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:
Download or read book Achill Painters written by Mary J. Murphy and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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:
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.
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:
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.
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.
Download or read book Old Ireland in Colour 2 written by John Breslin and published by Merrion Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 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:
Download or read book The Preacher and the Prelate written by Patricia Byrne and published by Merrion Press. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the extraordinary story of an audacious fight for souls on famine ravaged Achill Island in the nineteenth century. Religious ferment swept Ireland in the early 1800s and evangelical Protestant clergyman Edward Nangle set out to lift the destitute people of Achill out of degradation and idolatry through his Achill Mission Colony. The fury of the island elements, the devastation of famine, and Nangle’s own volatile temperament all threatened the project’s survival. In the years of the Great Famine the ugly charge of ‘souperism’, offering food and material benefits in return for religious conversion, tainted the Achill Mission’s work. John MacHale, powerful Archbishop of Tuam, spearheaded the Catholic Church’s fightback against Nangle’s Protestant colony, with the two clergymen unleashing fierce passions while spewing vitriol and polemic from pen and pulpit. Did Edward Nangle and the Achill Mission Colony save hundreds from certain death, or did they shamefully exploit a vulnerable people for religious conversion? This dramatic tale of the Achill Mission Colony exposes the fault-lines of religion, society and politics in nineteenth century Ireland, and continues to excite controversy and division to this day.
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.
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.
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.
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:
Download or read book Rails to Achill written by Jonathan Beaumont and published by Locomotion Papers. This book was released on 2002 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Little Bit of Ireland written by John Finan and published by . This book was released on 2008-07-10 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The widow lady and the shoemaker are true characters with a fictional storyline. The Bog holds a lot of facts about nature. It is full of wildlife and heritage.
