environments including alluvial fans, braided rivers, spits, beaches, sand dunes, lakes, bogs, and floodplains.

Book Gaining Ground

    Book Details:
  • Author : Rachel Claire Morris
  • Publisher : Univ of Hertfordshire Press
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN : 9780900458989
  • Pages : 184 pages

Download or read book Gaining Ground written by Rachel Claire Morris and published by Univ of Hertfordshire Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An agenda for reform in the law, policy & practice relating to Travelling people in the areas of education, accommodation & site provision, health, social & other services, planning, eviction & criminal justice and is based on the recommendations of several specialist working parties & two major conferences. Part two, Voices for reform, includes contributions by some of the best known names & organisations active in the field. The Introduction is by Lord Avebury.

Book Ireland  a Bicycle  and a Tin Whistle

Download or read book Ireland a Bicycle and a Tin Whistle written by David A. Wilson and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1995-03-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As he travels through the North, Wilson gets beneath the political surface to portray both the tragedy and comedy of everyday life in the Protestant and Catholic communities. Aware of the polarized image that each side has of the other, he emphasizes the importance of finding common ground and of asserting the middle against the extremes. Just as traditional Irish music is characterized by ornamentations and elaborations on a melodic theme, Ireland, a Bicycle, and a Tin Whistle is full of variations and wanderings on the theme of the trip itself. And just as traditional Irish musicians will follow a sad slow air with a lively foot-tapping reel, Wilson's mood ranges from the nostalgic and reflective to the irreverent and mischievous. If there is a lament in one ear, there is a song in the other.

Book Daughter of Ireland

    Book Details:
  • Author : Juilene Osborne-McKnight
  • Publisher : Forge Books
  • Release : 2003-03-14
  • ISBN : 1466823518
  • Pages : 378 pages

Download or read book Daughter of Ireland written by Juilene Osborne-McKnight and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2003-03-14 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I am the wind which breathes on the water. I am the swell of the sea. I am the light of the sun. I am the point of the battle spear. I am the God who gives fires to the mind. Who announces the ages of the moon? Who speaks to the setting of the sun? I, only I. Aislinn ni Sorar, druid priestess of ancient Ireland, is a visionary. Raised according to the ancient ways and seeking to use her gifts to keep the old magic strong, she has the power to part the mists of time and see events that might shape a nation. But Aislinn's own past is shrouded in mystery, and her quest to discover that past will bring her pain, as well as true love, and will set in motion a chain of events that will alter both her own future and that of her beloved Ireland. For there is a new spirit upon the land whose presence heralds a rendering--and a remaking--of this world. His way had been foretold long ago and threatens to change everything. And Aislinn is at the heart of that change. Will she give up everything that she loves to help her people find the true God, or will she turn to the dark forces that threaten to keep the old ways at any cost? Daughter of Ireland continues Juilene Osborne-McKnight's exploration of Irish history, combining fine historical research with skillful storytelling. Her focus this time is none other than Cormac mac Art, ancient and venerated King of Ireland, and the path the Irish people follow to find the one true God. Osborne-McKnight has crafted an engaging young heroine who chronicles both Celtic mythology and early pagan/Christian theology through her travels, and re-creates a world whose conflicts over power, religion, and law are as immediate and far-reaching as those same conflicts in our own time. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Book Seamus Heaney

Download or read book Seamus Heaney written by M. Parker and published by Springer. This book was released on 1994-10-12 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an account of Seamus Heaney's early life, and the experiences, influences and relationships - personal, literary and political - that shaped his poetic development. The book includes photographs, interviews and commentary on unpublished poems and drafts.

Book Seamus Heaney

Download or read book Seamus Heaney written by Michael Parker and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the nearly thirty years of his writing career the Irish poet Seamus Heaney has established himself as an enduring world writer. This book provides the fullest account yet of his early life as an Ulster Catholic and the experiences, influences, and relationships - personal, literary, and political - that shaped his poetic development and awareness in the midst of the complex and violent history that has formed modern Ireland. Michael Parker's extensive research includes a considerable amount of original material, such as photographs and interviews with Heaney and with many key personalities from his past and present. Parker presents fresh insights into the background and possible sources of Heaney's poems, commentaries on unpublished poems and drafts, and careful readings of each of the poet's collections up to and including the 1991 Seeing Things.