Download or read book Monto Feckin Monto written by Joel Amont and published by . This book was released on 2017-02-04 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The theft of the Irish Crown Jewels by a person or persons unknown in 1907 is one of the most famous and puzzling mysteries of Irish history, and has been the subject of numerous books and articles. The Jewels were worn during functions of the Order of St Patrick and were entrusted to the care of Ulster King of Arms, Ireland's chief herald and genealogist. Many and various are the theories which have been advanced over the years to explain what happened to the Jewels, with allegations that they were stolen by insiders, or by Unionist conspirators eager to derail Home Rule, or by Republican plotters seeking to embarrass the British government.The "uncrowned king" of Ireland, Charles Parnell had said 'No man shall have the right to fix the boundary to the march of a Nation.' What he couldn't say was a land with two tribes, albeit one tiny and the other immense, is not "a Nation", it is two nations, and one of them had every intention of fixing the boundary of the other one's march.The two nations opposed each other implacably, one ready to die to preserve the union with Great Britain, the other desperate to end "English" rule.These two Nations never interact. They live in separate districts, attend different churches, schools, clubs, sports, rallies, entertainments and work-places. One Nation knows it need never apply for jobs in the gift of the other, that no privilege will ever be freely granted. Should the Famine return, no help need be begged. For them, two oceans, to the West and the East, stand in the way of comfort. In Dublin they are despised for praying, pro-creating and drinking too much.In their turn, their leaders will do anything to embarrass their overlords in feared and hated Dublin Castle, and what could be more embarrassing than losing the Kings own jewels, his Crown jewels from the most protected and patrolled fortress in the Empire? Would that be the fuse that led to the eventual disbandment of the Empire and Ireland becoming "A Nation Once Again"?The first official Irish national holiday celebrates the Westminster Act of Parliament that shortened pub-hours on Saint Patrick's Day, when our story begins, in the heart of "The Castle", with the fiasco of two workmen trying in vain to get a safe into a strong-room in The Castle.Not far from there lives Daisy, a pretty, feisty, tough, strong-minded, straight-talkin' Dublin hoor. Dan is a sober, quiet, hard-working, no-nonsense delivery-man. Their tenement-room that once hosted effete soir�es now looks down on Montgomery Street, mentioned only in nervous whispers, home of every human and rat-borne disease, siren, light-house and magnet to the depraved: Monto. Worse than Hell and Purgatory combined. Given the choice, its convicted women always chose prison. No stowaway from Calcutta ever stayed long. Dan is a Volunteer in the Irish Republican Brotherhood, whose centuries-old goal still freedom from this poverty: to overthrow the power of the British Crown and set up The Republic of Ireland. The son that Daisy promised Dan turns out to be two beautiful daughters, bringing home the certainty of infant deaths if they cannot find a clean room somewhere. The rent-man has demanded all back-rent within four weeks.Outside their tenement home, Dan is bullied and attacked by a Dublin Metropolitan "Peeler". A drunken friend, a sea-captain, shoots the policeman dead. For self-preservation, the killer takes Dan at gun-point aboard his ship, to sail at once for an unknown destination, leaving Daisy alone with her new-borns.The French revolution started with an aristocrat's carriage leaving a broken-hearted mother cradling her broken child. Now a Russian �migr� foretells two more revolutions within a few years. Let this be out starting point . . .

Download or read book Midnight in Monto written by Tristan Hawke and published by Marcelo Marins Rodrigues. This book was released on 2024-07-26 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the heart of 1888 Dublin, where gaslights flicker against a backdrop of Victorian elegance, a sinister secret lurks in the shadows of the Monto red-light district. Descent into darkness. A world where nightmares become reality. A city consumed by a malevolent force. Discover a tale of survival, redemption, and the enduring power of darkness. Witness the horrifying truths hidden beneath the city's veneer of respectability. Will hope prevail over the encroaching shadows? Find out in this gripping dark fantasy. Midnight in Monto is a chilling exploration of the human spirit tested against unimaginable horrors.

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Download or read book The Book of Feckin Irish Sayings for When You Go on the Batter with a Shower of Savages written by Colin Murphy and published by Feckin' Collection. This book was released on 2023-01-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a serious study of the nuances of the English language as spoken in Ireland, this book is as useful as tits on a bull. On the other hand, if you'd like to have a baldy of understanding the various expressions you regularly hear around Ireland, you'd have to be off your face to ignore it. So stall the ball there! Whether you're a fine bit of stuff or you have a head like a lump of wet turf, this invaluable collection of Ireland's most treasured (and irreverent) sayings is definitely worth having a gander at!

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Download or read book A Dublin Student Doctor written by Patrick Taylor and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2011-10-11 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patrick Taylor's devoted readers know Doctor Fingal Flahertie O'Reilly as a pugnacious general practitioner in the quaint Irish village of Ballybucklebo. Now Taylor turns back the clock to give us a portrait of the young Fingal—and show us the pivotal events that shaped the man he would become. In the 1930s, fresh from a stint in the Royal Navy Reserve, and against the wishes of his disapproving father, Fingal O'Reilly goes to Dublin to study medicine. Fingal and his fellow aspiring doctors face the arduous demands of Trinity College and Sir Patrick Dun's Hospital. The hours are long and the cases challenging, but Fingal manages to find time to box and play rugby—and to romance a fetching, gray-eyed nurse named Kitty O'Hallorhan. Dublin is a city of slums and tenements, where brutal poverty breeds diseases that the limited medical knowledge of the time is often ill-equipped to handle. His teachers warn Fingal not to become too attached to his patients, but can he truly harden himself to the suffering he sees all around him—or can he find a way to care for his patients without breaking his heart? A Dublin Student Doctor is a moving, deeply human story that will touch longtime fans as well as readers who are meeting Doctor Fingal O'Reilly for the very first time. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Download or read book The Man Who Saw Everything written by Deborah Levy and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Longlisted for the Booker Prize Named a Best Book of the Year By: The New York Times Book Review (Notable Books of the Year) * The New York Public Library * The Washington Post * Time.com * The New York Times Critics' (Parul Seghal's Top Books of the Year) * St. Louis Post Dispatch * Apple * Publisher's Weekly An electrifying novel about beauty, envy, and carelessness from Deborah Levy, author of the Booker Prize finalists Hot Milk and Swimming Home. It is 1988 and Saul Adler, a narcissistic young historian, has been invited to Communist East Berlin to do research; in exchange, he must publish a favorable essay about the German Democratic Republic. As a gift for his translator's sister, a Beatles fanatic who will be his host, Saul's girlfriend will shoot a photograph of him standing in the crosswalk on Abbey Road, an homage to the famous album cover. As he waits for her to arrive, he is grazed by an oncoming car, which changes the trajectory of his life. The Man Who Saw Everything is about the difficulty of seeing ourselves and others clearly. It greets the specters that come back to haunt old and new love, previous and current incarnations of Europe, conscious and unconscious transgressions, and real and imagined betrayals, while investigating the cyclic nature of history and its reinvention by people in power. Here, Levy traverses the vast reaches of the human imagination while artfully blurring sexual and political binaries-feminine and masculine, East and West, past and present--to reveal the full spectrum of our world.

Download or read book Let s Pretend This Never Happened written by Jenny Lawson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-04-17 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The #1 New York Times bestselling (mostly true) memoir from the hilarious author of Furiously Happy. “Gaspingly funny and wonderfully inappropriate.”—O, The Oprah Magazine When Jenny Lawson was little, all she ever wanted was to fit in. That dream was cut short by her fantastically unbalanced father and a morbidly eccentric childhood. It did, however, open up an opportunity for Lawson to find the humor in the strange shame-spiral that is her life, and we are all the better for it. In the irreverent Let’s Pretend This Never Happened, Lawson’s long-suffering husband and sweet daughter help her uncover the surprising discovery that the most terribly human moments—the ones we want to pretend never happened—are the very same moments that make us the people we are today. For every intellectual misfit who thought they were the only ones to think the things that Lawson dares to say out loud, this is a poignant and hysterical look at the dark, disturbing, yet wonderful moments of our lives. Readers Guide Inside

Download or read book The Evening Star written by Larry McMurtry and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The earthy humor and the powerful emotional impact that set McMurtry's Terms of Endearment apart from other novels now rise to brilliant new heights with The Evening Star. McMurtry takes us deep into the heart of Texas, and deep into the heart of one of the most memorable characters of our time, Aurora Greenway—along with her family, friends, and lovers—in a tale of affectionate wit, bittersweet tenderness, and the unexpected turns that life can take. This is Larry McMurtry at his very best: warm, compassionate, full of comic invention, an author so attuned to the feelings, needs, and desires of his characters that they possess a reality unique in American fiction.

Download or read book Hey Nostradamus written by Douglas Coupland and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2009-04-03 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four people’s lives are set adrift in the wake of a high school shooting—three can’t escape the loneliness that plagues them, while a fourth races for oblivion, wondering what happened to God. Bristling with Douglas Coupland’s hallmark humor and cultural acuity, Hey Nostradamus! achieves new heights of poignancy and literary accomplishment.

Download or read book The Spy Who Saved Me written by Fiona M Marsden and published by Fidelis Ink. This book was released on 2020-08-15 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A man who has nothing to live for is saved by a woman who is Death's BFF. Today is his chance to return the favour. Five years ago, Doctor Gabe DiMello lost everything and found something he never expected. Himself. Now the woman who dragged him from the abyss is back and he has a chance to regain all he lost. Anna Khalinova’s life changed forever after her brief relationship with Gabe. Now the time has come to face the past and make a new future. To reveal the secret she's kept for five years. He saves lives, she takes them. Can they find common ground? An Award Winning Romance set in Australia between a cold-hearted female spy and a yummy doctor with a jaunt to Russia and Europe. There is a little action, in bed and out. Not really a thriller but a little bit thrilling. The spies are lightweight and the themes are heavy. Winner of the Romance Writers of Australia Emerald Pro Award 2018. CW #MeToo incidents generally off page.

Download or read book Thick as Thieves written by Peter Spiegelman and published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. This book was released on 2011-07-26 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new thriller that takes us inside a hair-raising heist, where paranoia hangs as heavy as the tropical heat, and the only law is Murphy’s. Carr—ex-CIA—is the reluctant leader of an elite crew planning a robbery of such extraordinary proportions that it will leave them all set for life. Diamonds, money-laundering, and extortion go into a timed-to-the-minute scheme that unfurls across South America, Miami, and Grand Cayman Island. Carr’s cohorts are seasoned pros, but they’re wound drum-tight: months before, the man who brought them together was killed in what Carr suspects was a setup. And there are other loose ends. Some of the intel they’re paying for is badly inaccurate, and one of the gang—lately, Carr’s lover—may have an agenda of her own. Carr finds himself “working the paranoid calculus . . . mapping the shifting landscape of who-owes-who and who-owns-who, of loyalty, grudge, and pressure”—but his biggest problems are yet to come: few of his crew are what they seem to be, and even his own past will turn out to be built on a lie. Terrifically suspenseful and psychologically complex, Thick as Thieves is a rare, penetrating look into the sophisticated machinations of an unparalleled crime, and Peter Spiegelman’s most accomplished and galvanizing novel yet.

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Download or read book Magic Spanner written by Carlton Kirby and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-06-13 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ***SHORTLISTED FOR THE TELEGRAPH SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2020 – CYCLING BOOK OF THE YEAR*** Prepare to be entertained as legendary Eurosport cycling commentator Carlton Kirby shares his tales from the road, taking you behind the scenes of the world's greatest cycle races. 'A genuine one-off with a ready wit and a killer anecdote to hand at all times' Ian Cleverly, Rouleur 'Carlton Kirby is no ordinary cycling commentator, so it is not surprising that this very entertaining book is no ordinary Grand Tour on a bicycle. A very enjoyable journey for everyone' Phil Liggett MBE, NBC Tour de France commentator 'Carlton Kirby's infectious enthusiasm, wine tips and Shakespearean joy for inventing words makes every stage of a bike race a must-watch event' Matt Butler, i newspaper With a candid authority that comes from over 25 years commentating on the world's biggest cycling races, legendary Eurosport commentator Carlton Kirby isn't afraid to tell it like it really is. Witty, outrageous and often outspoken, Magic Spanner is an insider's view of life on cycling's Grand Tours, including the Tour de France, Giro D'Italia, Vuelta a España and the classics, all delivered in the inimitable style for which Carlton has become globally famous. Peppered with hilarious anecdotes of life on the road with Tour legend Sean Kelly, Carlton gives us an expert, behind-the-scenes view – one that the average fan rarely gets to see or hear about. As well as sharing his various bugbears (including crazy spectators in mankinis to the more serious issues of rider safety), Carlton also lifts the lid on team strategies, and delves into some of cycling's more questionable ethics. Delivering a mix of expert opinion and trademark wit, Carlton covers the funny, the serious and the more bizarre moments on the professional cycling caravan. This edition also includes Carlton's guide to watching bike racing - live at the roadside.

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Download or read book Ruthless People written by J.J. McAvoy and published by NYLA. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ruthless People #1...the book that started it all...... "One Marriage + Two Bosses = 3X the Chaos." To the outside world, they look like American royalty, giving to charities, feeding the homeless, and rebuilding the city. But behind closed doors is a constant battle for dominance between two bosses, cultures, and hearts. Ruthless People is a romantic crime fiction set in modern day Chicago and follows the life and marriage of Melody Giovanni and Liam Callahan - rivals by blood and leaders through fear. Theirs is an arranged marriage with the goal of ending years of bloodshed between the Irish and the Italians. Liam assumes he's getting a simple-minded wife, one he can control, one who bends to his every need...he’ll soon find out that his wife to be does not fit that mold. Melody knows exactly what type of man Liam is and would rather die than give up the power she has spent her life earning. The mafia of the past has evolved, and with rival bosses gunning for their family, Melody and Liam will have to learn to work as one to take down those who stand in their way. Check out more thrilling titles in the Ruthless People series: RUTHLESS PEOPLE #1 "One Marriage + Two Bosses = 3X the Chaos." THE UNTOUCHABLES (#2) "One Secret, Multiple Casualties." AMERICAN SAVAGES (#3) "Villains by Choice." A BLOODY KINGDOM (#4) “After the battle, sharpen your knives.” DECLAN + CORALINE(prequel novella that takes place 2 years before Ruthless People) "You don't find love; it finds you." And look for the Ruthless People spinoff, Children of Vice--out 5.17.17“From the Ruthless, Vice shall Rise.”