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Book The Belligerent Prelate

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  • Author : Patrick Mannix
  • Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • Release : 2011-11-15
  • ISBN : 1443835366
  • Pages : 210 pages

Download or read book The Belligerent Prelate written by Patrick Mannix and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2011-11-15 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an examination and evaluation from a historical perspective of the alliance that was established and forged between the former Taoiseach and President of Ireland, Eamon de Valera, and the former President of Maynooth and Archbishop of Melbourne, Australia, Dr Daniel Mannix. The book will examine how the alliance between the two men played a pivotal role in Ireland’s push for independence. The Archbishop’s role is used as a symbol of the vast Irish diaspora worldwide and how their support, both financially and physically through demonstrations for Ireland, helped keep the push for autonomy alive. Having examined the role the Archbishop played in his alliance with de Valera and the clergy, the book appraises how Dr Mannix, so revered at one stage in Irish society, became such an isolated figure after 1925. Irish history has largely neglected the role of the Archbishop. This historical analysis, grounded in research of both primary and secondary sources including previously undocumented oral evidence, archival papers, written public and private correspondence between the two characters and visual sources, will help to replenish his role.

Book The Kaaterskill Edition of Washington Irving

Download or read book The Kaaterskill Edition of Washington Irving written by Washington Irving and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 946 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ireland and the Great War

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  • Author : Niamh Gallagher
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2019-11-28
  • ISBN : 1786736209
  • Pages : 272 pages

Download or read book Ireland and the Great War written by Niamh Gallagher and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-28 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 4 August 1914 following the outbreak of European hostilities, large sections of Irish Protestants and Catholics rallied to support the British and Allied war efforts. Yet less than two years later, the Easter Rising of 1916 allegedly put a stop to the Catholic commitment in exchange for a re-emphasis on the national question. In Ireland and the Great War Niamh Gallagher draws upon a formidable array of original research to offer a radical new reading of Irish involvement in the world's first total war. Exploring the 'home front' and Irish diasporic communities in Canada, Australia, and Britain, Gallagher reveals that substantial support for the Allied war effort continued largely unabated not only until November 1918, but afterwards as well. Rich in social texture and with fascinating new case studies of Irish participation in the conflict, this book has the makings of a major rethinking of Ireland's twentieth century.

Book The Byzantine empire  pt  1  A D  716 1057

Download or read book The Byzantine empire pt 1 A D 716 1057 written by George Finlay and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A History of Greece  from its Conquest by the Romans to the Present Time  B  C  146 to 1864

Download or read book A History of Greece from its Conquest by the Romans to the Present Time B C 146 to 1864 written by Henry Fanshawe Tozer and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-06-20 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.

Book A History of Greece

Download or read book A History of Greece written by George Finlay and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mannix

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  • Author : Brenda Niall
  • Publisher : Text Publishing
  • Release : 2015-03-25
  • ISBN : 1925095118
  • Pages : 463 pages

Download or read book Mannix written by Brenda Niall and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2015-03-25 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2016 Australian Literature Society’s Gold Medal and the National Biography Award. Daniel Mannix, Archbishop of Melbourne from 1917 until his death, aged ninety-nine, in 1963, was a towering figure in Melbourne's Catholic community. But his political interventions had a profound effect on the wider Australian nation too. Award-winning biographer Brenda Niall has made some unexpected discoveries in Irish and Australian archives which overturn some widely held views. She also draws on her own memories of meeting and interviewing Mannix to get to the essence of this man of contradictions, controversies and mystery. Mannix is not only an astonishing new look at a remarkable life, but a fascinating depiction of Melbourne in the first half last century. Brenda Niall is one of Australia’s foremost biographers. She is the author of five award-winning biographies, including her acclaimed accounts of the Boyd family. In 2016 she won the Australian Literature Society’s Gold Medal and the National Biography Award for Mannix. Brenda has degrees from the University of Melbourne, the Australian National University and Monash University. In 2004 she was awarded the Order of Australia for ‘services to Australian literature, as an academic, biographer and literary critic’. She frequently reviews for the Age, Sydney Morning Herald and Australian Book Review. ‘For readers interested in the political and cultural life of Australia during the first half of the 20th century, Niall’s highly readable biography will reward handsomely.’ Books & Publishing ‘With characteristic insight, sensitivity, and tact, Niall confirms that Daniel Mannix is a major, if elusive, figure in the modern history of Australia, Ireland, and the Catholic Church...a balanced and convincing account of Mannix’s life and times.’ Australian Book Review ‘Brenda Niall’s central challenge was to uncover the personal face of Mannix from his public speeches...She does this modestly and penetratingly.’ Catholic News ‘This is the best life of Mannix we have...Writing from inside the Melbourne Catholic experience, Brenda Niall shows how people’s affection for Mannix muted their criticisms of him—even if they knew better.’ Global Pulse ‘I should say that I expected to take my time over this biography, as I usually do, reading a chapter every other day. But not so, I could not put it down.’ ANZ LitLovers ‘For my money, Brenda Niall’s Mannix is the most wise, shrewd and elegant biography yet produced of this complex and beguiling man. Niall’s irresistible prose strengthens the candour of this fine book.’ Age ‘Calmly magisterial...Niall gives a sense of Mannix’s greatness and of why we can still be awed by him.’ Australian ‘An extraordinary man and an extraordinary book.’ Weekly Times ‘Among living Australian biographers, only Philip Ayres matches Brenda Niall for painstaking research serving narratives at once spirited and judicious.’ Spectator ‘This book is the work of a master of the art of biography...Gripping.’ Irish Echo ‘A fond and fluent life of Mannix that captures the crispness and the passion, the humour and the enigma of the man who meddled with politics like a master magician.’ Sydney Review of Books ‘[Niall] has written a generous and penetrating biography.’ Madonna Magazine

Book The Makers of Venice

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  • Author : Margaret Oliphant
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1887
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 462 pages

Download or read book The Makers of Venice written by Margaret Oliphant and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A History of Greece  The Byzantine empire  pt  1  A D  716 1057

Download or read book A History of Greece The Byzantine empire pt 1 A D 716 1057 written by George Finlay and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book THE MAKERS OF VENICE

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  • Author : MRS. OLIPHANT
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1893
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 492 pages

Download or read book THE MAKERS OF VENICE written by MRS. OLIPHANT and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Reconquest Kings of Portugal

Download or read book The Reconquest Kings of Portugal written by S. Lay and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-11-28 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the political development of Portugal between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries. Taking place amid the struggle between Christendom and the Islamic world for control over the Iberian Peninsula, the formation of Portugal also depended on the growing European influence felt throughout the peninsula during these centuries.

Book History of the Byzantine empire

Download or read book History of the Byzantine empire written by George Finlay and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A HISTORY OF GREECE FROM ITS CONQUEST BY THE ROMANX TO THE PRESENT TIME

Download or read book A HISTORY OF GREECE FROM ITS CONQUEST BY THE ROMANX TO THE PRESENT TIME written by GEORGE FINLAY and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History of the Byzantine and Greek Empires

Download or read book History of the Byzantine and Greek Empires written by George Finlay and published by Edinburgh : W. Blackwood. This book was released on 1854 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Classics and Celtic Literary Modernism

Download or read book Classics and Celtic Literary Modernism written by Gregory Baker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-02-03 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celtic modernism had a complex history with classical reception. In this book, Gregory Baker examines the work of W. B. Yeats, James Joyce, David Jones and Hugh MacDiarmid to show how new forms of modernist literary expression emerged as the evolution of classical education, the insurgent power of cultural nationalisms and the desire for transformative modes of artistic invention converged across Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Writers on the 'Celtic fringe' sometimes confronted, and sometimes consciously advanced, crudely ideological manipulations of the inherited past. But even as they did so, their eccentric ways of using the classics and its residual cultural authority animated new decentered idioms of English - literary vernaculars so fragmented and inflected by polyglot intrusion that they expanded the range of Anglophone literature and left in their wake compelling stories for a new age.

Book A History of Greece from its conquest by the Romans to the present time

Download or read book A History of Greece from its conquest by the Romans to the present time written by and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Makers of Venice

Download or read book The Makers of Venice written by Margaret Oliphant and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-11 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engaging 1887 account of the cultural development of Venice through vibrant biographical sketches of key figures.