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Book Spike Island s Republican Prisoners  1921

Download or read book Spike Island s Republican Prisoners 1921 written by Tom O'Neill MA and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2021-05-13 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1921, during the Irish War of Independence, the fort on Spike Island in County Cork was the largest British-military-run prison for Republican prisoners and internees in the Martial Law area, housing almost 1,400 men from Munster and south Leinster. Tom O'Neill has compiled an outstanding record of these men, using primary-source material from Irish Military Archives, British Army records, and prisoner and internee autograph books. This book includes details of arrests, charges, trials, convictions, sentences and transfers of the Republicans held on Spike Island. From the establishment of the military prison in 1921, to the escapes, hunger strikes and riots, as well as the fatal shooting by sentries of two internees that took place there, Spike Island's Republican Prisoners, 1921 is the first comprehensive history of individuals and events on the island during the Irish War of Independence. Spike Island is now a world-class tourist attraction.

Book Spike Island

    Book Details:
  • Author : Philip Hoare
  • Publisher : HarperCollins UK
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 1841152943
  • Pages : 436 pages

Download or read book Spike Island written by Philip Hoare and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2002 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Netley in Southampton - its hospital, its people and the secret history of the 20th-century now includes an afterword uncovering astonishing evidence of Netley's links with Porton Down and the experiments with LSD in the 1950s.

Book Purienne

    Book Details:
  • Author : Henrik Purienne
  • Publisher : Prestel Publishing
  • Release : 2013
  • ISBN : 9783791348278
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Purienne written by Henrik Purienne and published by Prestel Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voyeuristic, sun-drenched, and sexually charged, the photographs of Henrik Purienne offer high-fashion escapism. "What is an average day like for Henrik Purienne?" an interviewer once asked. "I wouldn't know," the South African photographer replied. Unless, of course, average can be defined as hedonistic, sun-drenched, and beachside. Draped across a vintage car or an unmade bed, rolling in the sand, or standing waist-high in an endless ocean, the subjects of Purienne's photographs convey a sexuality that's as nostalgic as it is au courant, at once innocent and sultry. The founder of Mirage magazine, Purienne always seems to have his camera pointed away from real life and toward a fantasy of beautiful girls with nothing on their minds but fun, and even less on their bodies. Paging through these stunning photographs, however, readers will appreciate Purienne's adroit staging and composition, ingenious use of light, and impeccable styling--all the skills that have made him one of today's most sought-after fashion photographers.

Book Spike and Cubby s Ice Cream Island Adventure

Download or read book Spike and Cubby s Ice Cream Island Adventure written by Heather Sellers and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-10 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two dogs, Spike and Cubby, get caught in a storm while trying to sail to their dream destination--the grand opening of Ice Cream Island.

Book Peggy Ahwesh  Vision Machines

Download or read book Peggy Ahwesh Vision Machines written by Erika Balsom and published by . This book was released on 2022-08-30 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Since the early 1980s, American artist and filmmaker Peggy Ahwesh has forged a distinctive moving image practice in the ruins of originality and authority ... Peggy Ahwesh: Vision Machines explores how she has extended and contested the paradigm of experimental cinema over the last four decades."--Page 4 of cover.

Book The Other Ida

    Book Details:
  • Author : Amy Mason
  • Publisher : Cargo Publishing
  • Release : 2014-10-24
  • ISBN : 1908885254
  • Pages : 217 pages

Download or read book The Other Ida written by Amy Mason and published by Cargo Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-24 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It was nearly the scene Ida knew was coming and her palms were sweating. Instead of fairground rides there were peeling beach huts, a small girl, shivering in her nightdress, and hundreds and hundreds of furious gulls. On-screen Ida pushed her sister into the sea, and then climbed in after her." Almost 30 and entirely irresponsible, Ida Irons returns home for her mother's funeral. It's the first time she's been back, or seen her younger sister Alice, in fourteen years. Their mother was the caustic and secretive writer Bridie Adair, who named Ida after her infamous play. While Ida has been struggling to escape its shadow, Alice has been dealing with problems of her own. Forced to confront their fractured relationship, the sisters deal with their troubling history and search for the true story behind the play, finally asking the question: what really happened to 'the other' Ida?

Book The I R A  and Its Enemies

    Book Details:
  • Author : Peter Hart
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 1999-11-18
  • ISBN : 9780198208068
  • Pages : 370 pages

Download or read book The I R A and Its Enemies written by Peter Hart and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1999-11-18 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is it like to be in the IRA - or at their mercy? This study explores the lives and deaths of the enemies and victims of the County Cork IRA between 1916 and 1923.

Book The White Book

    Book Details:
  • Author : Han Kang
  • Publisher : Hogarth
  • Release : 2019-02-19
  • ISBN : 0525573089
  • Pages : 92 pages

Download or read book The White Book written by Han Kang and published by Hogarth. This book was released on 2019-02-19 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE • A “formally daring, emotionally devastating, and deeply political” (The New York Times Book Review) exploration of personal grief through the prism of the color white, from the internationally bestselling author of The Vegetarian “Stunningly beautiful writing . . . delicate and gorgeous . . . one of the smartest reflections on what it means to remember those we’ve lost.”—NPR While on a writer’s residency, a nameless narrator focuses on the color white to creatively channel her inner pain. Through lyrical, interconnected stories, she grapples with the tragedy that has haunted her family, attempting to make sense of her older sister’s death using the color white. From trying to imagine her mother’s first time producing breast milk to watching the snow fall and meditating on the impermanence of life, she weaves a poignant, heartfelt story of the omnipresence of grief and the ways we perceive the world around us. In captivating, starkly beautiful language, The White Book offers a multilayered exploration of color and its absence, of the tenacity and fragility of the human spirit, and of our attempts to graft new life from the ashes of destruction.

Book The Stone Roses

Download or read book The Stone Roses written by Simon Spence and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2013-04-02 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Stone Roses captures the magic—and chaos—behind the UK band's rise, fall, and recent resurrection. The iconic Brit pop band The Stone Roses became an overnight sensation when their 1989 eponymous album went double platinum. It was a recording that is still often listed as one of the best albums ever made. Its chiming guitar riffs, anthemic melodies, and Smiths-like pop sensibility elevated The Stone Roses to a cult-like status in the UK and put them on the map in the U.S. But theirs is a story of unfulfilled success: their star imploded as their sophomore effort took years to complete and the band broke up acrimoniously in 1996. Sixteen years later, they reunited and have been playing sold out gigs, thrilling fans around the globe, and working on new material. In 2013, they nabbed the coveted headline spot at the Coachella Festival. With one hundred interviews of key figures, forty rare photographs, and exclusive insider material including how they created their music, The Stone Roses charts the band's rise from the backwaters of Manchester to becoming the stars of the "Madchester" scene to their successful comeback years later. Going beyond the myths to depict a band that defined Brit pop, Simon Spence illustrates their incandescent talent and jaw-dropping success while contextualizing them in the 90s music scene. This is the definitive story of The Stone Roses.

Book The Western Island

    Book Details:
  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1898
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 116 pages

Download or read book The Western Island written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Spike Island

    Book Details:
  • Author : James McClure
  • Publisher : Dell Publishing Company
  • Release : 1986
  • ISBN : 9780440381266
  • Pages : 533 pages

Download or read book Spike Island written by James McClure and published by Dell Publishing Company. This book was released on 1986 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The police personnel of a tensionridden Liverpool precinct house tell their own story and describe inner city deterioration European style in this social and psychological documentary

Book Folk

    Book Details:
  • Author : Zoe Gilbert
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2018-02-08
  • ISBN : 1408884372
  • Pages : 257 pages

Download or read book Folk written by Zoe Gilbert and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-08 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A captivating, magical and haunting debut novel of breathtaking imagination, from the winner of the 2014 Costa Short Story Award LONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 INTERNATIONAL DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 'That rare thing: genuinely unique' OBSERVER 'Will win you over ... Magical' THE TIMES 'Absolutely stunning. I loved it' MADELINE MILLER, AUTHOR OF CIRCE On the remote island of Neverness, the villagers' lives are entwined with nature: its enchantments, seductions and dangers. There is May, the young fiddler who seeks her musical spirit; Madden Lightfoot, who flies with red kites; and Verlyn Webbe, born with a wing for an arm. Over the course of a generation, their desires, gossip and heartbreak interweave to create a staggeringly original world, crackling with echoes of ancient folklore.

Book Patrick Staff  The Foundation

Download or read book Patrick Staff The Foundation written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Pond

    Book Details:
  • Author : Claire-Louise Bennett
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2016-07-12
  • ISBN : 039957591X
  • Pages : 210 pages

Download or read book Pond written by Claire-Louise Bennett and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-07-12 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A sharp, funny, and eccentric debut … Pond makes the case for Bennett as an innovative writer of real talent. … [It]reminds us that small things have great depths.”–New York Times Book Review "Dazzling…exquisitely written and daring ." –O, the Oprah Magazine Immediately upon its publication in Ireland, Claire-Louise Bennett’s debut began to attract attention well beyond the expectations of the tiny Irish press that published it. A deceptively slender volume, it captures with utterly mesmerizing virtuosity the interior reality of its unnamed protagonist, a young woman living a singular and mostly solitary existence on the outskirts of a small coastal village. Sidestepping the usual conventions of narrative, it focuses on the details of her daily experience—from the best way to eat porridge or bananas to an encounter with cows—rendered sometimes in story-length, story-like stretches of narrative, sometimes in fragments no longer than a page, but always suffused with the hypersaturated, almost synesthetic intensity of the physical world that we remember from childhood. The effect is of character refracted and ventriloquized by environment, catching as it bounces her longings, frustrations, and disappointments—the ending of an affair, or the ambivalent beginning with a new lover. As the narrator’s persona emerges in all its eccentricity, sometimes painfully and often hilariously, we cannot help but see mirrored there our own fraught desires and limitations, and our own fugitive desire, despite everything, to be known. Shimmering and unusual, Pond demands to be devoured in a single sitting that will linger long after the last page.

Book Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society

Download or read book Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 948 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes lists of members.

Book Illustrated Guide to the Northern  Western  and Southern Islands  and Coast of Ireland

Download or read book Illustrated Guide to the Northern Western and Southern Islands and Coast of Ireland written by Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: