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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 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 Battle of Clonmult

    Book Details:
  • Author : Tom O'Neill MA
  • Publisher : The History Press
  • Release : 2019-10-28
  • ISBN : 0752481029
  • Pages : 240 pages

Download or read book The Battle of Clonmult written by Tom O'Neill MA and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2019-10-28 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exhaustive research by the author of newly available primary source material has unearthed new facts surrounding the battle. The new information allows this edition to more accurately document and analyse the Battle of Clonmult. The book makes an enormous contribution to our understanding of the events surrounding this battle and of the manner in which both sides conducted their military operations during the War of Independence. New insight revealed by the author's research into the details of military operations by both sides is applicable not just to East Cork, but nationally. The information and analysis provided is timely as it increases our awareness of a period in our history which we are currently preparing to recognise and commemorate over the next few years.

Book Murder by the Throat

Download or read book Murder by the Throat written by Edward J. Bourke and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Political Imprisonment and the Irish  1912 1921

Download or read book Political Imprisonment and the Irish 1912 1921 written by William Murphy and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-14 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a revolutionary generation of Irishmen and Irishwomen - including suffragettes, labour activists, and nationalists - imprisonment became a common experience. In the years 1912-1921, thousands were arrested and held in civil prisons or in internment camps in Ireland and Britain. The state's intent was to repress dissent, but instead, the prisons and camps became a focus of radical challenge to the legitimacy and durability of the status quo. Some of these prisons and prisoners are famous: Terence MacSwiney and Thomas Ashe occupy a central position in the prison martyrology of Irish republican culture, and Kilmainham Gaol has become one of the most popular tourist sites in Dublin. In spite of this, a comprehensive history of political imprisonment focused on these years does not exist. In Imprisonment and the Irish, 1912-1921, William Murphy attempts to provide such a history. He seeks to detail what it was like to be a political prisoner; how it smelled, tasted, and felt. More than that, the volume demonstrates that understanding political imprisonment of this period is one of the keys to understanding the Irish revolution. Murphy argues that the politics of imprisonment and the prison conflicts analysed here reflected and affected the rhythms of the revolution, and this volume not only reconstructs and assesses the various experiences and actions of the prisoners, but those of their families, communities, and political movements, as well as the attitudes and reactions of the state and those charged with managing the prisoners.

Book Artisan Stroud

    Book Details:
  • Author : Clare Honeyfield
  • Publisher : History Press
  • Release : 2021-12-17
  • ISBN : 9780750993227
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Artisan Stroud written by Clare Honeyfield and published by History Press. This book was released on 2021-12-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique celebration of contemporary crafts around the Stroud ValleysA beautiful book for lovers of the handmade.

Book Prisoners of War

    Book Details:
  • Author : Liam Ó Duibhir
  • Publisher : Mercier Press
  • Release : 2013
  • ISBN : 9781781170410
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Prisoners of War written by Liam Ó Duibhir and published by Mercier Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ballykinlar Internment Camp was the first mass internment camp to be established by the British in Ireland during the War of Independence. Situated on the County Down coast and opened in December 1920, it became home to hundreds of Irish men arrested by the British, often on little more than the suspicion of involvement in the IRA. Held for up to a year, and subjected to often brutal treatment and poor quality food in an attempt to break them both physically and mentally, the interned men instead established a small community within the camp. The knowledge and skills possessed by the diverse inhabitants were used to teach classes, and other activities, such as sports, drama and music lessons, helped stave off boredom. In the midst of all these activities the internees also endeavoured to defy their captors with various plans for escape. The story of the Ballykinlar internment camp is on the one hand an account of suffering, espionage, murder and maltreatment, but it is also a chronicle of survival, comradeship and community.

Book Fron Goch and the Birth of the IRA

Download or read book Fron Goch and the Birth of the IRA written by Lyn Ebenezer and published by Gwasg Carrech Gwalch. This book was released on 2006 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book England s Greatest Spy

Download or read book England s Greatest Spy written by John J. Turi and published by Stacey International Publishers. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John J. Turi, in his book, England's Greatest Spy, presents startling new evidence to prove that the man who led Ireland throughout most of the 20th century was not a sainted national leader of high purpose and moral principle. Instead, he was an agent for England, subverting Irish aspirations while working diligently to promote English interests in Ireland and America. Rather than lionize de Valera, as a succession of Irish writers have done for more than half a century, Turi puts him in the dock and exposes the ways and means by which every major decision of the Irish President worked to the benefit of England with disastrous results for Ireland. In doing so, Turi sets Irish history on its head. He calls for a reexamination of almost the entire pantheon of 20th century Irish heroes and villains, saints and sinners. His work questions almost every article of faith in the Irish historical canon and answers questions that heretofore have gone unanswered. He challenges beliefs that have gone unchallenged. He poses daunting issues for traditionalist and revisionist alike. England's Greatest Spy is fascinating reading not only for Irish scholars but also for history and mystery buffs everywhere.

Book Toward Combined Arms Warfare

Download or read book Toward Combined Arms Warfare written by Jonathan Mallory House and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1985 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Manuscript Sources for the History of Irish Civilisation

Download or read book Manuscript Sources for the History of Irish Civilisation written by National Library of Ireland and published by Boston : G. K. Hall. This book was released on 1965 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Who s who in the Irish War of Independence and Civil War  1916 1923

Download or read book Who s who in the Irish War of Independence and Civil War 1916 1923 written by Padraic O'Farrell and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work deals with the personalities involved on both sides of the Irish War of Independence and Civil War, listing not only the main activists but many other combatants who played supporting but equally important roles in the conflict. The work draws on both public and private sources, including archives, records and journals of the Royal Irish Constabulary, Dublin Metropolitan Police, Royal Ulster Constabulary, Irish Defence Forces and the British Army. The book refers to interviews conducted by the author with celebrated people who took prominent parts on the national scene as well as minor participants in long-forgotten incidents. The former include Sean MacBride, Pedar O'Donnell, Todd Andrews, General Michael Brennan, Lt Gen M.J. Costello, Colonel Dan Bryan, Sheila Humphreys, Maire Comerford, Liam O'Flaherty, Sean Dowling and close relatives of Sean MacEoin and Ernie O'Malley, whose biographies the author has also written.

Book Slavery by Another Name

Download or read book Slavery by Another Name written by Douglas A. Blackmon and published by Icon Books. This book was released on 2012-10-04 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the mistreatment of black Americans. In this 'precise and eloquent work' - as described in its Pulitzer Prize citation - Douglas A. Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American history - an 'Age of Neoslavery' that thrived in the aftermath of the Civil War through the dawn of World War II. Using a vast record of original documents and personal narratives, Blackmon unearths the lost stories of slaves and their descendants who journeyed into freedom after the Emancipation Proclamation and then back into the shadow of involuntary servitude thereafter. By turns moving, sobering and shocking, this unprecedented account reveals these stories, the companies that profited the most from neoslavery, and the insidious legacy of racism that reverberates today.

Book Ghosts of War

    Book Details:
  • Author : Andrew Ferguson
  • Publisher : The History Press
  • Release : 2016-11-07
  • ISBN : 0750969717
  • Pages : 317 pages

Download or read book Ghosts of War written by Andrew Ferguson and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2016-11-07 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The First World War produced a unique outpouring of prose and poetry depicting the stark realism of a brutal and futile war; no war before or since has been so extensively chronicled nor its misery so exposed. First-hand experiences in the trenches compelled poets such as Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen to write with a resolute honesty, describing events with more feeling and sincerity than the heavily censored letters that were sent home. Accounts of the Great War are typically written from an English perspective, but Ghosts of War encompasses a selection of contributions from across Europe and America, with an emphasis on the Scottish involvement. Using the words of over one hundred poets and writers, Andrew Ferguson recounts the war from its optimistic beginning to its sombre conclusion, bringing the conflict to life in a dramatic, emotive and, at times, humorous way.

Book The 2030 Spike

    Book Details:
  • Author : Colin Mason
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2013-06-17
  • ISBN : 1136555110
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book The 2030 Spike written by Colin Mason and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The clock is relentlessly ticking! Our world teeters on a knife-edge between a peaceful and prosperous future for all, and a dark winter of death and destruction that threatens to smother the light of civilization. Within 30 years, in the 2030 decade, six powerful 'drivers' will converge with unprecedented force in a statistical spike that could tear humanity apart and plunge the world into a new Dark Age. Depleted fuel supplies, massive population growth, poverty, global climate change, famine, growing water shortages and international lawlessness are on a crash course with potentially catastrophic consequences. In the face of both doomsaying and denial over the state of our world, Colin Mason cuts through the rhetoric and reams of conflicting data to muster the evidence to illustrate a broad picture of the world as it is, and our possible futures. Ultimately his message is clear; we must act decisively, collectively and immediately to alter the trajectory of humanity away from catastrophe. Offering over 100 priorities for immediate action, The 2030 Spike serves as a guidebook for humanity through the treacherous minefields and wastelands ahead to a bright, peaceful and prosperous future in which all humans have the opportunity to thrive and build a better civilization. This book is powerful and essential reading for all people concerned with the future of humanity and planet earth.

Book The New York Times Index

Download or read book The New York Times Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Small Wars

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sir Charles Edward Callwell
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1906
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 592 pages

Download or read book Small Wars written by Sir Charles Edward Callwell and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: